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Speaker 2: you'll find us. Geopolitical news coming out of Ukraine and Russia.

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Speaker 2: Russia is willing to discuss a temporary Trucian truth in Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: provided there is progress toward a final peace settlement. That's

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Speaker 2: according to people familiar with the matter in Moscow. Let's

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Speaker 2: come more reporting on that. Ross Mathis and joins us

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg News Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa,

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Speaker 2: Ros What do you make of this news coming from

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Speaker 3: How significant could it be?

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Speaker 4: Well, it is significant, As you were saying, we've had

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Speaker 4: the exclusive information that Vladimir Putin has indicated is open

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Speaker 4: It was conveyed that meeting that was held in Saudi

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Speaker 4: and the possibility after that of a direct meeting perhaps

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Speaker 4: this really indicates is that Vladimir Putin does is amenable

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Speaker 5: To looking at a sea spa in Ukraine.

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Speaker 4: He just wants to understand how that fits into the

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Speaker 4: so he's got some conditions there that we've reported in

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Speaker 6: So we just spoke quite a bit about potential peace

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Speaker 6: Zelenski and Europe been on this potential seaspire.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Again, this may serve to feed concerns that Ukraine is

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Speaker 4: Zelinsky express regret for how things went down in that

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Speaker 4: because again the concern is, does this get driven very

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Speaker 3: Hi, Roz, thank you so much. We appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: Roz Matheson, Bloomberg News Director for Europe, the Middle East

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Speaker 2: and Africa, on President Putin said to be ready to

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Speaker 2: These markets are up there down and that's just in

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Speaker 3: Washington, DC. Emily Rowland, she.

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Speaker 2: Gets paid to do this stuff, co chief investment strategist

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Speaker 2: at John Hancock Investment Management up there in Boston. Emily,

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Speaker 2: how do you kind of put all these cross currents?

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Speaker 2: Also in studio on Fridays. This is getting It's not.

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Speaker 2: us again here in studio and a story that quite

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Speaker 2: frankly concerns me. Nastak joins Exchange is seeking to offer

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Speaker 3: I don't know, is it tell us about this, Paul, I.

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Speaker 9: Don't know if you need to be concerned right away.

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Speaker 9: So Nasdaq gave some indication that they don't expect this

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Speaker 8: Just be like no closing bill at four o'clock. That's

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Speaker 9: It could because I think about it, think about it,

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Speaker 8: It's a different market structure. But it's funny.

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Speaker 8: We've been doing this and come along. The water is warm.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, we'll see it's progress. You can't stand

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Speaker 6: You need to shows the guy who doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: John and I were just talking about this. Boy, things

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Speaker 10: So the concentration in the equity markets has been a

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Speaker 11: But we have to see it in the earnings.

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