marcelo claure is the ceo of sprint and he joins us from overland park, kansas. ave you, marcelo. i called a urge in of your in -- a number of your investors to talk about the quarter, get their sense. all they wanted to talk about is the possibility of consolidation in the industry so let's start there. then let's move on to the quarter. and get this out of the way. you were on the call. you even said some things about it in terms of the potential of doing acquisitions and being open to it. how likely though do you think it is that sprint will be able to do a deal with the likes of a t-mobile or perhaps something else in the industry that many do expect needs or will have some consolidation? >> well, thanks for having me. it's always a pleasure to talk with everybody right after earnings. well, consolidation is definitely the hot topic. you know, especially after sprint has created a lot of shareholder value in the first two years of our turn around. you know, we are -- we're open to many different options. we're exploring different alternatives. we're in the mar

marcelo claure say they're fully engaging in a wide array of possibilities over these next few weeks,ck only up 7 cents. that was a big market cap loss for them yesterday. >> oh, yeah. look, t-mobile turned out on to the star of the show. sprint took everybody down. i understand you're absolutely right, they have a lot of enthusiasm. but it was too much magic box. we don't want to see the magic box. we want to see them taking a lot of share from at&t and from verizon. we didn't get that, david. that's been the way you move your stock up. is to take share and keep it. >> all right. guys, dow is basically flat. paris remains up by more than a percent. let's get to bob pisani on the floor. >> good morning, carl, happy thursday, everyone. very tight trading range. this is the story all week for the last couple of weeks, but europe, carl is right. europe is breaking out. not just france here. we have had a good day in germany. germany is poised to close at another historic high today. we had very good european services im, they were at a six year high. that set a record high. the euro is a