credit rating going forward, all of this coming after we had news of the stress tests for the irish banks a couple weeks ago, showing they needed tens of billions of euros in terms of that to keep themselves on the go. obviously the financial secretarier in ireland very much at the heart of the downgrades we've seen from the likes of moody's and other credit rating services, pauline? >> let's take a look now, nina, at the markets in the asia-pac region and how investors reacted to the inflation and gdp numbers that came out this morning from china. asian stocks rallied early in the day on the news that the chinese economy is growing strongly at 9.7%. but it didn't take long for that high 5.4% inflation rate to spoil the mood. rapidly rising prices in china increased the likelihood of monetary policy tightening in the world's second biggest economy. overall the mood was somewhat downbeat with the key indices