simulating attacks on the self ruled island of taiwan, this comes after a meeting between the tae hwi s just taiwanese president tsai ing wen and kevin mccarthy last week. the tensions, the international monetary fund warns of severe weakness in the global economy over the next half a decade. the fund says its outlook for global economic growth for the next five years is the weakest it s seen in a while. earlier on spoke to peter mwai, chief executive of xm australia and he told me situations like these are when investors may look to rebalance their portfolios. peter mwai. look to rebalance their portfolios. peter mwai. they look at market portfolios. peter mwai. tie: look at market interpretation, rhetoric, they said there and they say ride, are there other opportunities, the certain sectors of the markets removed from or other markets to look stronger out, gold or retail versus institution or mining, so we have a degree of concern and we need to wear this one thro