Going to be up at the open. It would appear at least judging from the futures. European markets have had more or less reasonably decent day. Good, love to see it again. Thanks everybody. Thats going to be a constant now. You see the one outlier is the ftse 100 in the uk. 10year note yield and crude oil, crude was a story yesterday going down, 10year note yield around 1. 5 and now crude up a bit but did seem to take the market down a bit yesterday. As it weakened in the session. Alibaba reporting its earnings this morning and they did top estimates. Overall revenues were up 59 year over year. Gross merchandise volume jumped 24 . Joe tsai is the executive vice chairman of alibaba and he joins us now from hong kong. Its always nice to have you, joe. Theres a long delay, i should let our viewers know. I will talk and then you talk. Not sure were going to be able to talk back and forth as much as we might want to. Let me start with this, joe. Of course a very strong quarter. You did report
Stop. How is spain doing your ask, italy doing . We dont have it today. Oh, my gosh. My kids are there, the italian gdp is going to come out. Come on, guys. We were lower in europe. Back to the big three. The joke has been the last few days weve included spain and italy, not that they are inside joke. Thank you. When the show starts. Yeah. Im sorry. Were in the show. Okay. 10year note yield hanging around 1. 5, where its been. Were a bit below that today and wti had been up there was a rally when for some reason people believed the saudis or their jawboning. To our road map this morning and it does start with the markets. The dow, s p, nasdaq closing at record highs yesterday. Where do we go from here in big Retail Stocks on the move this morning after some earnings. We also got overall retail sales. We will break down the busy week for the sector and go live to rio, of course. You saw carl, the u. S. Racking up a lot of medals. Carl is talking to the athletes and will have a lot of go