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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Plott. Stocks are higher, thirteen minutes to go

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Speaker 1: ETF report. I'm Catherine Calderie. You're listening to taking Stock

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Speaker 1: with pim Box and kapoleen As on Bloomberg Radio. If

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Speaker 1: next guest, Bob Doll. He is chief equity strategist for

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Speaker 1: Nouvene Asset Management and he joins US now from Chicago. Bob,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for being with us. UM explain

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Speaker 1: your reasoning here that if we avoid a Brexit vote

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Speaker 1: but the conditions have to be right. Brexit is one

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Speaker 1: saw the low in the one fifties for the ten

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Speaker 1: Bob Doll. We always prefer having you on our show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chief Equities to Aratagies for Nuvine asset management.

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