. >> for a closer look at the market impact defending, let's bring in brian belski and barry bannisterntlemen. brian, it is this a market event at all >> no, i don't think so. i think the market still is very poised here in the last week of the quarter in terms of repositioning. we had a little bit of window dressing last week i think the market is still very, very concerned with respect to what's going to happen with earnings in the first quarter. i think investors have learned that politics are events on a short-term basis but fundamentals drive stocks, and, you know, people are a little bit near term worried about what the bond market is saying. we think those worries are overblown, by the way. >> why >> well, first off, from a fundamental perspective, david, earnings have gone down too much, and we have a model that we've used for over 20 years at seas fy $2 earnings went down to historic lows in january and february meaning all the lemmings, analysts dropped their numbers at the same time, and now we've seen numbers start to tick up a little bit on a relative and absolute basis co