up, however you can, for the foster kids who need it most— at helpfosterchildren.com it's to bob pa sani. >> three-to-one advancing on the new york stock exchange. on a point basis, it's a good open we start with staples, healthcare, utilities were strong now we're seeing more cyclical names, energy and bank stocks, you need to see that to move forward. it's not very surprising yesterday we talked about that samsung announcement, potential disruptions at their plant in xian, micron has come out with essentially the same thing here. there are obviously localized issues whether this broadens is not clt now. but that's certainly a little bit of an early warning sign you see most of the major semiconductors on the weak side. just take a look at buybacks, see today on my trader talk.cnbc.com. this is a historic record for buyback, $850 billion, the old record 2018, $806 billion. the question is, not buybacks, is do they reduce the share counts lower share count means higher earnings per share that's what you want to do when you buy back stock unfortunately the overall evidence is no while the