tom: gina martin adams joins us now, chief equity strategist at bloomberg intelligence. ent our revenues in earnings for american companies? gina: not great, honestly. we continue to see evidence that it more than a year ago on adjusted basis. we will continue argan and whether the economy is in a recession, it is clear that the earnings cycle pete and is experiencing a downdraft -- we will continue to argue whether the economy is in a recession and it is clear the earnings cycle peaked and is in a downdraft. the market itself has shown signs of bottoming since october lows. looking at the earnings stream, it is all about inflation. revenue is still throwing year-over-year, in particular thanks to the energy sector where we are getting energy growth, high oil prices and energy prices at large. it is about inflation impacting margins. tom: just on one transaction reported by bloomberg and it is reported that danna her medical -- danaher medical maybe having a transaction we have talked about this before, with all of this going on, is it going to be a premium of well-run co