t.j. rodgers.rsation paul hickey is still with uls and ali mccartney joins the conversation as well mike, i come to you first. with the internals, only slight declines on the surface but a couple of other cracks on the surface, including the vix picking up a bit. >> yeah, the vix did bounce up sometimes that's a monday effect after markets be closed for the weekend. it's just a market that really is in the very short term in a lull today was basically a push between the bulls and the bears. the s&p has had this pattern of finishing higher than it opened almost every day so there still seems to be net demand to be involved, even though the market does look somewhat overbought technically even though it seems equity exposures are pretty high so i think that's where we get these opposing currents on a day like today before we're expecting a big rush of economic and earnings news, you get a little bit of a lull. >> ali, what do you expect for earnings season? >> we link the market is very biased to the