oil futured soared. nancy, help us understand the correlation here. oil, as you mentioned, had the most immediate impact on news of the attacks in syria. that s because analysts say many are worried about a broader geopolitical impact, the threat of risk escalation when you consider russia and iran are the major international backers of the syrian regime. this is simply down to gee or political risk. that el ps explain why we ve seen a bit of a safe haven flow into other assets including the japanese currency, the yen and gold as well, the prices for gold on the uptick. elsewhere investors would be normally keeping an eye on the u.s. non-farm pay rolls report. the big job number today expected to show an increase of between 170,000 to 180,000 jobs on the month of march. this is a slowdown from the previous month which saw about