decker told me he still wants to go after diy customers.iving that up just trying to be strategic taking advantage of both pools of customers and the pros, like i said, more reliable because they're not as likely to not do a project because of the weather or other factors like that. >> and keep coming back. i mean, diy person might do their project and be done for the next five years. the contractor's going to be coming back, because that's their business over and over again. >> exactly let me ask you this question -- you mentioned an acquisition certainly one way home depot can expand from the contractor market, but how do you do that i take your point. when i go to a home depot you see people clearly professionals. but they're not there buying for the full job they're there because they're short of a few pieces of lumber. maybe they need some drywall spackle or whatever. >> exactly, so how do you take that person and lure them away from the classic building supply company that they've been doing business for years >> it's a whole new musc

decker is fantastic. >> page one of "the ft" this morning is about q1 m&a blockbuster deals. >> the night was so remarkable, and they're saying the credit market are going to be great. this kind of -- the takeover market is going to be great. it was an extraordinary quarter, and that's going to be the beginning of what i think is going to be some amazing quarters from a lot of the companies in the banking business, because there's so many deals read that jeffries quarter, people that's an amazing quarter they put together richard handler. >> and, of course, financial earnings for q1, not that far away as we wrap up q1 today. let's get the opening bell at the big board, it's elta md, a colgate palmolive brand. at the nasdaq, a clinical stage oncology company celebrating its ipo. jim, we try to hang on to double-digit gains for the year so far >> what can i say? the broad nature of it is really extraordinary. i think that one of the -- i tell you, one of the question marks is, will amazon be the company that is -- of the magnificent eight, as you retweeted this morning the reason i sa

the ceo ted decker talking about how one of their three goals for the year has been to grow that sharegest opportunities. the other goals they have is to build more stores and continue to grow comps by having better service for customers and taking out some of the friction along the way. as a result, decker is now saying that they are looking at their total of addressable market growing from $950 billion to a trillion dollars. he says that number is conservative in their estimates. said it will be a complementary accelerator with home improvement and the pro remodeling they expect this deal to close by the end of the year regulators likely to take a look at it. but we will see. there is a breakup fee associated with it that they have not disclosed yet it will be with the s.e.c. filing later today we're going to be speaking with an analyst in just a few minutes about that deal. >>> fed governor christopher waller suggesting that the federal reserve could cut fewer times this year and start later as a result of stronger than expected growth. also inflation data so far this year let's fin