get more detail on this and turn over to our financial correspondent score to in new york they his wacom yes china and the u.s. began jointly with tariffs last friday at dawn what's been the response on wall street so far. well not what you would have expected what street is gaining quite a bit just on monday wood chips were up by about three hundred twenty points so well first of all those tariffs that kicked in on friday did not come by surprise and then also if you look at adrenaline civilly in comparison with the total size of the u.s. economy they're relatively small sort of resource on wall street here are looking for other reasons to buy or sell shares and this week earnings season will actually start by the end of the week with the quarterly results of the big u.s. a financial institution and overall analysts expect that earnings of the big u.s. corporations will grow by a pretty strong two any percent so this is one reason for the strength of corporate america why investors started to buy shares and then talking about buying shares the companies themselves are buying back their

awhile very own financial correspondent paul brit's standing by there he is at the frankfurt skyline wacom what other u.s. business is during the ongoing trade think one surprising excels fall what's the good news for microsoft. yeah funny microsoft is back in the game of tech giant to come come up here to the skyline to get the better look because it is the cloud business that is driving microsoft revenues and also profits revenues in the cloud business are eighty eighty nine percent up in the past quarter net profit rose ten percent and surprisingly also p.c. sales which have been not so great in past are up this quarter so is sales from office products and linked in and all that in an environment work growth for technology companies has been difficult only yesterday a.s.a.p. gave out good quarterly results also growing the business but investors weren't stoked about that microsoft now broke the mold and actually gained for almost four percent in trading after wall street closed yesterday just very briefly please if you could what do things look like in a much more global scale. are thos