As every academic I keep asking myself how can I make a contribution to the world with my work. And so I thought that actually with this idea of civic leadership we can empower civic leaders throughout the world to make a difference in their places. So a little bit of background. My research is around public leadership, but I thought that public leadership in some ways is a concept too much confined to the public sector. And we are clearly in an era where even from the private sector with the concept of shared value, corporate social responsibility and other practices and of course also from the civil society and the voluntary sector, there is a movement towards the achievement of goals and outcomes that matter for everybody. So that's why with civic leadership I mean a leadership that is committed to make a positive difference in a given place. And the attachment of to a place I think it's quite important especially in our times where we are getting increasing digital. And that's why we are committed with Open University and with the Strategic Research Area to build a global civic leadership academy. To educate civic leaders throughout the world. From Africa to Milton Keynes. From New York to Singapore. From the smallest village in Scandinavia to the smallest village in South America. Out there there are leaders who are committed to their place. Our aim is to educate them and to empower them to understand and to learn how they can develop their leadership potential to push the common goal. Hopefully we can then establish a digital network of civic leaders that can be committed to bench learning and to engage in activism to improve the debates that are occurring in our world and to improve their places.


Welcome to Pisa Palace. Table for two? Nice. Right there's where. Dinner roll? No, thank you.  Earlier. Did I mention them seeking revenge, by the way? Because I am. Can't let things like that slide. So what do you do? I'm fighting in the War of the Roses. Is that all you do, or do you do, you know, do you have a day job? No, just that. That's great. Not everyone gets to do what they love. Speaking of, did I mention by the way that I'm seeking revenge for the death of my father? It was implied. Your Uncle, it was? Claudius, right. I used to fight with my family too. It can be rough.  I was frowned upon. I used to just like a boy often. See that. What do you mean? No, it's just that I didn't mean to... nothing.  I just think that you'd like to dress up in disguises? Oh. So you're very pretty for a boy. But I'm a girl. No, no, no, I know, I know, I know. My family also didn't like what I was speaking to. Boyfriend? God. A lot of people talked to God. But he was talking back. Interesting. Do you think that's weird? No. Most recently his mother came to me and told me to go fight for France. Really? We've been fighting England. I think I read something about that. I mean, one drop of blood from my country's bosom should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore. But that's just me. It's not so you think of your country like that. I'm really focused on my uncle right now. Well, I'll tell you back. Well? I'm a little surprised you haven't done the deed yet.  I know not seams. What stood in your way? Life's so crazy, you know. My to-do list just keeps piling up and then there's my mother. She's got my two best friends staying with her and once you get started with them, they're characters. Hmm. Oh, I did make an attempt of revenge, but he was in the middle of praying. Praying? You can't see revenge while they pray. That's what I said. I think when he's drunk, asleep, or in rage, at game, or swearing, it's just so salvation in it. That's what I'll tell you about. I see where you're going with this, but may I give you a few pointers? Shoot. When you see him next, challenge him on the spot. Oh, spot? No matter who be near or what his task, you're in the right now. This is your father's wrongful death. The king you seek revenge for. Uh, yeah? Let nothing hold you back. Show me what you've got. Thank you.


floor is yours. Hi everyone, welcome to my presentation on multi-designated receiver signed public encryption. CCC's joint work with William Auer and Christopher Portman. Oh thanks, sorry. Okay, so in this paper we introduced two new types of public encryption schemes. The first one is as in the title and the second one is called PKEBC or public encryption for broadcast. We also give constructions of both of these schemes from standard assumptions and I would like to note that any MDRS PKE scheme which satisfies anonymity yields a multi-designated verifier signature scheme or MDVS with privacy of identities. This means that we give the first MDVS scheme with privacy of identities from standard assumptions. Okay, so now let's look at the syntax for PKEBC schemes. So suppose you have a standard Alice and five receivers B1 through B5 with these public keys. So RPK just means receiver public key and the similar for RSK. So if Alice wants to send a message to say for example a factor of receivers B1, B4 and B3, she just encrypts it using this factor of public keys and the message and then to the crypt, for example, B1 will just use his own secret key and he will get back not only the message but also the factor of public keys with respect to which the suffer text was encrypted. I wanted to point out here that the decryption algorithm really only needs the secret key of the receiver. So this is important because for example if the encryption scheme achieves some sort of anonymity, if the encryption would need the public keys of the other parties, then the receiver would have to guess who the other parties are or who'd have to know that in advance. And then the receiver's public keys is also output so that the party knows who the other receivers were. Okay so we consider these three notions as the basic security notions for PKEBC schemes and as an addition we'll also consider anonymity or IKCC to security. So consistency is captures the following. So even if Alice would now be dishonest, she cannot come up or any suffer text she might come up with will satisfy that if for example one of the honest receivers decrypts it and obtains some message and some factor of public keys, for example B1, B3, B5, then any other honest receiver whose public is in this factor when it decrypts the same suffer text will obtain exactly the same factor and exactly the same message. Then there is also robustness. So robustness is considered a non-assender and honest receivers and this is similar to the robustness notion for normal PKE schemes. The only difference that it's adapted for PKEBC schemes. So basically if Alice sends a message to say B1 and B4, of course B1 would still decrypt it normally but if for some reason B3 gets also this suffer text when he tries to decrypt it he will not get anything. Then we also have confidentiality. So if Alice sends a message to two honest receivers, a party who is not one of these receivers and who is dishonest will not learn anything about the underlying message other than the size of the message. So in this case B5 would not learn anything other than the length of the message. Similarly, sort of similarly for anonymity, B5 will not learn who the receivers of the message are although it will still learn that the the suffer text is intended to two receivers. So for example it would not be able to tell if the receivers of the suffer text were B1 and B4 or maybe there were B2 before or any other possible combination of honest receivers. Okay so with this let's just have a look at how and how one can construct PKEBC schemes, PKEBC scheme. So we'll first recall Norayung's NCC1 PKE scheme and then we'll show how to make it how to turn it into a PKEBC scheme and finally we'll make it actually anonymous. So as building blocks for Norayung's PKE scheme we'll have an in-CPA secure PKE scheme and also a non-interactive zero-knowledge proof. The key pair generation algorithm will generate two key pairs for the underlying CPA scheme and also a CRS for the NISC. The public key will consist of the public keys for this underlying CPA scheme and also the CRS for the NISC and the secret key will just be the secret key of one of these CPA generated secret keys. I mean one of the secret keys that were generated by this CPA scheme and also the public key, sorry. So for encryption what the sender does is it just generates two cipher texts. Each of them are an encryption under one of the public keys of the receiver of the message and then uses this NISC scheme to prove that there is some message that both of these cipher texts are encryptions of the same message. Of course then the cipher text for this PKE scheme will correspond to the NISC proof and the two the two cipher tests that were generated. For the encryption a receiver will first check if the NISC proof is valid for the same statement and if it is it will decrypt the first cipher text and simply output the underlying message. One thing I would like to note is that if the NISC scheme is assumed to be simulation sound then the PKE scheme will actually be in CC2 secure. So now let's see how can we generalize this into a PKEBC scheme. So first PKEBC schemes have an additional algorithm that is used to generate now the CRS for this NISC and then in key generation we no longer have to generate this CRS for the NISC so the public key will just consist of the public keys of the underlying CPA secure scheme. Now recall that the encryption algorithm will now get as input this vector of receiver public keys and so what the sender does or what this encryption algorithm does is that now the sender has to compute for each of these senders an encryption of the message that it wants to send. So it's basically the same as before but just that it does it for each of the senders. Then it uses this NISC scheme to prove that there is a message such that every cipher text that it generated is an encryption of this message M under the corresponding public key that was received as input to the scheme. Then the cipher text will correspond to this NISC proof to the vector of cipher text that were generated and also to the vector of public keys. Decryption will be similar except that now we also have to check which cipher text the receiver should decrypt. So what the receiver does is that it looks for the index such that his public key matches the one that is in this vector in the cipher text and of course if there is no such index it just does not output anything but if it finds it then it just tries to decrypt the cipher text and outputs the vector of public keys that were in the cipher text together with the message that it obtained from decrypting the cipher text. Okay one thing I wanted to notice from the from this scheme is that notice that of course this is not does not achieve any sort of anonymity first because this vector v goes in planning the in the cipher text and also because actually even the NISC statement has this vector there. I mean the vector of public keys is not part of the witness so it does not have to be hidden. Okay so let's have a look at how things look. We know that there are NISC schemes from standard assumptions and actually there are also simulations on NISCs from standard assumptions. So we take any simulations on NISC and also from any PKE scheme from which is in the CPA secure we get this first construction of a PKEBC scheme however it's still not anonymous so let's make the previous scheme actually anonymous. So the main idea will be to add a binding commitment to the vector of receiver's public keys and also to the message and then when instead of just encrypting the message we'll encrypt the vector of public keys the message and also the random coins that were used to compute the commitment. So now the building blocks are the same as before but also now a statistically binding commitment scheme and actually we also need the underlying PKE scheme to also be IKC-PA secure. So the public perimeter generation algorithm or setup algorithm now the only difference is that it also has to compute this CRS for the commitment scheme but everything else looks the same as before. Now our scheme what it does is it first one has to compute the commitment to the vector of public keys to which we are encrypting the message okay and also of the message under some sequence of random coins row and then for each receiver we'll have to generate essentially instead of just being encryption of a message we encrypt not only the message but also the sequence of random coins and this vector v and then the NISC statement is slightly different because we have to show that there is a message but now also there is a vector of public keys and the sequence and these are now in the witness such that essentially they explain the commitment and also each of the encryptions okay and now of course the commitment is also part of the final ciphertext. For the encrypting the the encryption is basically the same as before but now we have to go over each of the ciphertext and check which one was meant for the for this receiver so we will try to decrypt each ciphertext until we finally find one that first encrypts correctly and second such that the public key of the receiver is encrypting matches in the same index as the as in this vector and such that it can you can recompute the commitment this gives you like correctness basically okay and if there is none of course you just don't don't output anything and otherwise you will output this vector v and the message okay so let's see how things look now now we also have this additional statistically binding commitment scheme which exists from standard assumptions and we will also use a pke scheme which is not only in cpi but also ikacpa secure and this also exists from standard assumptions and with these three building blocks we get we get the first scheme which satisfies all the security notions of pkvc schemes plus these ikac to security okay so with this let's just now look at the syntax and security notions for mdrs pke schemes so first the syntax the syntax is somewhat similar to before to the pkvc schemes things that now senders also have key pairs then a sender to send a message also has to use his own or her own secret key in order to generate his suffer text and decryption now will output not only this vector of receiver public is in the message but also the sender's public key so again i want you to make the same note as before which is for decrypting you really only need to know the sender's public key and you don't need to know who the sorry the receiver's secret key not the sender's public key and you do not need to know who the sender is or who the other receivers are and this is actually output by the decryption so the security notions that mdrs pke schemes should satisfy these four properties plus anonymity okay so i'll just go over the the security notions so off the record guarantees the following so suppose that a2 just sends some message m to this vector of receiver so before b5 b2 b2 b5 because he's dishonest might want to try and tell a3 that you know a2 said said something so just wants to convince a3 now that uh who is not a designated receiver that a2 said something and off the record guarantee captures that well maybe actually a2 never said anything maybe b5 is actually just making it all up so then what happens is that of course if a3 cannot knows that he cannot distinguish the cipher texts that would be honestly generated by a2 or the cipher texts that would be generated by b5 it will not be convinced okay so then we also have authenticity this is essentially the same as for mdvs schemes and it just says that the dishonest parties cannot come up with cipher texts that an honest receiver will successfully decrypt where the public key that is output by the decryption is the public key of some honest sender and dishonest sender had never sent a cipher text which is basically the encryption of the same message to uh some vector of parties okay so there is also consistency it's similar to before the only thing is that now we also have to consider the sender so if b1 outputs some vector of uh actually a triple where in this vector there is for example before uh public key with some sender's public key spkx then when before decrypts she should obtain exactly the same because before public key was output also by b1's decryption then we also have confidentiality and this really looks like before so it's just that dishonest parties will not learn anything about underlying message other than the length of the message and finally we also have anonymity and for anonymity the guarantee is slightly different although similarly to before again so the thing is that now the dishonest parties will not only not learn who the receivers are but also not learn who the sender was so in this case the dishonest receivers will not learn that maybe the sender was a2 and the receivers were b1 and before it could be any possible combination of an honest sender and two honest receivers okay so finally let's just have a very brief look at how one could or the main idea for constructing an mdrs pke scheme and basically the main idea is really just to use an mdvs scheme with does not have to be anonymous or does not have to satisfy privacy of identities and an iccc to secure pkebc scheme and basically we'll use the mdvs scheme to sign messages with respect to some factor of or to some set of receivers and then we'll use the pkebc scheme to encrypt all the key information plus the message and the signature and yeah and basically this is the main idea of the construction so finally let's have a look at how things look so we had this from before and now if we take any mdvs scheme and also any anonymous pkebc scheme using this construction we will just get the mdrs pke scheme which satisfies all the basic mdrs pke scheme notions plus anonymity and finally again as i said i think in the first slide before there were no constructions of these mdvs schemes with anonymity from standard assumptions there was one construction based on verifiable functional encryption and essentially since any mdrs pke scheme is essentially an mdvs scheme but just gives even more guarantees basically actually give the first mdvs scheme with anonymity okay so thank you for your attention and please let me know if you have any questions is there any question no question here yes can you please use the microphone hello great um sorry i just wanted to ask um what are the real-world situations where specifically i think in the mdvs scheme that you described the receivers do know who are the other receivers when they are decrypting and i was wondering what would be the situations where they would like receivers would need to know who are the other receivers of a message so the question is the use case for the first scheme so when receivers would not know okay so actually the use case for the first scheme was that essentially the question is how can you transmit the public keys for example even if you have an mdvs scheme that satisfies privacy how can you actually transmit the information such that receiver will know sufficient information to be able to verify signatures and the thing is that if i mean either you assume that the uh either you assume that the receiver just knows who the what the context would be somehow or if you do not make that assumption which i think is natural uh then you'd have basically to guess because you just don't know who the other who the sender and who the other receivers were so you're just left with a guessing so this is just a way to uh can be used for example to transmit the keys okay any other question so actually i have one so yeah if i understood well uh if i see a message circulating and i don't know if this message is intended to me so i should try to decrypt right and i should go through all the possible decryption to figure out that the message was not for me right uh yes yes yes you're right is there any analysis of the complexity of the this algorithm i mean i did not analyze it but it's at the very least linear any other question okay so thank you very much thank you thank you


And this is the breakfast in Plos TV Africa. Let's look at our second conversation. Look, short codes is a focus this morning. However, Nigeria is moving towards harmonising all short codes to uniform numbers across the telecommunication operators from May the 17th. Now, throughout the Nigerian Communications Commission, in the next two months, telecoms like MTN, Airtel, Nightmobile and Globalcom among others may begin to use one singular code for specific transaction. This means Nigerians who want to recharge their mobile phones check their credit balance for airtime or data and all the services will do this for a uniform number irrespective of the network service provider. This appears to be the second phase of telecom industry harmonisation after the NCC introduced the mobile number portability feature 10 years ago in April 2013. Now, joining us to look at this and the implication is Okuno Abdullahi. It's good to have you join us. Good morning. Hey, good morning. Glad to be here with you. Yes. Okuno, I'd like to ask you, what are your thoughts about this development, the harmonisation of codes? Okay, thank you so much. I think the harmonisation is a welcome development considering the fact that in this country of ours, you realise that hardly would you get to see an individual having just one network. You know, you see a lot of people using more than one telecommunication, what do you call it, numbers, you know, while you, even as a matter of fact, have come across people that have all the networks, you understand? So people, for certain people like that, to be a welcome development rather than for them to always be racking their brain over what is the short code to be used for one network or the other. I remember an incident like that, as a matter of fact, you actually have to my wife and myself, you know, every now and then when she wants to, she was so used to one particular network because she has another one. So anytime she wants to use the other one, she will always call me and ask me, darling, what's the short code for this particular service on this particular network? And unfortunately for her, I do not use that particular network, she is always bothering me about. So what we usually do is to always go to a net, to search for what the code is, you know, but in a serious way, you have uniformity in all the short codes, irrespective of the network we are using. I think it's a very good development, which must be embraced by all. All right, Okonu, I'm seeing that the proposed harmonized short codes are things like call center, help desk, voicemail deposit, voicemail retrieval, you know, borough services, stop services, check balance, credit recharge, data plan, you know, and other services, verification, same verification, irony. But are these enough, you know, because you talked about memorizing all these things, are these enough, you know, the other things that each network offers that are important, you know, should we be looking at maybe bringing more into these the short code idea? We also have even the banks, you know, loading credit and using your bank, which is the most important one doing transfers to the U.S.S.D. So is it, is it, do we have more things you can bring into this, or these are the major ones that we should get? Secondly, we've seen that with the forceful move of Nigerians into, you know, cashless transactions, especially with the websites of the banks, internet banking, mobile banking as well with the U.S.S. is that the seems like the volume of transactions is weighed down on the network, you know, of the banks, you know, sometimes you see U.S.S. you have a bank, it's not going through, it's not working, the app is not working, the websites. So if everybody is now focused on a particular short code, will we not have this overcrowding of sorts, if for want of a better word? Okay, thank you so much. Let me start with the first question you asked. When I actually saw this news item, I went through and I saw several numbers do some, I mean, this look, they look to be in sequence. By that, I'm trying to say that we have a 300 for call center, 301 for voice mail deposits, 302 for voice mail and the likes like that. So do they, they are in sequence, but for me, as an individual, to very likely say, I want to believe that this number is too, they are too many. They are too many. That's the way I personally is looking at it. They are too many. I'm looking at the situation whereby we have just one. For instance, like emergency airplane, in the, in legacy, for example, you have just seven, three, seven, the one on two.  You always get somebody responding to you and a right person will respond and they try to attend to whatever your need is. Simple writing is what I'm expecting of this. While we are immunizing fine, it is a welcome development, like I said earlier, but at the same time, we should go for that. Then bring in the number of numbers for like though, like they tried to explain for specific services, but back now we stand in, we can have a three-way bike, you have maximum, oh yes, say two different short codes. One, you know, once you have a the short code, you dial it. So whatever transaction you want to do, we can easily scroll up. I mean, scroll down, look at the interface, your phone to get to find where exactly you want to do. If it is to transfer money, we go ahead and do it. If it is to recharge your phone, your data and the lights like that, we go ahead and do it.  So because what we are trying to run away from, eventually we will still run into the same problem. And that is how easy people easily can easily assess these numbers. So that's for me, I want to further urge the NCC to go further to streamline these numbers. They are too many for me. They are too many. Then you talked about the jam packing of these facilities whereby you are using short codes and they are not functioning the way they should. If they harmonize with the problem not persist, I really don't see it as such, actually. You know, what really led to this one is that the service providers before now, they were not the rush this time around as a result of the cashless redesign policy that is on now. They never expected such, such they were not prepared for it. But in the situation whereby we are now streamlined, we are trying to make uniform short codes for all telecommunications, what do you call it? Network providers. I think they will increase their capacity and they will not have any such problem. And apart from that also is the fact that if you are using one of the service providers network, that means all subscribers on that particular network are the ones, I mean, the telecommunication operator on that particular network is the one that will cater for all its subscribers. So unlike what is going on presently, you know, majority of some of these banks and their abs, we get to realize that some network providers, I mean, they are more, subscribers are more on a particular bank compared to others. That's where you get to see that some of these problems are more peculiar to certain banks, you know, compared to others. So for me, this particular experience we save as a learning curve for them and for them to know, which I want to believe that yes, they have realized it as well, that they need to increase their capacity and also for the banks as well to increase the capacity of their app, they should help them again. Well, we do have breaking news that a loaded Lagos State Government staff has been involved in a collision with a trainer, the PWD bypass in the area of Ikejira, rescue workers, according to the reporter on the scene, to help the injured.  It's also been advised that you should probably, if you can hear us now, try to avoid that area, because it's a high possibility of traffic in this axis.  But we get back to the crux of that. I think that is a BRT bus actually, not a staff bus. Well, according to the report that we got, the collision is between a bus, the Lagos State Government bus and a BRT, it is a collision. So it's not just, it didn't happen on its own. Yeah, it seems to be between a BRT bus and a train. All right then, so we'll just continue with the conversation. Just like we've said, we'll just bring you more update as we proceed, you know, with this conversation, especially on our bulletin that will shortly come after this part of the show. But Abdulahi, I'd like to ask you with the codes, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you go. The harmonization of these codes, do you think that it would yield to effectiveness and efficiency? Yes, I believe so. I believe so. Abdulahi, we can hear you. Hello. Yeah, please go on, we can hear you, Abdulahi. Okay, okay, thank you so much. So like I was saying, it's definitely going to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the services being rendered. You know, like I am more particular about the subscribers, like I said earlier, a lot of people racked their brain over what these codes were, somebody that is using more than one network, you know, the battle to get to use all these short codes. But in a case whereby we have them harmonized the way it is being proposed now, I think for the subscribers, it is a very welcome development. And at the same time, we should also challenge the service providers to increase their capacity to be able to serve their subscribers very well. So obviously, it will lead to increased efficiency, I believe so. All right, what are all the innovations you think the authorities, the NCC and the telco should embark on, you know, to make things easier for Nigerians as far as telecommunications is concerned, because I mean, of course, it's been a while since, you know, the benefits of per second billing came to be. Of course, it wasn't a government policy. It was a policy of one of the companies and the others had to adopt it. So what innovations do you think can be introduced to ensure that Nigerians enjoy, you know, the use of the mobile phone? I mean, these days, we have artificial intelligence, we have 5G coming in. Are we ready for all these developments around the world? So what do you think we need to, what's the next stage we need to get to? I mean, this innovation is good, we are improving, we are bringing harmonization. But the other things you think can be introduced to make it a more enjoyable experience for Nigerians as far as mobile telephony is concerned. Okay, thank you so much. I want to look at it from the perspective of the customers, subscribers. One of the things, while you were asking that question, the first thing that came to my mind has to do with the data description.  So this aspect, I won't say NCC to look into this direction. Then apart from that also, whereby I, for example, subscribe irrespective of the number of months, it should be actually limitless. There shouldn't be a cap to when I must exhaust my data. Just like your, what's the code now? You recharging your phone, you have a certain amount of credit on your line. If you decide, you may decide rather not to use it to make an account whatsoever for a very long time.  Your money will still be there. The same thing should be applicable to data as well.  I want NCC to look into this. This will make Nigeria say, be more appreciative of their work. They are doing well. Don't worry about that. But if they can consider this, I think it will go a long way in putting smiles into the faces of Nigeria. Then I'm not that important as a comrade, as a trade unionist. I want the NCC though they may want to say that it is not really within their purview. But I want them to go further than looking at this as fibres, but also focus, I mean, sorry, telecoms operators, but also to try to focus on the workers that are performing the job that are making these services available to Nigerians. The workers are suffering within this sector. And then we, as a union, we have been trying to see how we will moderate the sufferings of these workers within the sector. But when the agencies of government, like NCC, for example, look into this direction, I think it will also bring the Thank you so much. Yeah. Okay. Very quickly. So because of time, very quickly, very quickly, mobile money is innovation that technology that has been introduced in Nigeria for years. But a lot of Nigerians don't know about mobile money. What happens is you take your mobile phone and that mobile number of yours is an account, it's a wallet. Anyone can send money to you on your mobile number. It's been introduced for years and Nigerians haven't adopted it, the adaptation has been really poor or penetration acceptability. Why do you think that is the case? Because some are saying, well, with this, these challenges right now with the cash crunch and everything, it is an avenue for Nigerians to be easily transacted business, you know, if you don't have a bank account. Why do you think it's failed to take off in the country? I must say, but if the number of people that are bragging it is still very low, then what I feel should be done is for more sensitization to be done, they need to publicize it as much as possible. Because if you don't, like they say, knowledge is par. If what you don't know, you don't know it. So if people are not aware of the importance of this mobile money, of course they will not embrace it.  So the same way you publicize all these conventional banks as well, if you publicize this as much as possible, a lot of people also embrace it. We have to go now. Thank you. Thank you so much, Kanua Abdelahi for being part of the show this morning. We appreciate your thoughts sincerely and we look forward to having you speak on issues like this. And that's the size of our package. Merci. It was a privilege doing this with you and of course tomorrow we'll be back here. It's also a privilege having a viewers join us this morning right here on the breakfast. Please follow us on social media, plus TV Africa, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, two channels plus TV Africa and plus TV Africa lifestyle. My name is Messi Boko. And my name is Kofi Bartels. Thanks for joining us. And Messi and I will have some hot, more hot tea whilst we prepare for the rest of our day. Have a nice day.


Hi everyone, on this Tuesday October the first Basel Chapman here for the Tiger Technicians Hour, but first we've got the Tiger Financial News Network, market update, we're looking at the down. Certainly, thank you Tommy O'Brien, it starts us off at 9 o'clock with a great show. So let's say we've got the Dow up 221 and 34,222, look at these sideways, look, big red candle, green candle, big red candle, now we've got a green candle, will this be a green candle going towards the high of the day, we don't know yet, but so far this is nice, way off the bottom of yesterday and then at rising lows, so what we want to see is an attempt by Wednesday afternoon to at least try for the 34,350 area, 34,400 would be really good, we're looking at and certainly support has to hold at 34,150, let's go to the S&P and the S&P at this point is also up, it is up exactly $32 at 4333, we've got a lot of work to do, making lower lows right up until yesterday, now it's got at 4334, it really needs to get to the 4358, 4363 area to say hey, I've got a decent balance here within the counter trend, as a counter trend rally, look at the QQQ, it was lagging badly today, we are short sold from way back about a point and a half of the all time high, but there's definitely oversold balance coming and that's where we are right now, what we're looking at is that the QQs are up 317 and 355.82, they've got a lot of work to do, 357.80 to 358.60 would be the upside short term target to try to reach and certainly the 353s must hold their support, IWM Russell 2000 small caps doing quite nicely up $1.15 at 221.45, also has a lot of work to do but it's held much better than the QQs and certainly it is acting quite nicely here, it needs to get to the 323.60 area, certainly 319 must be support, hey gold, what's happening to gold, gold's down very sharply, down 14, the dollar is holding quite nicely here, it's having a good move up today and crude oil, crude oil is going back into the upper atmosphere, it's up $1.32, $7.84, a lot of talk about when I get back from my Tiger technicians hour, hope you can join me and also check out my opening call, give that some really nice calls, see you in a few minutes, otherwise tomorrow, same time, same stage, have a great day.


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