we're going to go to ramin mellegard, who is at our nhk market studios this morning. ramin, good morning. tell us what you're seeing. >> good morning to you, ai. yes, the fed result there was pretty much as expected, as you just mentioned there, and we did see that with the dollar and u.s. bond yields falling after the fed decision. let's have a look at how the nikkei and the broader topix are reacting to all of this for thursday, march 16th. both indexes there in the negative, down almost 0.6%. we'll see how that goes through the morning session. now, tokyo investors may be focusing of course more on the fact that the dollar fell after the fed announcement, and that may be weighing on exporters. i'll check all the sectors during the morning session. that's also after the fed mentions its intention of keeping its steady pace of race hikes to around 3 this year. many analysts expected maybe perhaps a bit more than just 3. ai? >> ramin, you mentioned the dollar fell after the decision. what was behind this? why did investors sell the dollar, and what's going on with curr