nedbank saying old mutual's announcement has no impact on its strategy. let's get to the asian market session. update us on what has been an interesting session. we did have some weakness, and then things stronger? david: certainly. before we shook off the cobwebs from a lackluster session in the u.s. in europe on drop thursday. right now, fairly solid. everything is on the way up. we are poised, barring any late drop in equity prices over the next 1-2 hours, poised for a fourth straight weekly gain. leading the gains, financials. it comes down to this solid session across the japanese banking space. you have a weaker japanese yen. plus you have yields on the way up in asia. 0-year look at where the 1 is in japan. just about zero. it resurfaced for the first time in about three weeks, above zero for the first time. that is the outlook for the markets, at least for now. another thing worth noting for asia, and you were talking about ,his, the pboc fixing the yuan strengthening the fixing of the yuan by the biggest gain going back to november. the largest a