and studio's scott sperling, thl partners coco-president. he's the good sperling we have today. i'm kidding. i love gene. in the futures this morning, they're indicated a little bit higher. you can see the nasdaq is down. once again, the eu -- we had some really successful companies over here in the united states. anyway, check out the price of oil at this hour. it is not doing a lot today. it's up 29 cents to $47.28. plus interest. let's get a live update on the situation. julia joins us with more from brussels. >> reporter: good morning, wilfred. as you quite rightly said, and that's not fair. guys? >> what was the takeaway from that? was she saying the fault in terms of who wasn't playing by the rules was more the irish or apple? and who's the blame on and also you asked her about with this based on past situations or current situations with irish tax law regarding apple today? >> reporter: yeah. it's a great question, wilfred. and i did ask it whether or not she believed they've acted appropriately now. to look at the arrangements they set up. basically giving apple unfair c

willows still is scott sperling. where are the ipo's?p after the beginning of this year. traditional exit? >> when you have a strong particularly ones that are in industries that have strong tailwinds, what you are looking at is a set of good alternatives. that alternative may include a public offering or it may be that there is a sale of a company either in whole or in part. a company like inventive where we think there is spectacular growth going forward, we like to own a large chunk of that. we could've done that through an ipo where we would have sold 30% or so to the public and used that for deleveraging or there are certain advantages to keeping a company private tickling when it has such phenomenal growth potential. have company private, particularly, when it has such phenomenal growth potential. there is a narrative out there and it says you guys are not going public anymore because you won't get the valuation that you would get in private markets. it are talking about a bubble in technology and private markets. are you pushing b