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Speaker 1: taking Stock. I'm Kathleen Hayes along with Pim Fox. We're

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Speaker 1: you Kathleen. Let us begin with crude oil stocks are fluctuating,

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Speaker 1: equities struggling for direction today as investors step back to

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Speaker 1: Charlie from the Bloomberg news room. I'm Alex Steel. Donald

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Speaker 1: and again recaving a mixed picture for stocks. The Dow

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Speaker 1: robust malls. Rachel, We talked to Tom McGee this week.

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Speaker 1: want to be closer to urban centers. So they don't

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