o. speculation that took place leading into those contracts i felt last year seventy five hundred should have been the top four because when i underestimated the kind of full blown exuberance people will have by the fact out of wall street discovering in the price went all the way to twenty thousand i mean i was trying to predict that each step of the way and the data futures launched people realize that hey it's not that big a deal the volume on the futures while increasing every week is still pretty small they're also cash saddled and because they're cash saddled they shouldn't have much of a fast on the underlying price of bitcoin it's not like the gold futures where the futures themselves are price discovery for gold futures on big coin are more like the s. and p. five hundred futures they don't really have an effect on the underlying stocks of the s. and p. five hundred so i see it as the same way and it wasn't dot big of a deal after they launched and it's great because now the big question is definitely more legit to all of the average person that is thinking should i get in shoul

the u.s..o in takeover speculation in the session after ingenico was a target.ldman saying it is ahead of estimates and finally, card factory. this is a small cap full-year adjusted pretax was above estimates. growth likely to be limited, but it does see a special dividend. you balance the positive and negative and it seems to be positive on balance for the start -- stock today. thank you, nejra cehic. earnings season about to kick off. we're heading into the 10th year of a bull market. earnings continue to underpin the case for buying but after recent declines in global equities, stocks are no longer priced to perfection. hightations are quite going into the reporting season and there is a lot at stake as volatility continues to climb. let's talk to dani burger. me through what predictions are and expectations going into the earnings season. a lot of superlatives here. earnings per share, 12 months forward is about the highest since 2008. in the u.s., earnings expected the best since 2 -- 2011. one of the remarkable things we have seen is how much optimists --

told by diplomats and of course it was mike pompei o in one of his final days as cia director who made that secret trip to pyongyang diplomats are speculated to me that that no longer became secret and was leaked by the trumpet ministration maybe to help mr pompei o who had rather a rocky passage through his confirmation he has now been confirmed in the last few hours as the secretary of state that may have been the reason that we got the leak of that secret trip pictures of that the secret trip as he was confirmed were also released from the white house pictures showing supreme leader kim not smiling as you see him in today's pictures looking a lot more stern it's also worth telling you that the north korean public know about this meeting taking place now and they will later on speak see the pictures but what they've not yet been prepared for is that meeting between kim and trump if it does go ahead and the talk is in that statement again a matter of weeks for it to go ahead so they are still keeping to this time shuttle of may or early june for that meeting and there's going to have to be quite a difficult. tricky job for the north korea

o. j. us used, and you think after all the speculation about trump's relationship with russia mully come up with goose eggs. team trump is proper low worryd that mueller is using the southern sdrekt of new york as a proks tow do their dirty work. have the new york agents vacuum stuff in cohen's files on the president's personal business deals outside the skoecht jurisdiction. and then shoot it over to us if it is helpful to our cause and going after the president. mueller gets credit for going to rod the deputy attorney general the information. he gets none of down side being the guy who executed the search warranty against the president's personal attorney. never happened before. last summer president trump said that the effort any effort by the feds to lock in his personal finances is, uh-uh. >> locking at your finance s and family's finances. >> that would be a breech of what his -- i would say, yes. later >> laura: the process is out of control this is yet statute is uninstitutional. you think about it this way. mueller's office resides within the executive branch. that means if he want

his trip is sparking speculation that -- he is considering a challenge against president trump. host: what is the reception to delmon?o -- gentleman? guest: with o'malley, i think curiosity. by liberals, as to what will be different, he was going to be the liberal alternative to hillary clinton back in 2014-2015. he was going to be the want to give hillary clinton the fight. we know the script did not play out that way. bernie sanders captured the excitement and momentum on the left. i think a lot of us are wondering what will be different for martin o'malley? maybe he will tell us in this speech. he was up here three times last year helping democrats who were running in state elections. he was doing that all over the country. he has really been working hard on the campaign churl across the country helping democrats in 2017 and early 2018 as they recaptured a lot of those seats in new hampshire and across the country. is -- ich, but the key think he is saying, stay tuned, we are not farley from 2020. maybe he was to make sure his coalition is still together. if he decides to make that primary challenge. listen, this i

much trust donald trump has in mike pompei o but it certainly is an unconventional choice certainly stunned the international community but many also are speculating that maybe this was the right choice after all given the fact that this meeting has been shrouded in mystery the fact that this meeting between kim jong un and donald trump is set to take place likely late may early june the other thing is that many respects this was likely an intelligence gathering effort as well so when you combine all of these factors and if you will say that it does seem to make a little bit of sense and kimberly how is this then going to impact the talks today with the japanese prime minister. well it certainly isn't helping an already nervous japanese sort of contingency that here are. the sort of diplomats that are gathered here given the fact that they've been feeling that they have been sidelined by the united states you have to remember that japan has always been america's recent history top ally they've typically the united states has consulted japan in advance of these type of meetings and what's happened this time is that wasn't the case so certainly the

two there's been much speculation as to why he quit just to see was leaving his position it came to light that he'd upset washington by encouraging iraq to become a member of the o p c w which would have meant iraq having to destroy all of its chemical weapons that was apparently viewed as an obstacle to the u.s. intention to engage in military action in iraq in an open letter supporting bustani many activists demanded to put world peace of u.s. unilateralism there was one man who was particularly against as a personality being obese e w chief john bolton who at the time was the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now just recently been appointed as the us national security advisor to take up that position surely as it was stanley says his intentions to make iraq a member of the group stood in the way of u.s. ambitions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i had his structures two through to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney the vice preside

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speculation mounting. 17%, nearly 18% currently. a look at what is happening in the index. what do we have? this is the situation, near 1% near hong kong. seeing the price being dictated .os up power assets holding down 11%. that is one of the reasons they have been downgraded. there we have it. down.ng seng a decline of 1.8%. haidi: the markets having a difficult time today. china taking a major step towards singh the likes of alibaba and others back at home. thatis the trial program would allow company shares to be bought and sold in mainland markets. this is an exception when it comes to the rules. a deal in china and elsewhere might be a realistic option. how far away from this becoming a reality, john? think it has just released the new rules a few days ago. waitingy, we are still for some rules to be further released. hope it will be in a few months time. haidi: is there a concern that this essentially brings these companies back to the closer scrutiny of the government, of beijing? >> i think, traditionally, people have been using the , even in hong kong. debates still a lot of of how the structure should be validated. under the new rules, it seems like they will