trade talks will continue for the rest of this month to set up for that conversation. so the market steps back and looks at this and says this is a positive sign. we re talking here. we re moving forward. there s no brick wall. that is why you can see stocks rising today. on to the economic news. we got adp figures out this morning. that s private sector payroll. up 195,000. higher than the expected figure there. what it says basically is that businesses are more confident even though there s talks of a recession, to add workers to the payroll. remember, this is ahead of the jobs number tomorrow as well. so some are saying that could be stronger than expected. meantime, it s going to be really important to watch this data action we move through september and october. we have the new round of tariffs kick in. we need to see how companies are adjusting and what they say about results and how business is progressing forward. these are positive signs. the president saw that adp