now for more on what to watch and how to position into the new year, i am joined by brian weinstein, morgan stanley's investment of global markets and brian levitt invesco's global market strategist. the two brians, if you will. i'll start with the gentleman standing right to my left mr. weinstein. let's talk about the yield picture and i noted that the benchmark yield is at session high, but session highs is a hair over 4.25%, 4.28 and it's a far cry from where it was at the cycle highs and maybe 5.02% this time around. what do you make of the move and is this a new regime for yields at these lower levels? >> yeah. it's an interesting question. listen, we came a long way. no one thought we would see 4.25 and we flew past it and is it cheap? we're about to find out. it's a bit of a new regime and the fed even if they ease aren't going back to zero. growth still seems strong, so i think it's hard. we had notes that were closer to seven a couple of days ago and it was a tough level and we're betting on a lot of slowdown. i think when you get in this 4.10 to 4.50 range you'll see a lot o