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The month. David is here with the reaction. It is not very good so far. Certainly, we are continuing to see the headwinds from wall street friday. The gdp number that came out for the fourth quarter, not exactly the most ideal. A drop of 5 to 2. 6 picked 2. 6 . That is what asia basically woke up to. Kicking off a new trading month, take a look at what is happening with the nikkei 225. I will get to why a lot of these stocks rising. We are down about 1 . Dollaryen at a threeweek low. The yen is stronger against its u. S. Counterpart, despite the fact we have the u. S. Dollar strengthening against most other currencies. Some safe haven plays. A lot of ecodata coming out. China adding to the woes pmi unexpectedly drop into 49. 8. We were expecting to see a slowdown. Data suggest that the first quarter, we will see a little bit of pain in china. South korea, we are flat right now. The trade surplus falling. We are looking at 7. 2 billion, still a hefty amount for the current account. Of c