A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the market picture. The nasdaq up yesterday a percent, the s p just less than that the dow up a half percent. We had nine out of 11 sectors higher led by telco and energy this morning were expected to open higher, about 79, 80 points for the dow. The s p up 6 points. The nasdaq up 32 points. Tenyear treasury note yields rose again yesterday. Up to about yesterday we got up to 2. 66 today 2. 62 the trend of late has been a rising and steepening yield curve. Asian trade for you, strong across the board we did have a bank of japan meeting which, as expected, kept things in line as they were. The statement also very, very similar to last month. The nikkei rallied 1. 3 . The yen not doing too much off the back of the season a strong session across all of asia we talk about the rally thats continued at the start of this year the likes of hong kong up sharply. Already strong outperformers last year. Hong kong up 3. 2