markets are looking forward to start to move ahead again. >> that's a glimmer of something positive. but something that slightly worries me certainly has been worrying me in past weeks and for the week ahead is the oil price and the ongoing instability in the middle east and how we're quite exposed to it here in asia. >> yeah, well, the -- in terms of stocks -- some of the oil plays are actually doing quite well. you can kind of hedge yourself in that particular way. you're right for the economies as a whole, the oil-dependent economies is noticeable that places like korea. again, the market started to come off and underperform relative to what it was doing last year, which was actually doing very well on the back of essentially the u.s. recovery. but in recent months, we've seen -- weeks we've seen big corrections in places like korea and taiwan whereas markets like australia have done relatively