coming up in july, a jobs report next week as well and a fed policy decision joining me now is mark tepperoseph fami. a roundtable, if you will, a tribunal of markets. because you're in studio, joe, let's start with you the markets as they are set up now, should we be at record highs and are record highs to come >> i think the market will head higher for four main reasons, technicals, fundamentals, interest rates and sentiment of course we'll have the normal pullbacks and corrections along the way, as long as the big institutions support this market, as long as the fed is giving us an interest rate environment, i would stick with the trend. >> the fed is a big part of that story, but the fed is always going to be a part of it earnings a driver of this as well this earnings season shaped up more tepid than previous ones is that slowing earnings momentum a cause for worry for you and your clients? >> actually, you know, earnings season, so far so good everything has been better than feared so we're seeing lots of companies right now beating and raising. analysts were expecting an earnings co