Haidi you are watching daybreak asia. New zealand preparing to vote on saturday in its general election. We are counting down to the major market open. Australia has just come online. Shery the top stories, asian stocks following the u. S. Lower as fresh cpi data boosting bets on fed rate hikes. The u. S. And qatar withholding 6 billion of funding to iran as they look at involvement on the attack in israel. Australia looking to reject an additional as there are allegations of racism. Haidi breaking news out of south korea, the jobless rate for september coming in at 2. 6 in line with expectations although the labor market has loosened a little bit from the previous month was it stood up a 2. 4 jobless rate. 309,000 jobs for the south korean economy from a year earlier not to mention the jobless rate at 2. 6 is low compared with the 10 year average of 3. 5 in the postpandemic average of 3. 3 . We still have strength in the service sector, although risks remain for the south korean econo