 Good morning everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TFNN 9 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday morning 30 minutes to go until that opening bell and we got a mixed market so far this morning folks rising tensions between the US and China as the US tells China to close that Houston consulate the market trades lower you see the acceleration we get the S&P up here right now S&P's negative by four points at thirty two forty seven but we're well off a solid twenty points off the lows we had at about five a.m. this morning quite the acceleration I happened to peek my eyes open at about five thirty a.m. this morning and I saw the markets at thirty two thirty and I said whoa what happened I went to bed last night it was at thirty two sixty five but give it a few minutes folks S&P's now thirty two forty seven NASDAQ back in the positive ten thousand eight seventy two you see the overnight action on the NASDAQ to a low of about ten thousand seven eighty one the Dow negative thirty seven trading twenty six thousand six eighty eight I think we're solid almost two hundred points where are we yeah twenty six thousand no so excuse me about a hundred points off the low from what's the low there excuse me yeah no almost two hundred points twenty six thousand five twenty five the low overnight currently trading twenty six thousand six eighty eight story of the day you could say silver here's gold to start off eighteen fifty one we're as high as eighteen sixty six and silver we were above twenty three dollars when I actually started my program at eight thirty twenty three thirty five the high silver sell it off a bit still twenty two fifty in the price of silver all right what else we got going on the headline of the morning State Department orders China to close consulate in Houston China vows retaliation some rising tensions you saw some senator Marco Rubio saw him out there this morning saying basically that consulate it's one big spy operation I don't trust China I would believe that in a heartbeat nonetheless rising tensions earning season we get Tesla and Microsoft after the bell Tesla shares quite a fall off yesterday after Monday's acceleration still we're trading higher this morning though right near sixteen hundred at fifteen ninety six Microsoft quite a run Microsoft has had currently trading right at about two ten from Microsoft pretty interesting Elon Musk the pay package he set up for himself folks as CEO regardless of the shares he already owns as the founder billions of dollars if this continues it's trying to be flowing his way as he qualified for yet another payout of part of that package two point one billion dollar payday I think this had to do with the market cap reaching one hundred and fifty billion yes there it is despite Tuesday stock dip and importantly from us personal finances six month average market capitalization reached one hundred and fifty billion remarkable action stay tuned folks Larry Pezzamento he's coming up live right now we'll be right back