Joins those voting against the bill. Drama turnsip another page with apple urged to jump ship and change sides. There is a sickness going around. No, it is not what i had over the weekend, which was the flu. Really took the markets down today, the big tech shares, but it lifted another portion of the markets. I want to pull up a chart for you guy. You guys. G btv 4698. It shows small caps, which has been the laggards all throughout the year, now starting to see some life, some of the life fangg out of the stocks. Yvonne a different kind of flu. I am glad your feeling better, betty. Some of these stocks that have suffered the most this year doing quite well. Safety trade dragging things lower. Those demand concerns over the iphone 8, certainly weighing on the whole sector overall. Not a good lead up to asia shares this morning. Kiwi, we are continuing to see weakness after that surprise in the new Zealand Election outcome. Despite the weakness we have seen, we are seeing an upside sci 2
Rishaad the mood dark a new at the bank of japan. 2 inflation. A snapshinzo abe calling election, betting the stimulus package will help him back to power. Rishaad absolutely. We saw. Something markets rallying. Let us bring up this chart. 108. We have seen a gain ever since the topix hit a low after the last election, and it has only gone in one direction, essentially. July 2016 election. We have gone up, up, up. Will we see this snap election the same again for a market which is looking fully priced at the moment . Electronics makers are making the gains. Di,d day, actually, hai for the nikkei. Showing it is better to travel than to arrive. [laughter] thei arguably, one of reasons why abe is calling the snap election, to capitalize on the support and sentiment with his north korea strategy. That is also may be why we are seeing risk aversion in the market and it does feel like all of a sudden, investors are paying attention to the geopolitical risk. We had yet more rhetoric out of no