Welcome to daybreak asia, to you live from new york, sydney, and cutting down to the major market opens in asia. The top stories issue sops up ahead of the u. S. Holiday, traders looking at jobs reports and putting bets that the fed is near the end of the tightening cycle. Country garden said to have made a payment on a bond with a separate you on no. And softbank lining up biggest customers as Strategic Investors for their multibilliondollar chipmaker ipo. We are seeing some Downside Pressure today, but muted after the s p 500 saw its best week since june. We are in the Labor Day Holiday weekend in the u. S. , heading towards thin trading. What akin to friday it was interesting because u. S. Stocks rose but they faded after an initial rally as bond yields started climbing. We have a Strong Manufacturing number offsetting that optimism from the jobs data which showed more than of a controlled cooling which could perhaps lead to the fed pausing on its tightening again in september. We a