liz: you've got the vaneck etf that's what, in a holding pattern, correct?e you waiting on, regulatory approval? >> yes. we are waiting finally for regulators to approve a bitcoin etf which would bring digital assets under the regulated american capital market. i think this could be for the next decade the driver of our economy. we have seen president trump and then govern or carney and treasury secretary mnuchin talking about digital assets and cryptocurrency being sort of a negative thing. i would like to challenge them to think about it another way. this may be the driver -- a driver to innovate and rebuild america's payment in capital markets. liz: you have warren buffett calling it rat poison 2.0. and you have a lot of people concerned about this. what is the number one thing you would like to say to our viewers who still aren't sold on it? >> i wanted to say first that they should read the research paper that the vaneck research team, my boss and i put out to market. we describe there how bitcoin, specifically bitcoin, not other digital assets, can reb

positivity with regard to technology and communications services, check out semiconductor stocks this vaneck ticker is up over a percent today. near its best levels of the session. if you take a look at this etf, it's up 42% since the lows that we saw back in december of last year, up 19% over the last couple of months and we are seeing about almost a three-day winning streak here for this etf semiconductors, a positive sign in this down market. if you're looking for the stock of the day, the best performer in the s&p 500, it's tobacco on the international side of things phillip morris international, up 10%. look at that stock surge up here earnings better. sales better forecast better. and all because of, or not all because of, in large part that smokeless kind of like combustible, noncombustible product that they have internationally. it's approved for the u.s. now we'll see what that does for their bottom line. phillip morris international, stock of the day >> we'll see you in a few minutes. >>> america, you have a lot to digest out there and to think about around these markets earnings,