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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. Stock still remain law, but the SMP

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking Stock with Pim Box and Kathleen

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Speaker 1: Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. Where is the stock market going

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Speaker 1: next as it waits for the big jobs report on Friday?

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Speaker 1: stocks right now. Scott Clemmens joins us here in our

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Speaker 1: Welcome Scott, Thank you, Kathleen. Happy summer it's here, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Big time? Big time? Well, you know, uh, this summer

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Speaker 1: But corporate earnings, you know, if you look at them broadly,

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Speaker 1: have not Certainly some companies performing well. This is one

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