London, this is daybreak europe. Animal spirits seems to be present. That seems to be the story of 2018 so far. Asity markets are doing well we said in our headlines, the dow hitting a new record, many indices hitting a new record. Msci asia picking up where they left off. Data fromd robust various locations, whether its the u. S. , china, or europe. All of that underpinning the strength we are seeing in these risk assets at the moment. We have the Dow Jones Futures in their. In there. Despite the snow perhaps. The jobs data it will be crucial, the two numbers we are watching, not a great start for the year for the dollar. Prices put in the nymex to show they were pretty stable after what we have seen via record run of gains in commodity markets. Around that 62 a barrel. Animal spirit in these markets, certainly a theme. Manus a couple of big things. Rises. Asking for 3 wage , the relationship is broken. Well talk more about that between inflation and the job market, but the animal spi