a fair bit of corporate news, worthbillion play for gen from china oceanwide.t did quite well in sydney today. , disappointingg last week ahead of first-half numbers. closing 6% down after falling 19% on friday after concern about the health of its books there. manus: thank you very much. great roundoff kicking off the day's news flow in europe. exportslk about japan, else continued to fall with weak demand. anna: imports shrank more than 16%. that left a trade surplus of $4.8 billion. manus: the yen has gained around 14% this year. let's get more from brett miller. why are we seeing weaker export numbers from japan, yet the markets were better than estimated, perhaps we should be more optimistic? little bit of optimism in the numbers not being quite as bad as expected. strong thisbeen year, up around 15% versus the u.s. dollar, and that has undercut japanese exporters and removed competitive advantage in the first years of abenomics. this year has been quite bad. we have seen continued weakness in global demand, which is that japanese exporters. of 11% and exp