raymond yeung, senior economic at greater china, joining us from hong kong. that's the data, that's the analysis. how has it impacted markets in asia? sri is there to tell us all. hi, sri. >> hi there, ross. in the prior session remember, i was telling you the market was perhaps trying to front run softer numbers, both the greater china markets in hong kong and shanghai were down. i would say the market reaction suggests some skepticism associated with the data. remember 7.4% still represents a slowdown. yes, it is mildly better than what most in the market was looking for. bear in mind, the hang seng and shanghai both came off from session highs. similar story for the aussie dollar interestingly. did make a run on 94. couldn't quite get there, 9380 was best we got. that was the session high. the interday chart has been peeling off. aussie dollar, a good metric at which to gauge the china data because australia, china, still very big trading partners. there's stimulus debate to be had in the japanese market. we got some commentary from kuroda, the governor of