Opecs cuts may be draining the glut. The bank of japan prepares for unscheduled talks as the coronavirus keeps extra pressure on the economy. Help for Small Business tops the agenda. Downside are seeing a start to trading on this final friday session of the week. Overwhelmingly, the concern over these escalating tensions between washington and beijing, and now also, beijings expected move to impose the National Security law on hong kong and we are watching, in particular, the start of mainland trading as well as hong kong trading and trading in the hong kong dollar but in the meantime, we are seeing a downside view when it comes to nikkei futures as well as kospi. Sydney futures looking to extend losses of. 4 in the previous session although we could expect to see some modest gains when it comes to the Energy Sector given the gains and that story when it comes to the continued rally in oil prices. We are also watching trading in new zealand. We had retail Sales Numbers out in the last