 hi everybody 20 minutes before the top of the hour brian curtis in the bloomberg interactive brokers studio in hong kong asian equity indices are really being distorted here by this massive sell-off in tokyo a lot of this tied to a lot of strength in the yen the nikkei is down almost a thousand points now about two and a half percent dollar yen is at 149.69 so a lot of this prompted by the bank of japan decision yesterday to raise rates and it also announced plans