Thank you for your patience with yesterday's vlog Took about three hours to work through an issue good old tech support Lovely lovely the gentleman who's helping me though is very understanding Yeah, yeah, and I have those It's just so the so the time machine is more internal hard drives, you know just for the time machine Yeah If there's anything that can drive me a little crazy It's tech support Little on edge right now little on edge right now crazy eyes Tech support if you work in tech support, let me know in the comments below because I have mad respect for you. I Kept my cool today. I'm not saying I've always kept my cool when speaking with tech support But it's got to be really hard to be patient with people all day long I was on the phone for a good three or four hours this afternoon. Oh my gosh different issues popping up anyway Michael is turning six months old soon. And so we're leaving him for date night. It's crazy. I know I know Anyway, true love is just wrapping up feeding and then we're going to the movies Hard situation All right Better get my seat. I was saying I love you. You were telling me you love me And I'm just waiting for true love. I just vented hardcore with our motions and the volume and We just had a little vent session to Alamo on Alamo draft house movie night but By one get one free we're late and we just had both a stressful day Me with tech support for three hours and true love with other situations I did so we love you and we'll tell you how the movie is listen We need a date night to just unplug and honey after what you mean you can Talk about it. Yeah It was rough All right, we're going in with a GoPro listen. That's it for venting Okay, that's it. Oh, our venting is done. We feel better. I feel like we can take on the world Yeah, right now that we have seen Mission Impossible a fallout even though we're about two months behind because the movie came out in July That's right. That's okay. Hey, and Tom Cruise still has it my gosh. He's got some moves still and it was a good It was a solid movie. Here's here's what I but here's my deal Yeah, I think I put the as far as action movies Yeah, and I don't know what you think you too, but I put like the born movies. Yep 007 and then probably like the Mission Impossible. I like the born movies better, but it's still really good I liked it the big message from this movie was upholding the dignity of all human life right the one person is Just as important as the millions of people That's a really good point and that's what stood out to me even in the first scene When the gentleman from Armageddon, I can't remember his name. Yes, the big black guy.  I know we know Benji.  Yeah over the thought of Millions millions.  We liked it. We liked it. Yeah I was just gonna wrap it up. Well, I think too like the Adrenaline and frustration and anxieties I came into it with and was venting then to like have your heart pounding and the plutonium rolling And you know, I think that helped as well getting to vent to my true love things babe and then and then my heart beating super fast Yeah, I feel like I was well in the world. I know. We're trying to recover here. This is Joseph James turn six Well, actually technically yesterday. Yeah, that's true Technically technically his birthday was yesterday. No He started kindergarten But the shoes what happened with the shoes? Okay, so I ordered on from stridebike.com and then they said they ran out of that size so they canceled the order But it was super it never came in it went to the junk mail So I never saw it and I kept on my shoes By the time I figured it out and we ordered these we're already in week To yesterday today yesterday was the start today is the start of week two So week two of kindergarten. So the shoes What's that? I'm out of it. The shoes showed up late, but they're here now. They're here now. Let's see them So I reordered them from oh she had to reorder School shoes They want you to have tennis shoes and You either wear a navy or khaki I just can't stand I don't know. First of all, navy's my favorite color Even through What was that called? Um verbal processing verbal processing To put it lightly mildly. Um, I think it's also called word vomit or We love you See you tomorrow YouTube family venting That was


Okay guys, we are at JFK airport and this is the TWO again Okay guys, we're at JFK airport and this is the TWA hotel and I've got my Z4 3 here and that's board for them and She's got the Z Flip 3. We're taking a trip. We're going on jet blue and we're flying meant so business class So you guys take a look and see how that trip is and we're heading to London time Okay, so guys, I am here at my gates Winning for board from to get here. I've been using the Galaxy Z Fold 3 now throughout the day and Battery life is at 64% so that's from 9 a.m. Which is actually pretty good now. I haven't done too much with it So I'm gonna be watching a lot of video and looking at content on the plane while I take this flight Since I'm flying meant you guys are going to see a very different experience. This is my first time going on meant to of course an international waters on jet blue, so that should be fun and Have both of them here. She's waiting for me She's like Hi Yeah, she says hi The jet blue has an awesome meant business class experience tons of space really nice great product guys I have to do a video on this so stay tuned for it But there's a lot of cool tech here. You've got wireless charging built into your seat You've got ability to connect your smartphone to your TV and you've got free Wi-Fi for the whole trip So flying internationally free Wi-Fi is absolutely golden and honestly love it Okay, so now some take a little break and a quick word from our sponsor of this video Qualcomm with snapdragon sound now you guys know I love my audio So the idea of snapdragon sound appeals to me greatly bringing you like High-end great audio in one complete package. 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I'm just I'm cutting right here Don't worry. They don't want me question the video my mic wasn't on so I am going to show you some other things Show you Chinatown as we went through some of the great food we had we had some great dim sum Took some photos had a good time and honestly London is a great place. So check out some images from the Z Fold 3 I don't I'm not concerned about what you say because the laughter when I said that Somebody just had a spark over there. It's not Z. It's Zed or Z. You need to go back to school. It's Zed I really like this phone, but I feel if you're a Z Fold 2 Z Fold 2 user You might not want to upgrade to this just yet. You might you might want to check out the Z Flip 3 Just because the Z Flip 3 Z Flip 3 back again my words out is actually a really good advice What my issue with this is basically the upgrade on this is not massively different from the Z Fold 2 Really, I don't think it is. I mean even with the pen even with the pen because from a Samsung S21 Ultra or Note User for example the whole point is being able to tuck this in and not see it And I feel like this case is not it's not doing it justice I think the fold should remain the fold and the note series should remain the note series I'm at the airport about to board, but I want to round up this video. I mean using the Galaxy Z Flip 3 for the last five days Here in the UK. I've got to say battery life has been solid overall. I haven't been using it with the case I'm just have the case because I'm traveling now because it was cumbersome walking around using the case now I use the device mostly closed. I did open it up to show friends photos and videos You saw what Tommy thought about it, and I think a lot of people like it I think eventually Samsung still needs to slim it down and the S Pen needs to go into the device But I do like a lot of the stuff that this device does and hopefully we see better improvements and some really good Just pointers in general My experience has been great now. I've also been using the watch for which I haven't done a review yet But I do like it. I've been using on battery saving mode, which is basically saving a lot of battery on this device Honestly guys, I do have to run But definitely check out our sponsors Qualcomm with snapdragon sound see what they have That's my flight guys. So and also big shout out to Thread for hooking me up with the outfits for this video So lots of cool stuff that I wore great stuff in general And I'll be dropping the video about Jet Blue's mint experience to check it out. 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What's up everyone? It's your girl Kenzie here from Leighton Sports Cards and I'm ripping 2022 Panini Phoenix football hoppy four box break number 19. Pick your team. We've got a Ali S Chargers, Alvin S with the Texan Saints, Bradley S Eagles, Brent W. Browns, Brian H. Seahawks, Cannon H. Washington and the Colts, Demian V. Bangles, Derek M. Lyons, Edward P with the Cowboys and Bucks, Greg L. Niners, Jeremy H. Giants and Jags, Johnny A. Broncos, Joshua W. Vikings, Justin G. Chiefs, Justin S. Jets, Kevin W. Packers, Kyle M. Panthers, Marvin W. Raiders, Michael K. Bills, Michael A. Rams, Pacapong V. Patriots, Robert K. Steelers, Steve B. Carnals, Tony B. Falcons, Trevor L. Titans, Tyler N. with the Ravens Bears and Tyler M. with the Dolphins. All right, best of luck, everyone. We've got one more of these up next and then a 16 box case break tiered random teams after that one. So let's get those filled up. More group breaks going tonight with Sam starting at five. He's got some F1 mixers to start off the night with the new Formula One dynasty. Six sick cards coming out. All right, here we go. Look, everyone. Thanks again for filling this up. Here we go. Leo, we've got a Weidermeyer Purple to 125 and Kyler Flamethrowers. Or actually, sorry, this was blue. It looked purple for a second. That is blue to 35. Patriots. My apologies. We've got yellow James Cook to 75 for the Bills. Nice one there. Dotson on the Hot Routes. Carter, Karen Williams. We've got Kurt Warner on the Fireforged Red to 199. Two of Flamethrowers. Williams, we've got Teal to 150 of Asamoah the Second, Vikings. Kyle Pitts, Hot Routes. We've got David Bell on the Lava. And Roger Stalback, Fireforged. Johnson, Skye Moore. We have Wildcard Points. That's going to be points in a couple breaks. Wildcard Points. And Silver Rookie of Mathis, Washington. Thomas, Trisky, Javon Walker. We've got Contours Russell Wilson on the Green. That is 138 out of 150 on the Contours. Got 600 points here. Points coming waves, that's for sure. Silver Flamethrowers, Patrick Mahomes. Thomas, we've got Color Burst of Christian McCaffrey, the Niners, CMC. And to 99, we've got Rookie Patch of Hassan Haskins. Three-colored Patch there. Haskins. Yook, Eswakama. We've got Pink, Mike Williams to 199. Hot Routes, Devonte Adams, Wilson, Kamara. Josh Allen, Red to 250. And Rookie Rising, Silver, Kenny Pickett. Rookie Rising, Pink, Skye Moore. Rookie for the Chiefs, that is to 175. Contours, Josh Allen. Last Pack, Box 4. Jones, White, Traylin Burks. Silver, Antonio Gibson. Last hit of this box to 149. We've got Dual Patch, Rookie Auto, Christian Watson. Packers. Box 1 onto Box 2. Last break of the Pick Your Team, just the Bears left. Just Bears. 29 bucks. And after that, we've got a 16 box case break to end the daytime breaks. Got 2 to 150. Lamar Jackson, Debo. Walker Pink for the Chargers to 199. Mike Williams, Joe Namath Fire Forge. Just Bears left. There is the link for you. Lady Najee Harris on the Red to 250 Steelers. Joe Burrow, Contours. Seven White. Garrett Wilson, Rookie. We've got Delvin Cook on the Orange to 99. Tom Breedy, Flamethrowers. Okay, Jabbo. We've got Contours of Derek Henry, that is 5 of 50. Titans. Hot Routes, DJ Moore. T-Tribisky, McBride. Silver, Tyler Lockett. And a 125. Dual Patch, Rookie Auto, Ahmad, Sauce Garner. We go Jets. Nice Sauce. This is a group break, so they are already purchased. Stanley Jr. We've got Mitch Tribisky on the Fire and Ice to 50 for the Steelers. That is 17 of 50. Tralant, Silver, Flamethrowers. Our latest in the bio, if you'd like to hop in a group break. Two million C. Lamb, Drake London. And we've got a rookie color burst of Troy Anderson for the Falcons. We've got Cowboy, CD-Lampatch. Fire Fabrics. Cowboys. That one is 21 of 75. Kittle, Bateman, Ferguson. We've got Pink, James Conner to 199. Flamethrowers of James Winston. Here's Mills. We've got George Pickens on the rookie base. Red, Najee Harris to 250. And Contours rookie, James Cook. We pulled the one and one of this out of the last break. Gold Vinyl to 6. Najee Alexander, Bo Melton. We've got Charlie Colar on the Steel rookie auto. Ravens. That is one out of 25. We go Baltimore, one of the last teams taken. And Silver Rookie of Drake London. Last pack here, box two. Again, Tick Tock, thanks for tuning into the stream. Lincoln Bio, if you'd like to join some group breaks of this. Hot Routes, Yellow, Chris Alave, Saints. That's sick. To 75 on that one. Saints, Hot Routes, Silver, Christian Watson. Again, just the Bears on the last break. Last four box picky team break. And after that, 16 box case break. And Carter. We've got Antonio Gibson on the color burst, Washington. And to 149, we've got rookie patch of Traylon Burks. Titans. Appreciate all the support today, everyone. Do appreciate it. Purple to 125, Daniel Jones. Rookie rising, Desmond Ritter. Harris Petrie. We've got TJ Hawkinson on the Lava to 175. Contour Pat Pelt. Pat Tillman. Green base, Walker. We've got Bailey Zappie on the pink to 199 rookie. And Rogers Flamethrowers. Jones, Henry, Sine, Silver, Adam Thielen. And to 149, we've got rookie patch auto, Aiden Hutchinson. On the football rally, patch auto. Rising rookie. Detroit. Red, Calvin Austin, the third to 250. Steelers, Hot Routes of Garrett Wilson, Rookie. Brands, Williams. We've got Zeke Elliott on the, it's absolutely purple. It's so hard to see. Blue to 35. Nice color match there. Dallas. And Russell Wilson, Flamethrowers. And Julian Hutch, we've got Hot Routes CD Lamb on the, um, Teal to 150. DK Hot Routes. Tua Evans, Sam Howe. We've got a CMC Yellow to 75. Niners. Steve Young, Fireforged. Asamoa, the second rookie on the, um, Teal to 150. Contours, Cooper Cup. Couple packs left in box three. Here's, we've got Pink Rookie Auto, uh, Fadrian Mathis for Washington. Fadrian Mathis. Silver, Jake Ferguson, Silver. Rookie. Last pack, box three. Filler, Burrow, Mariota, Anderson. We've got a George Pickens on the, uh, uh, Lava to 175. Leak Willis, Flamethrowers. All right. Last box here. Last box. Someone do a recap. And we are sold out for number 20. Awesome. So last spots remaining for the daytime is going to be the 16 box full case break. Teared random teams. Only five left to go in that again. That's three, 24, 99 a spot. We'll get you two random teams. One from the top tier and one from the bottom tier value wise. Purple CMC Niners. Drake London Hot Routes and Grum. We've got Christian Watson on the Lava 175. Zach Wilson, Flamethrowers. Carson Strong. Patrick Mahomes on the Pink Flamethrowers. Chiefs. That's 117 of 175. George Kittle Hot Routes. Mia White. Pink Brandon Iuk. Niners. Randall Cunningham for, uh, Fire Forge. Got Red. John Meachie the third to 250. Texas. Matt Corell on the Contours. Thanks for the follows everyone. Or we've got Trevor. Super Short Print Auto. There you go, Jacksonville. Wow. Jags. That's going to Jeremy H. There you go, Jeremy. Wow. That is nasty. Again, this insert auto, the star signs is a super short print auto. That is nasty. Congrats on that one. We'll get this one in a mag for you. Very nice. And Christian Harris, Silver Rookie. Purple Rising, uh, Rookie Rising Christian Watson. That is to 125 and Traylin Burks Hot Routes. Ponte Smith, Harberts, Williams, and a Breeze Hall on the Colour Burst. Nice one. They're Jets. Again, Colour Burst is one per box. There are like two dimples right by his name, as you can see right there for the Jets. I'm going to send a box with him. This one that is, I guess, a box hit. There's only one of those per box, so it's a nicer hit for sure. And to 99, John Mechie, the third on the Hatch, Rookie Hatch Texans. On the Knight, we've got Red Najiharis, the 250. Rookie Rising, Malik Willis. It's like the fourth one of those Najis we've pulled in this break, I feel like. Those are Red Jones, Skymore. We've got Jamar Chase on the Orange to 99. Contours, Brock Lesnar. We've got Lede Wyatt. We've got Zach Wilson on the Teal to 150. Kurt Cousins. Last pack here. Again, I do have two points cards to random off before we do the Recap. Pocket, Veilin, Hamilton, Silver, and Marriota. And to 125, we've got nice Dual Patch, Rookie Auto, Desmond Ritter, Belkens. 125, 53.0125 on that one. All right, give me one second here to set up the Random. I think I already set one up just in case. Yep. All right, so we have 600 points and a wildcard point. So the wildcard will go to the top spot and 600 will go to the second team. All right, let's roll our dice again. Top two teams will take one of those home eight times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Cowboys getting the wildcard points and Lions getting the 600 points. Cowboys and Lions. All right. Yeah, Jeremy, you just hit the one of one out of the last break, didn't you? That's crazy. And it's not just a tealaw auto. Jeremy, those star signs are super short print autos. I'll have to look at the checklist again, but I think there's like less than 10 names on that autograph set. John Metchie, the third Texans. We've got Traylin Burks, Titans, Steady Lamb Cowboys, Hassan Haskins, Titans, Desmond Ritter, RPA, Falcons, Ricciato Mathis for Washington, Eden Hutchinson on the RPA for the Lions, Colar, Ricciato Ravens, Sos Garner RPA, Jets Christian Watson RPA for the Packers. And then we had the super short print star signs autograph of Trevor Lawrence. That is crazy. Congrats again on that one, Jeremy. Thanks so much, everyone. We've got our last one of our Pick Your Team format coming right up.


In this Sprouts Teaching Technique, we introduce the idea of student leaders, a simple task-based method teachers can use to build self-esteem, teach responsibility, and help students take pride in themselves and their classroom. To create your own student leaders, think about activities that your students can help you complete, watering plants, being in charge of getting you books, or anything that is easy for them to do and makes them feel special. Next, transform these tasks into special roles for your students. Instead of just having your students water your plants, give them the title of Rainmaker. Instead of getting a book, name them the Bookmaster. Giving these tasks a title will make them excited to help you. It will also help them pay attention and feel good about themselves. Some tasks can be daily and some every few days. It helps to create a student leader calendar for all your students to see and make sure that you rotate through the tasks and that everyone gets a turn at every task. Please use the comments below to let us know what you think. If you are a student, tell us if you've ever been a student leader. If you are a teacher, share your tips on how to use this in your classroom. We're releasing updates regularly, so don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Thank you for watching.


The last thing which I want to share in this lesson is how you can use just chromatic embellishments all over the place and use those, if you observe the melody which I have written out, I have used a lot of these off the scale notes or even off the chord notes but I have used it at the off beat, I have used it at the ends, I have not used it at the strong beats, I may not have used it at the one of the bar or the threes of the bar, I will use it where the beats are as we say weak. So the chromatic melody which I have come up with is as follows. Something like that. So on its own some of these chromatic notes when fused with the B flat like your E or your D flat and D combined, they don't really sound very good but when you bring it all together and weave it into this melody, they sort of have a way of either talking to each other or connecting with each other. So maybe the notes which are chromatic or the notes which are not part of the chord are still serving their purpose because they lead to a more stronger note and it allows the listeners here to really acknowledge the actually awesome chord tone you know or the actually awesome scale degree which is part of the major scale. So I like to use chromatic notes a lot to pass between what sounds unstable to something which sounds stable. So let's see what I've come up with. Again all over the B flat major chord. Okay, I've come up with one more melody, something like this, quite like that. So when you use chromatic notes, just use them primarily to pass to or to connect to more stronger notes. Use them maybe at the off beats or the weaker beats of the bars like two and the fours or the ands and then let them resolve to a chord tone as much as possible or if ever you use these chromatic passing notes, use them in a quicker sense. Don't land and wait too much on it, otherwise the dissonance gets felt by the human ear.


By now you are very familiar with the linear shear stress distribution in a solid circular shaft subjected to torsion as pictured here. But I have a problem with this shaft. Part of it is not pulling its own weight. The magnitudes of the shear stresses and moment arms in the center of the shaft are small compared to that of the outer portions of the shaft, resulting in the majority of the torque being carried by the outer regions. So for weight efficiency it is better to eliminate this lazy portion of the shaft and use a hollow cross-section. We already know that for such a hollow cross-section the same linear stress distribution of a solid shaft also applies when the shaft is circular. But what if the wall thickness of the shaft is very small compared to its radius? As it turns out there are some simplifications that can be made which will make our lives a lot easier. For a shaft with a wall thickness much smaller compared to its radius the variation in shear stress and moment arm become very small through the wall thickness. It is thus convenient to approximate this stress state as constant through the wall thickness. To help remember that we are making this simplification it is convenient to multiply the stress by the wall thickness resulting in a shear force per unit length around the perimeter of the shaft. This quantity represents the flow of the shear force around the cross-section and is thus referred to as the shear flow. For the thin walled circular shaft shown here it is clear due to the constant radius and shaft wall thickness that the shear flow will remain constant. But what if this cross-section is not circular and what if the thickness around the perimeter is variable? To generalize our analysis we will consider an arbitrary thin walled shaft with a closed cross-section subjected to torsion. We will allow the thickness to vary around the cross-section however the thickness at every location must be much smaller than the distance of the cross-section perimeter to the central axis of the shaft. To illustrate this constraints consider the following three cross- sections. The first section clearly meets all of these constraints however in the rectangular section the wall thickness is not sufficiently small compared to the overall width of the cross-section and thus would not be suitable for this analysis. Finally the last cross-section is also not suitable as it is an open section rather than a closed section. Let's use the first section to illustrate our generalized shaft. If we take a closer look at our generalized shaft we can analyze a rectangular element passing through the entire thickness of the shaft wall. In this shaft the thickness can vary along the perimeter but it is constant along the length of the shaft due to the constant cross-section. If we zoom in on this element and examine the shear flow distribution we can see that along BC we will allow the shear flow to vary from QB at point B to QC at point C. As the cross-section of the shaft is constant the thickness along length AB is constant and equal to the thickness at B. Combined with the principle of complementary shear stress this means that the shear flow along length AB and the shear flow at A along AD are both equal to QB. Repeating the same for the bottom half of the element we obtain that the shear flow along length DC is equal to QC. With the shear flows defined we can now enforce equilibrium along the length of the shaft. Looking at the forces acting in the direction of the axis of the shaft we find that the resultant shear force QB times DX along length AB is equal to the resultant shear force QC times DX along length DC. Simplifying we find that QB must equal QC and thus the shear flow is constant around the perimeter of the section. So shear flow is constant around the perimeter of a closed thin walled shaft subjected to torsion. This is quite handy and will result in a simplified torsion formula for thin walled shafts but don't confuse a constant shear flow with a constant shear stress. Shear flow is the product of the average shear stress through the thickness with the wall thickness itself. For a constant shear flow if the wall thickness increases the shear stress has to decrease in order to maintain the same flow. This is analogous to a constant flow rate through a variable section pipe. If the pipe cross section increases the velocity of the fluid decreases to maintain the same flow rate.


We'll rewind to last year in the Walker-Hackensack-Aggley baseball team won 21 games before falling just one shy of state. Even after losing some key guys from that roster, this Wolves team is more than ready to take the next step. Any time a team has to replace five senior all-conference players, that usually poses some questions. But for the Walker-Hackensack-Aggley baseball team, well, they've had the answers. A 14-in-one record and ranked number seven in Classing L.A. Coach Leen and Coach Graven are, they just do the same thing every year and seem to be working so I try to fix something that's not broken. Their method, score a lot of runs, play solid defense and get strong outings on the mound. It's really big having three seniors as your main pitchers because they don't get overwhelmed in games. They know what to do when it comes down in the moment. Kevin Smith, Jack Noggle and Phil Kengis are the three senior leaders that sit two through four in the lineup and the top three spots in the rotation. This is Kevin and so Phil and I just do our best to fill our roles and make sure nothing bad happens after Kevin comes out of the game and then he comes in. We've had some really good games from all three of them and I think all three of them are pitchers in the later. So that's pretty amazing for a high school baseball. Only 31 runs surrendered by this rotation this season, a little over two a game. So this team also gets it done at the point, leading the state in runs. Top five hitters we have have really, really hit the ball really well. I think the bottom four guys are, they're young kids but they've had some really big of bats for us all year long. And the guy who leads this team off and sets the tone at the top was an Arizona last season. I've moved here and they've all just made me feel like I've been here the whole time. Most of them tell me they forget that I haven't even moved here. Like I've been with them all year and it's been my whole life. Junior Edgar Fike Anderson has slid right in at third base and been a huge addition to this roster. She made a play last week that I haven't seen a high school kid making a long, long time. So he's been a welcome addition. He leads off, gets on base, steal bases and he's been, he's had a solid year. So with a mixture of senior leadership, youngsters and even newcomers, the Wolves look to avenge last year's section final loss and reach their goal to state. It'd be absolutely amazing to step in with these guys and go that far. I mean we're a family already so I think if that would happen it'd be sort of a dream come true. The Wolves are currently on a 10 game winning streak and have already captured the Northland Conference crown. They finish up their regular season Tuesday night against Pequot Lake. Still a cool story though losing all those all-conference players last year and it doesn't seem like they missed them at all. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of OutSystems Next Step 2020, brought to you by OutSystems. I'm Stu Miniman and welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of OutSystems Next Step. Of course, one of the items that we've been talking a lot in the industry is about how artificial intelligence, machine learning are helping people as we go beyond what really human scale can do and we need to be able to do things more machine scale to help us really dig into this topic. Happy to welcome to the program first-time guest, Antonio Allegria. He is the head of artificial intelligence at OutSystems. Antonio, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Stu. I'm really happy to be here and really talk a little bit about what we're doing at OutSystems to help our customers and our leveraging AI to get to those goals. Wonderful. So I saw ahead of the event a short video that you did and talked about extreme agility with no limits. So, you know, before we dig into the product itself, maybe if you could just, you know, how should we be thinking about AI?  Listen to the big analyst firms, you know, the journey, its big steps and something that is pretty broad. So when we're talking about AI, you know, what does that mean to you? What does that mean to your customers? Yeah, so AI at OutSystems really speaks to the vision and the core strategy we have for our product, which is, you know, if you saw the keynote, you know, we talk about, you know, really enabling every company, even those that, you know, that have existed for decades, perhaps have a lot of legacy to become, you know, leading elite cloud software development companies and really can develop digital solutions at scale really easily. But one thing we see, and then this is a big statistic, one of the things that limits CIOs the most nowadays is really the lack of talent, lack of, you know, engineering and software engineering, you know, ability in people that can do that. And there's a statistic that was reported by Wall Street Journal, I saw it recently, perhaps last year, that said that according to federal jobs data in the US, by the end of 2020, there would be about a million unfilled IET and software development jobs available, right? So there's this big problem that all of these companies really need to scale, really need to invest in digital systems. And so our belief at OutSystems, we've already been abstracting and we've been focusing on automating as much as possible the software development tools and applications that we use. We've already seen amazing stories of people coming from different backgrounds, really starting to develop really leading edge applications. And we want to take this to the next level. And we believe that artificial intelligence with machine learning, but also with other AI technologies that we're also taking advantage of can really help us get to a next stage of productivity. So from 10x productivity to 100x productivity. And we believe AI plays a role in three ways. We believe AI by learning from all of this data that we now collect in terms of, that projects are being developed. We are essentially trying to embed a tech lead, so to speak, inside a product in a tech lead that can help developers by guiding them, guiding the most junior ones by automating some of the boring repetitive tasks or by validating their work, making sure that they are using the best practices, making sure that it helps them as they scale to refactor their code to automatically design their architectures, things like that. What wonderful, Antonio, I got Gonzalo stated it quite clearly in the interview that I had with him. It's really about enabling that next 10 million developers. We know that there is that skill gap, as you said. And everybody right now, how can I do more? How can I react faster? So that's where the machine learning, artificial intelligence should be able to help. So bring us inside, I know the platform itself has had guidance and the whole movement, what we used to call low code was about simplifying things and allowing people to build faster. So bring us inside the product, what are the enhancements, what are the new pieces, some of the key items? Yeah, so one interesting thing, and I think one thing that I think OutSystem is really proud of being able to achieve is if you look at how OutSystem has been using AI within the platform, we started with introducing AI assistance within our software development environment, Service Studio, right? And so this capability, we've been iterating it a lot, we've been evolving it, and now it's really able to accelerate significantly and guide novices but also help pros dealing through the software development process and coding by essentially trying to infer and understanding their context and trying to infer their intent and then automating the steps afterwards. And we do this by suggesting you the most likely, let's say function or code piece that you will need, but then at the next step, which we are introducing this year even better, which is we're trying to auto-fill most of the, let's say the variables and all of that and the data flow that you need to collect. And so you get a very delightful frictionless experience as you are coding. So you're closer to the business value even more than before. Now, this was just the first step. What you're seeing now and what we're announcing and we're showing at this next step that we showed at the keynote is that we are starting to fuse AI across the out systems products and across the software development lifecycle. So we took this core technology that we use to guide developers and assist and automate their work. And we use the same capability to help developers, tech leads and architects to analyze the code, learning from the bad patterns that exist, learning from and receiving runtime information about crashes and performance. And inside the product that we call architecture dashboard, we're really able to give recommendations to these architects and tech leads, where should they evolve and improve their code. And we're using AI and refusing AI in this product in two very specific ways now that we're releasing today, which is one is to automatically collect and design and define the architecture. So we call this automated architecture discovery. So if you have a very large factory, you can imagine have lots of different modules, lots of different applications. And if you need to go and manually have to label everything, so this is a front end, this is a back end, that would take a lot of time. So we use machine learning, learning from what architects have already done in the past of classifying their architecture and we can map out your architecture completely automatically, which is really powerful. Then we also use our AI engine to analyze your factory and we can detect the best opportunities for refactoring. So refactoring is one of the top problems in the top smells and technical debt problems that large factories have, right? So we can completely identify and pinpoint what are these opportunities for refactoring and we guide you through it, we tell you, okay, all of these hundreds of functions and logic patterns that we see in your code, you could refactor this into a single function and you can save a lots and lots of code because as you know, the best code, the fastest code, the easiest to maintain is the code you don't write, you don't have. So we're trying to really eliminate code from these factories, from these capabilities. Well, it's fascinating, you're absolutely right. I'm curious, I think back to some of the earliest interactions I had with things that give you guidance, spell checkers, grammar check, how much does the AI that you work on, does it learn what's specific for my organization and my preferences? Is there any community learning over time because there are industry best practices out there that are super valuable, but we saw in the SAS wave when I can customize things myself or learn over time. So how does that play into kind of today in the roadmap for AI that you're building? That's a great question. So our AI, let's say technology that we use, it actually uses two different big kinds of AI. So we use machine learning definitely to learn from the community, what are the best practices and what are the most common patterns that people use? So we use that to guide developers, but also to validate and analyze their code. But then we also use automated reasoning. So this is more logic-based, reasoning-based AI. And we pair these two technologies to really create a system that is able to learn from data, but also be able to reason at a higher order about what are good practices and kind of reach conclusions from there and learn new things from there. Now we started by applying these technologies to more of the community data and kind of standard best practices, but our vision is to more and more start learning specifically and allowing tech leads and architects, even in the future, to tailor these engines of AI, perhaps to suggest these are the best practices for my factory. These patterns perhaps are good best practices in general, but in my factory, I do not want to use them because I have some specificities for compliance or something like that. And our vision is that architects and tech leads can just provide just a few examples of what they like and what they don't like in the engine just automatically learns and gets tailored to their own environment. So important that you're able to have the customers move things forward to the direction that makes sense on their end. I'm also curious, you talk about what partnerships OutSystems has out there, being able to tie into things like what the public cloud is doing, lots of industry collaboration. So, how does OutSystems fit into the broader AI ecosystem? Yeah, so one thing I did not mention and to your point is so we have kind of two complimentary visions and strategies for AI. So one of them is we really want to improve our own product, improve the automation in the product and the abstraction by using AI together with great user experience and the best programming language for software automation. So that's one, that's what we generally call AI assisted development and infusing AI across the software development lifecycle. The other one is we also believe that true elite cloud software companies that create frictionless experiences, one of the things that they use to really be super competitive and create these frictionless experiences is that they can themselves use AI and machine learning to automate processes, create really, really delightful experiences. So we're also investing and we've shown and we're launching and announcing at Next Step, we just shown this at the keynote, one tool that we call the machine learning builder, ML builder. So this essentially speaks to the fact that a lot of companies do not have access to data science talent, they really struggle to adopt machine learning like just one out of 10 companies are able to go and put AI in production. So we're essentially abstracting also that, we're also increasing the productivity for customers to implement AI and machine learning. We use partners behind the scenes and cloud providers for the core technology with automated machine learning and all of that, but we abstract all of the experience. So developers can essentially just pick the data they have already inside the out systems platform and they want to just select, I want to train this machine learning model to predict this field, just click, click, click and it runs dozens of experiments, selects the best algorithms, transforms the data for you without you needing to have a lot of data science experience and then you can just drag and drop in the platform, integrate in your application and you're good to go. Well, it sounds phenomenal. You mentioned data scientists, we talked about the skill gap. Do you have any statistics? Is this helping people higher faster, lower the bar to entry for people to get on board, increase productivity? What kind of hero numbers do your customers typically, how do they measure success? Yeah, so we know that for machine learning adoption at companies, we know that, sorry, this is one of the top challenges that they have. Companies do not, it's not only that they do not have the expertise to implement machine learning in their products and their applications, they don't even have a good understanding of what are the use cases and what are the technology opportunities for them to apply. So this has been listed by lots of different surveys that this is the top problem. These are the two of the top problems that companies have to adopt the ISOs, access to skill, data science skill, understanding of the use case and that's exactly what we're trying to kind of package up in a very easy to use product where you can see the use cases you have available, you just select your data, you just click train, you do not need to know the new degree details. And for us, a measure of success is that we've seen customers that are starting to experiment with ML Builder is that in just a day or a few days they can iterate over several machine learning models and put them in production. We have customers that have, no machine learning models in production ever and they just now have two and they're starting to automate processes, they're starting to innovate with business and that for us is we've seen as kind of the measure of success for businesses. Initially, what they want to do is they want to do POCs and they want to experiment and they want to get to production, start getting the field for it and iterate. From a product standpoint, is the AI just infused in or are there additional licensing, how do customers take advantage of it? What's the impact on that from the relationship without systems? Yeah, so for AI and machine learning that is fused into our product and for automation, validation and guidance, there's no extra charge, it's just part of the product. It's what we believe is kind of a core building block in a core service for everything we do in our product. For machine learning services and components that customers can use to in their own applications, we allow you to integrate with cloud providers and the building is done separately. And that's something that we're working towards and building great technical partnerships and exploring other avenues for deeper integration so that developers and customers do not really have to worry about this thing as well. Yeah, well, it's such a great way to really democratize the use of this technology, platform that they're used to, they start doing it. What's general feedback from your customers? Did they just like, oh, it's there, I start playing with it, it's super easy, it makes it better. Are there any concerns or pushback have we gotten beyond that? What do you hear any good customer examples you can share as to general adoption? Yeah, so as I said, as we reduce the friction for adopting these technologies, we've seen one thing that's very interesting. So we have a few customers that are, for example, more in the logistics side of industry and vertical. And so they have a more conservative management, like they take time to adopt, they're more of a laggard in adopting these kinds of technologies, the business is more skeptical, doesn't want to spend a lot of time playing around, right? And once they saw what they could do with a platform, they quickly did a proof of concept, they showed to the business and the business had lots of ideas. So they just started interacting a lot more with IT, which is something we see without systems platform, not just for AI machine learning, but generally in the digital transformation is when the IT can start really being very agile and iterating and innovating and they start collaborating a lot with the business. And so what we see is customers asking us for even more. So customers want more use cases to be supported like this. Customers also, the ones that are more mature that already have their centers of excellence and they have their data scientists, for example, they want to understand how they can also bring in perhaps their use of very specialized tools, how can they integrate that into the platform so that for certain use cases, developers can very quickly train their own models, but so specialized data science teams can also bring in and developers can integrate their models easily and put them into production, which is one of the big barriers. We see in a lot of companies, people working on year long projects, they develop the models, but they struggle to get them to production. And so we really want to focus on the whole end-to-end journey. Either you're building everything within the OXSYS platform or you're bringing it from a specialized pro tool, we want to make that whole journey frictionless and smooth. Great, Antonia, final question I have for you. Of course, this space we're seeing maturing, rapid new technologies out there. It gives a little look forward. What should we be expecting to see from out systems or things even a little broader if you look at your partner ecosystem over kind of the next 6, 12, 18 months? Yeah, so you're going to continue to see a trend, I think from the cloud service providers of democratization of the AI services. So this is a trend that's just starting to advance and accelerate as these providers start packaging. It's like what our system is also doing, starting to packaging some specific well-defined use cases and then making the journey for training these models and deploying super simple. That's one thing that's continued to ramp up and we're going to move from AI services more focused on cognitive pre-trained models, which is kind of the status quo to custom AI models based on your data. That's kind of the trend we're going to start seeing and that out system is also pushing forward. Generally from the AI and machine learning applications and technology side of thing. I think one thing that we are leading on is that machine learning and deep learning is definitely one of the big drivers for the innovation that we're seeing in AI. But you start seeing more and more what is called hybrid AI, which is taking machine learning and database artificial intelligence with more logic-based automated reasoning techniques and pairing these two to really create systems that are able to operate at a really higher level, higher cognitive level, which is what out systems is investing internally in terms of research and development with partnerships with institutions like Carnegie Mellon University and institutions such as that. Wonderful, why Antonio, who doesn't want a tech expert sitting next to them helping get rid of some of the repetitive, boring things or challenges? Thank you so much for sharing the update. Congratulations. Thank you, Stu. Definitely look forward to hearing more in the future. Thank you, Stu. Have a good day. Stay tuned for more from OutSystems Next Step. I'm Stu Miniman and thank you for watching theCUBE.


Good morning, welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 17th of February and this quick look at the week ahead beginning at 20th of February with me, Michael Houston. It's certainly been one of those weeks where it's been difficult to determine a direction, unless you're looking at the FTSE 100 or the Cat Caron, both of which have made new record highs this week. And I haven't changed my mind about the FTSE 100. I still think there's potential for further upside there. But I think what we have seen this week is a little bit of a change to the cosy consensus that developed around the 25 basis point rate hike from the Federal Reserve consensus. And the fact that disinflation was likely to be a one way route to the downside. This week's data have really, I think, prompted an awful lot more uncertainty about the stickiness of inflation. I think that's no better illustrated in this week's US CPI numbers, but more importantly than that in the PPI numbers that we saw earlier this week. If we if we look back at first and foremost at the CPI numbers for January US CPI numbers for January, they came in slightly above expectations of 6.4%. It was still a modest decline from December's 6.5%, but it was above expectations of 6.2%. Core prices were also stickier than expected, slipping from 5.7% to 5.6% due to upward revisions to previous months. Month on month numbers were in line with expectations, but I think one thing is apparent. While inflation is coming down, it's coming down slower than expected. And that won't give the Fed confidence that it is on top of the inflation problem. And that really extends also to the PPI numbers that came out in January as well, not only on month on month, but on year on year. December also saw upward revisions to the underlying numbers on both headline and core. So year on year PPI came in at 6%, that was down from an upwardly revised 6.5% and well above forecast of a drop to 5.4%. I mean, that's a big forecast drop, which ultimately didn't come in. Core came in at 5.4%, which was also well above forecast of 4.9%. Now, a large part of the reason for the stickiness, the increased stickiness on US PPI was higher energy costs, gasoline, natural gas. And while we saw a really, really decent retail sales numbers out of the US January numbers, a rise of 3%, that came off the back of two successive months of 1% decline. So November and December ended really poorly. In the US, we've seen a fairly decent rebound or more than decent rebound in January. And I think the bigger question is whether or not that's sustainable. When you look at weekly jobless claims consistently below 200,000. And you've got to argue essentially that the US economy is much more resilient than was thought to be the case at the end of last year. That would mean that wage growth is likely to be an awful lot stickier. And average weekly earnings, average hourly earnings are probably not a good benchmark when measuring US wage inflation. And that the Fed will probably need to go a lot longer than markets are pricing in or have been pricing in. And that's no better illustrated in this US two-year yield chart. We've broken above that cozy consensus of between 4.5% over the past few days. Let me just zoom that in a bit for you. There we go. This was the range bottom of the range. It's around about 4%. Obviously that was the payrolls numbers, which sort of the big jump higher ever since then we've seen US economic data surprise to the upside. And we've now broken about 4.5%. And we could well be heading back to 4.8%. So as we look ahead to next week, as well as looking back at this week's numbers. I think the thinking is now starting to shift. And we've got Fed minutes, which are due out on the 22nd of February. Now, if you cast your mind back to Powell's press conference, he seemed very coy about what was discussed at the meeting when it comes to differences of opinion, perceptions of how long rates were likely to stay at current levels. He didn't really push back at markets pricing of where rates were likely to go about financial conditions. He was directly asked if he felt that financial conditions were too loose. And he said that they were no looser than they were at the end of December, which to my mind was complete nonsense. They were much looser than they were at the end of December. I said September to November, December. I mean, this is the end of this is all the big round about mid January. And as you can see, they're probably the loosest they've ever been in terms of the two year yield. Since the payrolls numbers, we've seen US two years move back to where they were at the beginning of November. So we've seen a significant tightening of rates. And now the bond market appears to be pricing a much more hawkish Fed, even if equity markets are not. What's also happened since then is that Loretta Mester of the Cleveland Fed has said that she saw a compelling case for a 50 basis point rate move at the last meeting. Now that's really unexpected development because Powell's press conference certainly gave no indication. The Fed members were sort of leaning in any way hawkish and that there was any significant division. Now, Mester is not a voting member. So her views on where rates might go or that they're not going to have that much of an influence. But if she's thinking that, then who else was potentially thinking that and certainly Neil Kashkari, who is a voting member, has been quite vocal in recent weeks about the need for a Fed funds rate of above 5.25%. So that would suggest that perhaps her view is not an isolated view. And certainly James Bullard of the St. Louis Fed was also not a voting member this year and said that he could he could certainly consider a 50 basis point rate hike in March after having seen a slowdown to 25 in January. So these could all be trial balloons. These could all be just jaw boning rates higher to try and tighten financial conditions in light of the recent stickiness of those CPI and PPI numbers. Certainly it's having an effect. We can certainly see that in the US two year yield. And certainly also see it in the way UK guilt yields are pricing higher, even though UK inflation did see a big drop in this week's numbers to 10.1%. And again, that had the market starting to price out the possibility that the Bank of England might hike rates again in March. Now, let's get real. The Bank of England will probably still have to hike rates in March. Why? Because if they don't, the pound will go lower and inflation will become much stickier. They're in a whole of their own making here. They were behind the curve when it came to initially hiking rates. And now if they are to keep a floor under the pound and try and keep downward pressure on inflation, they are going to have to keep hiking. If the Fed keeps hiking, there's no two ways about it. One of the main channels for inflation within the UK is the value of sterling. And there's no way around that. You can't sugarcoat that. It is a fact. And the fact is that the pound is much lower now than it was 12 months ago. So there is a significant upward draft on inflation through the exchange rate mechanism of sterling. So the Bank of England will probably have to go by 25 basis points to 4.25% and potentially go even higher. Particularly when you look at wages, which are trending in the private sector of over 7%, likely to go higher because of recent new pay rounds, which have seen 18% for bus drivers. So the market is once again underpricing the risks of a Bank of England rate hike and the Bank of England potentially being more aggressive. So inflation is not going away. And while rates continue to go higher, I think there's a fairly decent chance that the FTSE 100 will continue to outperform because of a value as opposed to growth. The economic data has been better than expected. And we have seen the FTSE 100 hit my initial 8000 target. We're above that. I still think we can continue to go higher on the FTSE 100. We're certainly in the up, we're still, we're in the same uptrend that we've been in since the October lows. Again, if we get any dips back, we should find support in an around 78, 87,900. But for the moment, the trend is your friend. So don't fight it. Look to buy into weakness and stop, you know, try and avoid if you can to pick the top. DAX, again, that's traded sideways this week. It's been pretty uneventful. It's underperformed relative to the FTSE 100 and the Cat Caron. Nonetheless, we're still very much in an uptrend and the DAX should continue to slowly work its way higher. If we look at the Cat Caron, that briefly hit, sorry, wrong chart, that briefly hit a record high earlier this week. Just a marginal record high, I might add. That was the previous record high, 73, 85.4, 73, 87, 73, 88. So it's a marginal record high. But ultimately, the likelihood is that while the trend is in place, then we are very much in by the dip mode. US markets on the other hand, different story entirely. Let's look at the NASDAQ to begin with. Again, the NASDAQ is holding below the key resistance level at 12,850. It's still chopping around. And while it may not come crashing off, I think it's going to struggle at current levels, particularly if US data continues to surprise to the upside. I think the key support on the NASDAQ is essentially going to be these lows from the 10th of February last Friday, which was 12,200. So keep an eye on those lows there. S&P 500 similarly struggling just above 4,150 and then around 4,180. There are their abouts. It's slightly more, it's slightly more jaggedy in terms of the moves, but the bottom of the range at the moment is around about 40,50. But certainly there is also bigger support in and around this 4,000 area, 3,998, 4,000. But if we do break below there, then we could start to sink back towards this trend line support from the lows back in October. So essentially we're still in an uptrend for US markets. It's just that upside is going to continue to be slightly contained while the dollar is strong and the yields are reaching higher. Okay, so those are those are the key. Those are the key indices. EUR a dollar strong dollar. Push EUR a dollar lower. We've rolled over 50 day moving average. We found resistance in and around this 108 area 10780. As you can see that low there that peak there and that peak there has managed to contain the upside. The next support area comes in around about<PHONE_NUMBER>. I think the key level that I'm targeting is really the lows this year at around about 10480. I think we can potentially slip back there. If we if we look at these series of lows through here, there's certainly fairly decent support in and around the 200 day moving average, as well as this trend line here. So is that there is scope for us to move lower on EUR a dollar, not massively so I might add. Certainly I think this scope for us to drift back down towards this trend line in this period of dollar strength as we head towards that next fed meeting in March. Now I mean the ECB is still talking tough when it comes to rate policy. That's helping EUR sterling. But sterling is obviously suffering on the back of the fact that markets think rightly or wrongly that the ECB has more scope to raise rates than the Bank of England. And I suppose in some respects, they do. Certainly, I think we're already we already know we're getting another 50 basis points in March from the ECB because Lagarde, Madame Lagarde has said so. The bigger question is really what comes after that. But certainly I think in terms of what we're seeing in EUR sterling. The line of least resistance looking at the price action is for a potential move back to these peaks in February of around about 8980. What happens after that is anybody's guess. But if we look at the way EUR sterling has behaved over the course of the past year, it's consistently found the air very thin above 8980 and a struggle to really make any sort of tangible gains anytime that it's moved above that particular level. So I'm certainly not calling for a move much above 90, even at this stage in time. I've seen a significant shift in my bearish dolly end view. Certainly if we look at the way the price action has behaved over the course of the past few days, the bullish, the high yields that we're seeing across the US yield curve is helping push dolly end higher. Obviously, we do get a new central bank of Japan, a bank of Japan governor, the waiter in April. He's probably not likely to be as dovish as Coroda, but we are still two or three months away from his appointment. So there's certainly plenty of time in the interim for the dollar to potentially go back to the 200 day moving average, which is above 136, as well as obviously this cloud resistance here this red line here, which we can ascertain comes in. We just rolled that cursor in there. We can tell the value of that Kumo two line is 13795 that's on the left hand side of the graph. There you got a value window. Got Ichimoku Kumo one Kumo two 131 96 on the downside and 13795 on the upside. Obviously that then moves down as you move it across. But these Kumo lines generally do tend to act as fairly decent support and resistance. So, certainly, I think there's potential for us to move to the 200 day moving average of 13674 potentially 13795. If we move beyond that, but obviously these lines could start to coincide sometime next week so they could become one and the same as time goes by. So certainly keep an eye on Kumo two and the 200 day moving average when looking at dollar yen. Okay, so as I say we've got the Fed minutes on Wednesday. The interventions by Mester and Bullard make for a little bit of a change to the narrative and does and essentially raises two questions. These two questions are one is to how many other Fed members saw a compelling case for a 50 basis point move at the last meeting. Okay, and in two, how much could that have shifted over the last few weeks in light of the recent strength of us data. The minutes should answer question number one. Question number two will take a little bit longer to answer and ultimately will need to see more data but certainly in terms of labor market in terms of broader economic data, the move to lower inflation is likely to be a choppy one and likely to invite further Fed rate hikes over the course of the next few next few weeks and months, which yes will get a hike in March. It'll probably be 25 and we will probably get a hike in May and we could will see further hikes into the summer months as well. We've got the US core PCE deflator on the 24th. That's fallen back sharply in the last two months of November in December. The big question is whether that trend continues in January. So the PCE deflated could actually take some of the edge off yields. If it continues to fall, if it doesn't and does what CPI and PPI did, then obviously that will reinforce the higher yields narrative that we've seen start to play out in the US bond markets. We've also got fourth quarter GDP second iteration of fourth quarter GDP from the US. That's likely to remain unchanged at around about 2.9%. And personal consumption was a little bit disappointing at the end of last year. I think in Q1, though, that that's going to bounce back very, very strongly, particularly with respect to the US retail sales, which saw which saw a very strong bounce back in the control group, which generally is well is positive for the US economy because the control group measure of retail sales is included in US GDP calculations. So that would suggest that we're going to see a very strong Q1 if that continue if the trend continues on the back of a strong January into February and March. In terms of earnings or sorry before I mention before I say anything else we've got EU CPI. And again here, we've seen a little bit of softening there. Recent German CPI numbers would appear to suggest it's a little stickier than perhaps the ECB would like. The most recent flash numbers for January saw headline CPI fall from 9.2 to 8.5%, which was a bigger fall than expected, but core prices increased. They didn't fall they went up so they went up to 5.2% on an annualized basis from 5.1. So, again, headline pressures headline inflation is easing core is rising. And that's the key measure that we really need to be paying attention to as traders and investors. In terms of earnings this week. Banks continue. We've seen disappointing reactions to now West's latest numbers that the share price as I speak is down 6%. You can see that in this little graph here big fall there, but it's well off the lows. And the fact of the matter is I think it's that is well overdone that reaction because they posted a decent set of numbers. But in the key three numbers the share price dropped quite sharply. It's a lot higher now. So I think we could be seeing a similar sort of reaction play out this week. We've got Lloyd's banking group. Full year numbers. See if I can get my words out. Again, we've seen a little bit of a drop back today on the back of the Nat West numbers and a little bit of what I would call a sympathy move lower. But again, if if if Nat West Q4 numbers are any guide. There's only been a very modest slowdown in mortgage lending. There was a little bit of an outflow in current account balances and deposits in Q4, mainly down to the fact that I think people were dipping into their savings. But if we look at the overall direction of travel when it comes to the Lloyd's Bank share price, it's still very positive. And we saw retail sales in January come in slightly better than expected this morning. So certainly there's a decent trend line on the Lloyd's, the recent move higher in the Lloyd's Bank share price as long as we stay above that broader trend line higher than the uptrend should remain intact. And what's actually encouraging I think to me is that we've been able to hold above this series of peaks through here and about 48p. And what is also interesting about Lloyd's Bank shares is that the bank is more profitable than it's ever been over the last 10 years. And yet it's still well below the levels it was pre COVID, which suggests to me that of all the banks. There's some serious underperformance going on there, and perhaps as long as things continue to not look as bad or as dark as people think there is certainly potential for an awful lot more upside when it comes to the trend that we're currently seeing play out at the moment. Rolls Royce, another one here which has been a serial under performer has gone and started to gain traction towards the upside again, a little bit of a top here in and around 115p seen a little bit of a pause. We're currently holding above 105. I think the big question here is that, you know, what's the new CEO going to, what's the narrative the new CEO to fan.  When he took over earlier this year he really didn't hold back. When he was talking about the challenges facing the current business he likened the company to a burning platform, his words sent shares off their recent highs you can see that there. They found a bit of a base at around about 104 and they've gone and back and retested those highs. One of the quite I mean there's no question company has its problems. Heavy reliance on its civil area aerospace division was and still is to a certain extent a notable weak spot but even here there are grounds for optimism. Airlines are returning to their pre covid flying patterns. You look at the airline numbers that we've seen this year. Easy jet Ryan air whiz air jet to two II AG British Airways. Lufthansa KLM. They're all ramping up their timetables and as long as we don't get a repeat of what we saw last summer. Then it could be a fairly good summer for airlines. Rolls Royce is one and order from Air India or Airbus is one and order for air India for a whole host of new jets powered by Rolls Royce engines. So, certainly I think in terms of what we're looking at going forward. The big question is how much bad news is already in the price. I mean look at the share price. I mean the decline has been. Well, it speaks for itself back in July August 2018. The shares were up at 343 374. They're barely below 115 now so an awful lot of the bad news is in the price. The big question is, can Rolls Royce continue to improve improve its cash flow and start to generate a consistent cash flow and a consistent profit. And I think that's what investors will be looking for when they look ahead to this week's four year numbers. So that's Rolls Royce that we're looking at for later this week and that is on the 23rd of February. Lloyd's Banking Group is on the 22nd. We've got HSBC as well on the 21st. We've also got a couple of big US earnings numbers and we've got IAG as well. We've got four year numbers from on the 24th and they've got off to a flyer this year as well as I mentioned when I was talking about Rolls Royce. So keep an eye out for their four year numbers on the 24th. Nvidia going to look at Nvidia chip maker. Again that's performed fairly well in recent days and recent weeks if I can actually get the chart to load. Let's just kill that because I don't think it wants to play. It took its time. There we go. So again that's finding a little bit of resistance at around about $230, $230. And in terms of its Q4 guidance, its Q4 guidance, revenue guidance was $6 billion plus or minus 2%. It has had its problems but I think one of the things that it should do well from is demand for higher specification AI chips. Nvidia is a key supplier in this area. Professor expected to come in at 81 cents a share and after a disappointing first half, perhaps the outlook for Nvidia could be an awful lot better than was thought to be the case when we were talking about the numbers back in Q3. Okay, so I think that's it for this week also Walmart. Don't forget Walmart, that's a good gauge of the US consumer. Keep an eye out for those numbers on the 21st Q4 full year. Given the fact that retail sales were so strong in January, perhaps we could see a decent set of numbers from Walmart. Anyway, that's it for this week, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for listening. This is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.


Let's go along to the closing ceremony of the iconic trade-wise Trivraldechance Festival. I'm international master Tanya Sachdev. Sit back and enjoy the celebrations. We started with eight top grandmasters fighting for the top spot. Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vacher made it to the playoffs. Before it all started, we got our participants to tell us who they were rooting for. If I were forced to put a hundred pounds on the winner, I'd put my money on Hikaru. My favourite would be Maxime, he has a very uncompromising style. He always goes for a win, even with the black business. Maxime Vacher, I'm rooting for Hikaru because he speaks some Italian. I'm rooting for MvL, I think he's got better chances. He's definitely MvL, I mean MvL is French and I am too. I hope he wins. To be honest, I think that Nakamura might be a little bit stronger and rapid. I want Nakamura to win. Hikaru Nakamura beat Maxime in the playoffs. It was fighting chess and sportsmanship at its highest level, a treat for chess lovers. Hikaru is the big winner of the trade-wise Trivraldechance Festival. Anna Muzichuk also had a great tournament finishing first in the women's section. The festival has one champion but many winners. The days play got up with them. Yeah, I think I played quite well, with the exception of a few moments and maybe one or two games. I played quite well, I mean there always are going to be errors, there always are going to be things you're not happy with. But overall, I'm pretty happy with how I played. In general, the tournament was great and I am thankful to the organisers and sponsors for making it better and better every year. And for me, it was very good in the very beginning, I won the first three games. But then, I got a very tough opponent and I lost two games. I managed to win the last three games, which were very important. In general, I'm quite happy with my play here, so that's fine. Of course, I would have preferred to win, but that's life. Of course, I'm very happy to win the event because it was one of my dreams to win the first prize. I don't really have any plans for a celebration, honestly. I wasn't expecting to win, so it's nice to win. But even now, I don't think I've quite realised I won, because really the thought just never occurred to me. So maybe that's why I won, in fact. But I'm probably not going to be celebrating. We are really, as a government, really, really proud of sponsoring, helping and supporting the tournament for many years to come. Thank you very much. Girls, come back. We'll continue to support you. We have 50 this year. We need 60 next year. Let's make it a real party next year. Thank you very much. That was a great night, but it's a wrap for the day's play at the Trade Watch of Royal Duchess Festival 2016. We'll be back next year. See you then. It's bye for now.