joining us now is sue noffke, uk equities fund manager at schroders. tensions has had an impact on markets. us and china trade. the situation in hong kong, which people have been quite fearful about. that has taken a pause. nicky was on tuesday. wednesday a little bit weaker. people are giving some pause to wear the protests go from here. in europe we saw some easing of tensions in italy, where the far right movement looks as if they are not going to be able to influence the eu to the extent people might have feared. closer to home, i don't know if people are fed up with it, but we have to talk about the impact it is having on the markets, the pound against the dollar, we have been on this one point to handle for some time. we have dipped to 1.18 earlier this week when people thought that no deal exit could really happen and be balanced to 1.22 but the events of the night that parliament regaining control. we are still very tentative and very subjective events day by day. sometimes hour by hour. when you think about where it came from, back to 2016...