according to officials who work closely with her, she wants to aim high foer an ambitious free tradeey might not be drawing up any fallback plans, at least until talks are well advanced. global news 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries around the world. tom: equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. we bounced up 16, nobody trusts that. spreads wider, just a bit. but yields have moved up. quality, you don't see that in dollar-yen. the vix has been the early story friday. 31.77 on theesday, vix. this is where the dollar was on the close and the 30 year yield was at 3.15 again. higher yields. francine: tom, i'm looking at a similar data check to yours. i'm focusing on the european market, which is the family off of the day's lows. equity futures gaining. the asian session, a sea of red, with china's benchmark tumbling the most in two years. i spoke to a lot of market participants this morning and there seems to be a consensus that because of the pattern of trading this week, it is a little too soon to make a call on whether market stabiliz