Happy new year to all our viewers. Lets look at markets this morning. Coming off a bright session in asia, less bright in europe. Were mixed here the nasdaq slightly lower. The dow and s p slightly higher. We had a selloff to the end of trade last week, last year as well and that meant that week to date we had slight declines in the u. S. , but clearly still gains for the month, the quarter and the year Consumer Discretionary, the best sector for the quarter and tech the best sector for the year tenyear treasury, saw lower yields close to 2. 5 on the tenyear but ended very close to 2. 4 again, which is where we are now. 2. 43 . Lets look around the world starting in asia and see where equities ended up. You can see mostly higher for china. The hang seng higher by 2 shanghai up by 1. 3 . The kospi higher by a half percent. Better than expected data that we got out of china. Thats helping a bit here. The nikkei was just slightly lower for that session thats despite what we heard out of n