the last six or nine months, we have seen the dollar weakened so the message to the currency market buspar get too concerned about perfectionism just yet. otherwise i would think we would see a stronger dollar. the dollar has backed up a little bit but we haven't seen the dollar really skyrocket. rightasn't happened since before trump was elected. betty: is that a function of confidence and not seeing a trade war? or isn't that more of a situation where it is about euro strength and yen strength? chris: i think it is a combination of those things. euro in 2017 surprised people with the french elections that were a big cause for risk premiums to drop in europe which is a good thing for the euro as a currency. but it is a lot about the dollar and what is going on in the u.s., trade included. i don't think you can discount the u.s. portion of the factor that is driving some of those costs. yvonne: chris, thank you for joining us. coming up, we continue on the andout from these tariffs speak to achieve china economist of a trade war between washington and beijing. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ 8:00 a