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Kate Moore joins us now in our Bloomberg 1130 studio.

She's Black Rocks Chief Equity

Strategist. Let's start with the Fed. We're looking ahead to this meeting

next week. Give us a sense here of just sort of how the market is preparing for

what seems like a likely increase in rates next week.

I have to say that the signals we got from yelling last seems like a likely increase in rates next week.

I have to say that the signals we got from Yellen last week were pretty encouraging

from our perspective.

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