investment chief market strategist, evan lucas. it is a quiet day. not much direction given japan and the u.s. are off lines for the holiday. meant --st event events around brexit saw the pound jump. how are you assessing this development? will we see more certainty ahead when it comes to progress on brexit? evan: i don't know about certainty. the way we have been looking at this in terms of positioning, it's critical to how brexit plays out. the pound is the way to look at what is going on here. it is too hard to look at the equity side. we are biased toward a long pound play, either against the euro or dollar, all the way through to win the election vote in parliament. we have not got a specific date announced, but it is believed to be between the 10th and 15th of december. sort of walk away and wait to see. we expect to see these kinds of deals happening, particularly with the european union vote. what happens in the u k parliament and commons is that she has such a small window ability to get this through. her,ad letters but against people threat