. >> we like gw pharma but it's part of the cannabis cohort and being pulled down and still too earlynew york. sue. >> caller: hi, jim first-time caller, longtime listener huge fan. >> thank you. >> caller: i love you so i was listening to cnbc last month and i happened to catch an interview with dr. athena from turning point therapeutics. >> turning point is a very big speculative situation. most wouldn't know the dishes them them and turning point wine so do home work before you pull the trigger. adam in pennsylvania a . >> caller: hey, this is adam from philly. i have a question on an oil and gas company. they're awful? >> they won't make the playoffs. owen in hawaii owen >> caller: hey, boo-yah, jim this is concerning o r. dichlt -- e iridium. >> i like it >> caller: can i please ask about capital corp >> no, this is another one we justice department don't know what's inside. it has debt that we don't understand so we're not going to touch it and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of "the lightning round." >> announcer: "the lightning round" is sponsored by td ameritrad

gw pharma, people think it's a cannabis stock. it really isn't. think that one, at least double from here is one. the -- charles: do you think a regular biotech company would make a bid for them to have access to that sort of cannabis -- >> biotech company, or more than likely a big health care company for sure. i think that is, easy takeover. charles: all the other ones. i want to get david. i want to find out are you surprised at death of major deals? is it about buying back your own stock? could we see this all change? >> certainly four-month ago we were talking being on edge of recession, yield curve inversion, the fed had to start cutting rates. that put a pause in a lot of company as plans to get bigger. we gotten past the soft patch. fed is on pause because of a better economy. stock market back to all-time highs. i think we could play catch-up for next six months. i agree with you for m&a activity. my sector is electronic component and distributors. we've already seen strategic buyers. we've seen private equity jump into the game. apollo,

where it could become and continue to be a major exporter as it already is by way of one company, gw pharmafe, and the impact would fall heavily on female employees. the contracts mean unpaid breaks, changes to night shift payments and being called to work at shorter notice. asda said it brings it into line with rivals and most of the 100,000 staff affected will be better off. tesco has today announced it will remove one billion pieces of plastic from products for sale in uk stores by the end of 2020 as a part of its 4r's plan to tackle the use of plastics in its business. they will include small plastic bags, plastic ready meal trays, additional lids on yogurt pots and plastic packaging for clothes. and the tv streaming war heats up today as apple launches its tv plus service here as part of its roll out to 100 countries. apple hopes to take on market leader netflix — and rivals hulu and amazon. the morning show — a tv news drama — is among eight new series commissioned for the apple launch. let's check in with the financial markets now and the blue chip ftse100 has been trading slightly h