asia. a brand-new trading year gets underway in hong kong and china in just under 30 minutes. singapore and taiwan just starting theirs. for a look at what it s going on, here is david. david: the regional benchmark is flat. if you take japan out of the equation, of course. a positive start to 2017. that being said, australia is at the highest level so far this year. tos goes all the way back june of 2015. that market momentum seems to be filtering through into 2017. we are not looking at any sort of volume there. at this time of the trading day. 2031 is the level for the south korean benchmark. japan is closed, but futures are s ill trading. still trading. singapore 120 points to the upside here, .9%. as soon as japan is open, we will be getting a decent bench for that market as well. three markets opening today, malaysia, taiwan, singapore. somen have a look at how of these benchmarks are trading early on. the tie index had a very good 2016. a lot of that comes down to the