Youre watching daybreak. Asia coming to you live from new york, sydney and hong kong. Were counting down to asias major market opens the top stories this hour. Asian stocks set to follow wall street lower as strong us retail sales signal rates may be higher for longer. Dollar strength sinking apac currencies to this years low decision day for the reserve bank of new zealand. With cooler inflation and higher unemployment supporting another hold. Plus, china said to mull cutting stamp duty on stock trades as defensive reaction to a surprise rate cut shows president xi facing more tough choices. Lets take a look at us. Futures now down. The stock market had kind of a tough day today. Were seeing now some green on the screen. However, just basically still pretty much unchanged. And in fact, the the feeling here was that retail sales in the us stronger than expected. Why wasnt that good for stocks . Because Neel Kashkari, part of it at least, president minneapolis fed says he doesnt think t