rates and get president trump's administration to talk more about deregula key, so expectations for bankses like bb&t since earnings ended, but this, too, is is tentative. ownership of bank std not a lo of confidence in the trump agenda at the moment. that's the biggest problem b. another sign, sever sub sectors that have been beaten up this year e starting to show signs of life and they may provide new leadership in august and september. for example, at&t and verizon have been great and the retailers like target and gap are finally starting to get over their amazon funk. see if we can pull out another rally for the third quarter. i'm bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. >> now, to washington where it seems the trump administration wants to g on china. over its trade practices. multiple reports say the white house will open an investigatio privacy policies, which require american and foreign companies who want to break into the c chinese market to share their beijing. it's believed the move is to force china over north korea's nuclear program. it could result in tariffs or other penal

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