 Nice to have you with us here. 21 minutes past the hour. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. Doug Krisner is off this week. I'm Brian Curtis flying solo here, although we've got Ed Backstrom news. We'll get to him in just a moment. Let's take a look at the markets and what they're telling us. Asian equities are grinding higher. When we say that, we mean we've got gains, but they're not all that impressive. We're up about three tenths of one percent here for the MSCI Asia Pacific Index.