harvard economics professor ken rogoff u.s. representative robert lighthizer says a deal with china is not yet certain retail stocks, bright spot tjx. speaking of earnings we're awaiting results from hewlett packard and l brands senior vice president of wealth management and senior portfolio manager at ubs first we will start with mike santoli. it was a narrow trading range. >> it was. >> here today despite all these major potentially market-moving events. >> on a market-wide basis it was really idling. over the last seven trading days, the mark has not moved as much as three-quarters of one percent as far as the s&p and smaller moves typically. people are watching it as bob mentioned, though, there's a lot of push/pull within the markets health insurers going down, retail up today. it is a little more of opposing currents keeping the indexes in place for the moment anyway. >> jim, what did you make of today's action and intra-day chart looking quite encouraging, recovering off the lows from earlier in the day. >> it's very rep