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Speaker 1: up to date on what's going on with the stock

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Speaker 1: market today? Rising actually on report OPEC has reached a

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Speaker 1: deal to curb production. We've seen headlines like this before.

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Speaker 1: Very happy welcome back to this show. Jack Avenin, Chief

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Speaker 1: investment Officer for BMO Private Bank. So Jack, let's start

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Speaker 1: with the latest on OPEC. It seems to me that

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the latest news? And I guess,

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Speaker 1: even more importantly, how important is this the stock market? Well,

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Speaker 1: And UM, historically, or at least over the last couple

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Speaker 1: an agreement certainly boosting oil prices, and that's turned stocks

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Speaker 1: incentives to try to make other businesses, but also they

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Speaker 1: have to set aside a lot of capital. What's your

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Speaker 1: get an infest rate increase. Well, I do think, uh,

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Speaker 1: ultimately the higher short term interest rates will ultimately you

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Speaker 1: once the you know, the the all the confetti has

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Speaker 1: Are you on the sidelines? Are you have you moved

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Speaker 1: election results, depending on what they are. Is it best

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Speaker 1: just to be defensive right now? Well, it really depends

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Speaker 1: I suppose, Um, we do have a fair sizeable cash position.

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Speaker 1: It's been kind of a you know, burning a hole

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