agreat day, after the chinese government raised the tax threshold on the amount of money earned from oil income. as you see, giving a boost to the big oil plays in china. charles? okay, let's have a look back at wall street and the thursday session there. well, we had some gains there for the banks, jobless claims so it would appear were down. obviously there was jobs data which was quite updata. there's also speculation that the white house may unveil a nationwide mortgage refinancing plan. so let's have a look now at how trading is set to begin on wall street when the u.s. stock markets open this friday. so we are looking at a very, very marginal bounce, andrew. >> we certainly are. okay. charles, now, today is the first friday of the month. and that means we learn how the