and investors are keeping an eye on earnings. joining us is lindsey bell what is the quality of earnings this season? it s been a good earnings season we expected a decline of 2%, but we re going to see up side of 1.3% we re about 65% of the way through, but to dovetail a what you just said, the best performing sector really has been technology. when you take into account both sales and earnings, that has been a sector where we have seen 8 po% of companies that have reported so far beat on both top and bottom lines. do you think that earnings is driving the narrative? are we still squarely focused on coronavirus? i think corona is leading the headlines, but i think the undertone that earnings and some of the commit data we got last week has supported up side in this market. plus lindsey, thank you very much let us focus more on the other big stories. as always, we have got full team coverage for you josh lipton is tracking the impact of the coronavirus on apple. and