Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, you guys. Hold on y'all. Sorry. I'm in the office. It's Friday. It's Friday. And I'm ready to swing. The computers are glaring in my face. So you guys, I get, I got up a little late today. It was still before six, but it was a little late. Normally, lately, I've been getting up between 4.30 and 5. Don't worry. I'm still getting my sleep. I go to bed around nine. So that still gives me like seven hours to sleep. Jamie's out of school, so there's nothing I need to be mindful of. These guys, I saw, I show you on the table, at least I think I did on the dining room table. Look, we try to keep our dining room table clean of stuff. Even when we're in the house, like half of it may have had stuff in it. But since we have that little board area up there, that's why I keep some paper and stuff. So try to keep this area clean, especially since you see this as soon as you walk into the house. But with that being said, I need to return that wireless, excuse me, return that phone. Speaking of the phone, somehow my brand new iPhone cracked. So I need to have the screen replaced, like probably next week, I'll get it done next week. Our bed, my husband and I, we need to take off the, we have a king size bed. We need to look up underneath and make sure that we can put that board back, the middle board and make sure it's secure. But if we can't do that, I'm going to go to Lowe's and get some wood just to reinforce it. Same thing I did with JB's bed, reinforced bed with wood paneling. That's it. And you just put it down there, then you put the box screen on it, and then you place the mattress. So your girl can do stuff like that. So yeah, that's it. Just trying to keep about JB was up. Just want to make sure to keep JB entertained so he don't be interrupted me with my meetings. But thankfully my husband doesn't start like I say that now. My eyes dark. My eyes look dark. My eyes are dark underneath, aren't they? Oh my God, they're really dark. Maybe I should be getting seven, eight hours of sleep. Anyway, this is going to be interesting once my husband starts to go into work because right now he has been picking JB up from school. And JB school is about a good 15, 20 minutes away. So I have, because I have meetings and I'm still working. School would be out here, we're in the end running of school. And so I only have to deal with this for two months. And my husband contract job ends after two months. Good, he me, he me. Yeah, he me worse than. But anyway, yeah, that's just all I have going on. And then y'all would go with me to Longview tomorrow. I already told my mama that we want to visit one sister. Last time y'all, we were so tired when we got back. We visited how many people that we visited three, six, three people, three family members. But at each household, there's multiple family members. Sometimes people just stop by. Sometimes people are there. And where I'm from in the country, put it like this, I want to go visit my uncle and aunt. She's she's my uncle is my dad's brother. So but her, her, her nephew came by precious. But we all are so intertwined that we still consider him my cousin, even though he's my aunt's nephew, decent, I'm saying like precious, precious is my cousin, too. Because baby, look, let me pull this up. Child, we log on to these computers. It's kind of slow at my main job today, y'all, which is good. Y'all, I'm gonna talk to y'all. Let me turn the slide on so y'all can see me. That's better, huh? Um, y'all, my morning, my early morning, baby, all that this morning when I have to do it, let me tell y'all what happens. And I have a meeting in like 25 minutes and I need to look at a another meeting. Um, went to Walmart this morning because I'm like, ooh, you know, I was gonna make, I was trying to figure out what I'm gonna make on Friday. Friday's we typically order in one and baby. So I bought all this stuff at Walmart. I accidentally left my phone at home. I know I'm talking loud, but look, I accidentally left my phone at home, right? And at first I was like, oh my God, I need to go get my phone because I really monitor my work email and just stuff going on through my phone. Like a lot of us do, right?  Y'all, I'm looking at the wrong area. Let me go back and get my phone. I said, you know what, no, I'm not gonna do that. I don't, I'm not gonna want any interruptions.  JB's with me because JB is high school off today, right? Taking my time. I get home about, it was around 9 20. I'm checking my work email and make sure everything goes okay. There's nothing really going crazy. I get a text message. I have a text message from his teacher and she's like, hi, just calling, just checking to see if JB's okay. I noticed, you know, he's missing from today. I'm like, holiday. No, no, no. I thought today was like a school day off. And she wrote a text. She's like, yeah, our calendar is wrong. And we sent that in the email. And you know, the holiday is, you're off for next weekend, next Friday. I said, JB, go put on your uniform. He said, mom, it's Friday. That's worth it. He got on like an old blockbuster video shirt and some stuff. I said, JB, pack some fringles and an orange. And I fixed this for y'all. I packed them a little ones real quick. I texted her. She started laughing. I said, I will be there. I'm on my way because this is a good thing because I was worried what I would do with him. Because since I have meetings later on, I have two meetings back to back later on. And he starts to get a little antsy in the evening time. Y'all, I'm worried it's for the meeting and chow. So I'm mad. So that's why I got the Margarita mix. Now, Farni Kaufman County, I believe is what's called wet. No, damp. I'm trying to figure out the terminology when it comes to whether or not they serve. There's no hard liquor here. You cannot buy tequila off the top. It's in a mix. But you just can't buy tequila. You can't buy, they don't even sell it at all. You can't buy it here in Kaufman County, which is okay because we don't even drink hard liquor like that. But baby, today I said, I'm going to need some little hard. So I got one of those Ritzy Ditzy Margarita mix to go with our chicken salad or excuse me, our chicken meal later on tonight. I'll show y'all what it looks like because this is knocking me off because that threw me off because it takes about today. It took about 45 minutes to an hour to get to school because since it's a geopsiness, this is a two-lane road, we were behind this truck going 30 miles per hour. I am done for the day with working. What time is it? I need to find my watch. 3 o'clock. I've already, I've already, yeah, that's my, baby, look, one of my, one of my meetings I was just, I'm not going to be able to share too much, but I'm literally, it amazes me how common sense is just not common these days. Common sense is not common. And both, both of the, the positions that I work in, I come in with a level of, I don't want to say that, I come in with open-mindedness.  And she said, you have no idea, reading. Child. Anyway, let me go ahead and prepare this chicken. I'm going to be marinating the chicken and buttermilk for at least, what time is it? An hour. Now we have an hour to do it. It'll be marinating for an hour. The longer, the better. And buttermilk just tenderizes the meat. I want JB to help me because I bought this mallet. He called it a weapon. He said, mama, this is a weapon. I said, yeah, you're going to weaponize this meat.  So cute. My husband went to go pick up JB by himself because I'm like, y'all have time together.  And this gives me 40 minutes by myself. Leave me alone. I don't want to hear y'all. Bye. All right, y'all. This is my chicken that I've tenderized. I'm going to pour buttermilk on top. That's enough because I'm going to reserve the rest of this buttermilk. I have a recipe that I saw that I'm going to use buttermilk with on top of drumsticks.  This is just hot sauce. I'm going to put foil paper on top of this and let it sit in the refrigerator and soak it up for a good hour. Okay. Hey, y'all. I wanted to show you footage of East Texas. This is far East Texas. And a lot of people assume that Texas in general is especially Southwest Texas is very desert and there's no trees. East Texas is totally different because we are only about 60 miles away from Shreveport, Louisiana. So it's a very far, a very dense forest area woods. So a lot of people from Dallas consider us to be from the sticks. So it's a beautiful country though, excuse me, beautiful land. So anyway, we're headed to my parents' house here. Ask them to let you play with. Ask them to let you play with it. Hey, JB. JB. JB. I don't need to use this. I don't need to use this right there. Hi. Say right here. What's your name? My name is Bunny. And this is my 80s, Vivian. We call her a Vivian, but her name is Vivian. My name is Vivian, but you call me Big. He's so cute. In a minute. Okay. Are you going to shake the shake, please? No, you should. Okay. Four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay. Ready? Go. Oh, I got it. I got it. Okay. Y'all see the cone? He's saying that. Oh, yeah. Okay. Y'all see the cone? Okay. Y'all got to run back and forth.   Right here. We go right here. Now you're going to go over here. Yeah. Let me see you. Oh, me. That's true. Do you know this? Yeah. The time they're going to lay back down before your other team. Take your time. Okay. Now your other team, your other team may come and run.


Are you any good at getting your way when your friends want to go to one place to eat and you want to go to another? Are you able to change their minds? What about asking for favors? Can you usually get people to help you out without resorting to brute force? Let's think about politics. When the conversation turns political, wait, maybe we'd better not tug at that particular thread. The point is that we use persuasion all of the time in our daily lives. The fundamentals that you might use in a conversation where you're trying to change someone's mind about who to vote for aren't that different from making the same case in the context of a speech. In this video, we'll talk about the basic persuasive strategies and some organizational patterns that might be especially useful for persuasive speeches. Let's get started. Truth be told, the principles of persuasion aren't all that different now than when Aristotle was teaching people how to persuade 2,000 years ago. Aristotle argued that three elements need to be accounted for in every attempt to persuade, ethos, logos, and pathos. Roughly translated, ethos has to do with credibility. Audiences want to know that a speaker is trustworthy, competent, and has the best interests of the audience members at heart. You can accomplish this amongst other ways through appropriate appearance, effective delivery, and a high quality of arguments and information. The other Aristotelian modes of persuasion, logos and pathos, have to do with different kinds of appeals. Logos refers to the use of appeals to logic. Generally speaking, we're talking about the use of evidence such as facts, statistics, examples, and testimony. For more information on supporting materials, you can check out our video on research and support. The evidence provided is complemented by the application of reasoning, which connects the evidence to the argument in question. Our video on critical thinking will provide more detailed information on reasoning and the danger of poor reasoning and logical fallacies. Finally, Aristotle advocated for the importance of emotional appeals in persuasion, which he called pathos. Where logical appeals are aimed at the mind, emotional appeals seek to tug at the heartstrings of the audience. Think about the commercials that you see on TV for the ASPCA. They don't just provide a string of statistics about the number of animals and shelters. They show you pictures of the most pathetic looking dogs and cats imaginable in order to create an emotional connection. As important as it is for a speaker to provide accurate and compelling facts, it is equally important to put a face on the topic and help that information to hit close to home for audience members. A persuasive speaker should always be working to find the right balance between all three of the modes of persuasion. While ethos is always critically important, the amount of logos versus pathos necessary for a speech can depend on the topic and the audience. Research tells us that audiences who are opposed to a topic are more likely to be persuaded by facts and evidence, meaning that you should lean more heavily on logos. If an audience is already in favor of your topic, though, you can use persuasion to cement their stance more firmly. To do this, a speaker should boost the pathos in their speech to stoke the fire of the audience's resolve. Now that you understand the fundamentals of persuasive strategy, you can consider which specific organizational pattern will best allow you to apply the modes of persuasion. We discuss some of those patterns like cause-effect, problem-solution, comparative advantages, and topical organization in other videos, so we won't spend a lot of time on those here. There are a couple of patterns that are particularly useful for persuasive speeches that we would like to discuss in greater detail. The first is need plan. Like some of the other patterns, need plan is not overly complicated. The first main point establishes the need for the change for which you are advocating. The second main point details your plan for accomplishing that change. If the need is well known, like the insolvency of the social security system, then you probably won't have to spend as much time explaining why a change is necessary and you can dedicate more time to sharing the details of your plan. If the importance and immediacy of the need are not as clear to the audience, however, like allowing college athletes to unionize so that they can share in revenue, then you'll have to spend more time establishing the need and likely won't have time to get into quite as detailed a description of your plan. The discussion of your plan should also lay out the practicality of your proposal. In other words, you need to demonstrate for the audience that your plan will solve more problems than it creates. If my solution to the social security issue means cutting all funding for national defense, that's a problem that I'll have to be able to explain. Monroe's motivated sequence is the other organizational pattern that is specifically geared for persuasion. Advertisers have been using Monroe's motivated sequence for more than half a century because it's particularly effective at eliciting immediate action from the audience. Motivated sequence follows a five step pattern. I'll describe the steps and show images from a commercial that may help you recognize the pattern. The first step is attention, where the speaker grabs the attention of the audience and lays out the goals of the speech. Next, in the need step, the speaker provides a description of the problem and describes what may happen if the audience does not take action. Third, the speaker outlines their proposed solutions and addresses any anticipated objections in the satisfaction step. The fourth step is visualization. Here, the speaker asks the audience to visualize the potential positive outcomes of action and negative outcomes of inaction using vivid imagery to detail each. Finally, the speaker pushes the audience toward action with a direct appeal and provision of specific and preferably immediate action steps. Did any of that seem familiar? Again, advertisers have been using Monroe's motivated sequence for decades because it can elicit a strong response from the audience when employed effectively. However you choose to apply the strategies and patterns of persuasion in your persuasive speech, it's important to allow for an appropriate amount of planning and preparation. Persuasion is rarely ever simple, even if you're just trying to talk your friends into eating at Taco Bell instead of McDonald's. If you have one of those two ton hideaway couches and you're going to ask me for help in moving it, then you better put some serious thought into how you're going to convince me. And if you want to talk politics, well, we'll save that for the graduate level work.


Well, it's a conference that holds two of the top four boys teams in Class 1A. The Northland once again is set up for an exciting finish with Castlegbina and Nevis the two favorites. The Tigers ranked number three in the AP poll with a big one coming up this weekend against number one ranked Northwoods. But first thing first, a pair of games to take care of starting tonight on the road at Walker Hackensack Akely. And the first bucket of the night goes to the Wolves Cole Nelson. We'll get him on the board here just a minute in Deploy, but shortly after Michael Anquist goes to work. Coast to coast, that'll tie it up. Player Wolves with the lead again. Gavin DeSquer goes baseline. Lead gets up to four. Tigers though would tie it again. Then Thomas Wormley gets it to go. They go back and forth in Walker. Nevis though pulls away in the second half. That went a good one. 58-54 the final score.


I think the roots of the problems in climate change can be traced largely to deforestation. And, conversely, the solutions also lie in forest conservation and increasing forest cover. So, the role that forests will play now and in the future is primary. It's very critical if we want to have any meaningful progress on the climate change discussions. Yeah, I mean, Nigeria is a very good example because we've been able to achieve to transform from just an observer to a full red-participating country under 80 months. And I think it's one of the fastest in the world. And we were able to do that because even though we started a little bit late compared to some other countries in Africa, we had the political will and we had the ability to translate this political will into action on the ground. So, we moved in quickly and put in the required seriousness that needs to drive the process and we were able to do that. And in doing so, we had the benefit of looking at the process in preceding countries and learning from some of their challenges rather than mistakes. And we were able to overcome some of them. And we also felt that the forest-dependent communities and their concerns are of primary importance if you want to move forward with red. And without their buy-in, that is their decision to get involved and actively participate, you won't be able to have any successful red process in any country. The dependence of the rural people on forest resources is so huge that it exerts a lot of pressure. There is a very high rate of deforestation in Nigeria. And if we really need to move forward, we need both technical as well as financial support because a country that loses about 300 to 400,000 hectares per annum of its forest means that we have to do to reverse that trend. We have to do twice that in terms of our recovery. So, that's the big challenge. And to do that, try to address that challenge means that we have to take multi-sector and multi-level approaches. Otherwise, we won't be able to get there. Funding is the issue of finance and even though there are indicators that probably we might get serious commitment, but the earlier these commitments translate into reality of real action. These funds are reaching the forest-dependent communities who are the custodians of this forest the better. The activities that needs to be done to fast-track this process will go a long way in supporting countries like Nigeria.


Hello and welcome to New State. Today we have with us Professor Satyajit Rat and we are going to discuss COVID-19 and the few studies which have come out recently. Satyajit, one of the studies is about this mask unmasked disparities and it has been done with a very large sample sizes of both the control group and the target group. It is a study from Bangladesh researchers as well as the US combined together. Now one of the things of course is that we should actually require a double blind study to state the obvious but not apart and also that we now know much more accurately than we did earlier the impact of aerosols on infections. So both counts we really have much more knowledge than we had a couple of years back. So given this what is the importance of the mask unmasked study and how would you look at it in terms of long-term health strategies? So let me make four points. The first one that you made is quite obviously even for the what ought to be obvious it is good to have empirical evidence and this is really good empirical evidence about the fact that masks help. Secondly, it's about a real life situation while this is a randomized trial. It's a trial not under controlled conditions where people are made to wear masks and so on and so forth. This is Bangladesh villages where as part of planned COVID interventions outreach interventions where you simply promote the usage the difference between these two is the making available masks for wearing and promoting mask wearing versus not. So this is in the vaccine language you will remember we make a distinction between efficacy and effectiveness. Efficacy is in extremely controlled conditions, effectiveness is in real life and so on and so forth. So this is a study which veers towards the effectiveness end rather than the efficacy. Quickly to interrupt you Satyajit, quickly to interrupt you. It also is not simply mask wearing and not wearing but also the study of the intervention itself that how to promote masks. It's not simply the intervention about how to promote masks. It's an intervention of how to structure a whole range of communications about COVID appropriate choices. I won't say COVID appropriate behavior but COVID appropriate choices to be made including masks but I think it's critical that the study incorporates free easily available masks in communities which are economically disadvantaged enough for this to be a major factor and I'll come back to that in a minute. Finally the study also allows us to make a distinction between different levels of masks and what the study analyzes is cloth masks versus surgical masks and surgical masks are really a whole category of masks where there is nonwoven material between woven layers so that as you point out a whole range of droplets ranging from big droplets to very fine aerosol level droplets where things are stopped at what size level things are stopped begins to vary and the study shows that cloth masks do provide some modest amount of intervention but that the surgical category of masks provides much more of a reduction of infection and I think that all of these together provide a really dramatic real-life empirical evidence for masks and I think that this is important for us to consider in the larger scheme of how we begin to live with COVID-19 as an endemic infection. I think those are very important points but I also found the one part of the data a little difficult to understand that it seems to be more effective among 60 plus people and less so among 40 plus people this seems to be little difficult to understand unless we think that the 60 plus people behave better when the 40 minus people did not behave so well even while wearing masks. That's almost well let me not say almost certainly but that's very plausibly likely to be the case as indeed the lead researchers have pointed out in various media interactions all said and done one of the things that the whole world knows about COVID-19 is that old people die and therefore it's not surprising that even amongst relatively disempowered communities under informed communities this piece of information has reached and therefore that the elderly tend to adopt more stringent COVID appropriate choices than the non-independent and therefore the with and without mask difference will be a little more strikingly apparent than that. The other interesting data that I found from this also the fact that the surgical masks got cost less than the cloth masks and that was something which I think should be taken into consideration while talking about masks. Absolutely but let me make the far more practical point that we've been making in these discussions over these past months which is that while we've been planning and arguing about public health facilities for severely ill COVID-19 people while we've been arguing about vaccine accessibility and so on and so forth the one thing that none of us have argued about in any with any traction in public discourse is shouldn't the public health system in India begin be providing masks for use by financially underprivileged people in communities and shouldn't those masks have supply chains of their own setup which are sustainable which are biodegradable which are reusable all of these boxes can be checked it's not that technologies are not available for this it is that we've spent a year and a half with no traction about mask as a public health intervention from the state and I think that this study underlines the pressing need let me make an additional science-based point we all talk about variants we all keep pointing out discussions about whether vaccines of one generation are going to be useful and to what degree in protecting against variants of a next generation masks are independent of variants and yet we have not planned a durable public health policy intervention that incorporates mask distribution and of course we don't need to discuss this but the anti-mask fervor which is at least in the United States combined with the right to carry guns which is that we should have the right to carry guns but not wear masks this kind of madness of course also therefore is you know to be combatted with what is obvious but at least those who have been talking about there is no scientific proof here at least the scientific proof is there but let us be very clear this is not a science issue it's really a political social issue that we are confronting second question that I have for you Satyajit and it's really connected again to masks as a part of a strategy that it's very clear looking at what we have discussed earlier on the question of vaccines that the vaccine adoption is so disparate in the world today that Africa has less than two percent vaccinations the United States has 60 70 percent vaccination Israel has they claim very high rates of vaccination but they also have fairly large number of cases now appearing of course when Israel says it has got a very good coverage they don't count the Palestinian enclaves which they hold within their borders and which they now say they don't have any right to send determination they cannot be a Palestine state but when it comes to vaccines they count them as not Israel when it comes to territory land they count them as a part of Israel so the figures are actually quite fictitious so I'm not surprised that their numbers are still high because of course they have not vaccinated the Palestinian population that live with them but given that apart it's also true that it does appear that there is going to be lowering of vaccine efficacy or efficiency after a certain point of time I don't know what the correct word is but that it's obviously the antibody levels seem to go down and we do seem to see again the possibility of infections so we are seeing with the rise of possibly even more new variants like Liu as it is being talked about the possibility that masks as you said being an independent completely independent of vaccine should be a very much a part of a larger public and strategy. Absolutely and let me make two points about this entire issue of beginning to live with the COVID-19 virus rather than having silly pipe dreams about eradicating it. Number one we have said since last year across the world all scientific communities have said this vaccines are never going to provide 100% protection nothing is going to provide 100% protection all vaccines currently provide more than 90% protection quite surprisingly robust protection against seriousness and death even from the current variants current crop of variants there is no guarantee that this is going to continue into the future but suddenly new generation vaccines can be developed and are being developed and will be distributed but the reality is vaccinated communities do not completely stop transmission of the virus they slow it down they reduce it they do not halt it completely as the Bangladesh US study points out for masks masks again reduce transmission and are therefore a very useful low cost intervention but they do not eradicate it all of these COVID appropriate policies and individual choices that we are talking about all provide incremental control over this rate of spread the numbers hospitalized and the strain that the public health system is put under none of these eradicates or eliminates the disease and therefore all of these become matters for the long term become policy choices for the long term and therefore the durability of these policies and the sustainability of these choices such as with vaccine accessibility such as with mask accessibility become major issues for us to keep in mind again and again we've we've discussed this issue and I bring it up again we need to get out of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the immediate acute crisis mode and think about them over the long term. If you think over the long term that the key to it has got to be public health it is not private health it's not protecting my health or your health and here is the basic shall we say the basic disaster that the world is facing that the rich are trying to protect themselves both as nations and as individuals and the cost of the larger public health scenario and all this talk about WTO the United States accepting certain you know weakening of the trips protection given to pharmaceuticals companies in the because of the pandemic all that has turned out to be hogwash nothing has changed what we find is the rich countries are trying to protect themselves and they're willing to give a third booster dose to their people while the large sections of the people today have not even a single dose given even to the health workers forget about the older and more vulnerable people India is somewhere in between but at this rate we are also not going to see the entire population post 18 population being covered at least optimistically by middle of next year that's what we can hope for maybe even longer but given what Satish said public health demands are if they're not met if they're not promulgated if they're not practiced we are going to see a continuation of the pandemic and possibly waves again may not be as severe as the second wave we saw maybe more dispersed but again possibly weight Satyajit last few comments on this before we wind up what we're discussing today absolutely and in addition to pointing out that the global that the rich countries of the global north are behaving in this fashion that you just pointed out let us not forget that even within India we have this clear distinction between the haves and the have nots we have it in terms of access to healthcare facilities for seriously ill people we have it in terms of livelihood support and effects on livelihoods for the for the well off versus the poor we have it in vaccine coverage we talk about our current vaccine coverage only being you know some 12% odd of the country's population but that average hides major disparities and again those disparities end up between have been between the haves and the have nots and I end my point again with the with the issue that we began with we have not even planned for mask accessibility for the poor of this country in all of these ways we need a much more public facing policy in place well as we know and our viewers know that this has been a really a disaster for the poor those who are disadvantaged they have those sections for instance like women and children have been even more hard hit schools have closed women have lost employment they have to take care of the home that's unfortunately the way the system is devised today and therefore we have they have they're under double attacks on their livelihood as well as on their social existence so all of this has also been highlighted by the fact that our GDP still has not reached the level we had in 2018 employment opportunities have really gone down it's been a huge hit on for instance against the people have made in this country and this is not not changing even today so I think that how we tackle all of these issues will depend on what something is said how we bring a public health dimension to this issue how we talk about distributing masks and vaccines in a way that it reaches all sections and of course other activities that is required economic activities required to sustain the weakest of our people in the sense that the inequalities then do not sharpen further as they're doing now thank you very much Satish for being with us bringing not only the health dimension but also the social dimension of the pandemic this is all the time we have for news click today do keep watching news click and do visit our website


Hi, good morning and welcome to today's products and focus. So last night we had us retail sales which came in Well-blown expectations all of a sudden the rate hike is completely off the table again pretty much equity markets have all rallied the dollar Has taken a bit of a backseat and we've made back some of the Some of the the gains that the dollar had made against a variety of different currencies And we've even seen dollar yen up and down like a yo-yo as well So it promises to be quite a volatile session as ever So if we have a look at the US 30 you can see on the back of those disappointing retail sales figures We had a big massive rally So we're looking at 17 895 as potential resistance. We broke above the 55 period SMA We didn't cross a zero in the MACD and we are looking at the next potential resistance is at 18,000 So what difference the day makes my foot most global equity markets almost all of them are all up today Especially Japan to do five which we'll come back to in a second. It's now at 15 year highs So looking at the UK 100 not quite a roses picture as the as the US session came off a little bit towards the end right there You notice that it stopped below 67 71. It's still there just now training above the 55 period SMA And if we do manage to get some momentum to push up above that then 6906 could be back on the cards Japan to do five so dolly ends up to be a big driver of that Having almost it's above 121 right now. You just see this massive breakout. So there's a stock on the Japan to do five Which came out with a massive dividend increase last night actually surged about 12 percent And this stock has got an unusual waiting on the Japan to do five So that's why we've seen such a such a big move on that index versus the other markets Not because the whole of Japan suddenly turn itself around in a big massive way, but Because this one stock in the waiting that that has had in there But certainly real strong technical breakout yesterday another push higher today The longer-term potential resistance and this is I've got a 15 year highs already bear in mind that Japan's been And stagflation for a couple of decades. You are looking at 20,860 as an ex-potential resistance That's a long way away from where we are right now. So if there is any Diamonds pressure there you will be looking at a potential springboard of 18 648 is being a support But the longer-term potential resistance is a lot higher at 20,868 and the Bank of Japan is just embarking in its own stimulus measures right now as well So things could be stacked up quite nicely there. So moving on to dollar yen You can see that 121 87 has been in play since the mid-December We've had a couple of Nivels at the potential resistance over the last couple of sessions specifically there on Tuesday Where we actually posted doji candlestick formation the last two days we've been down lower But it's a these would be hammers if they're at the bottom of the downtrend because we're at the top I'm not trying doesn't really count But it gives a bit of an idea that there has been there has been selling close to resistance But then it's been getting pushed back up by the buyers So 121 87 should be an interesting level to continue to watch on this couple days And today we do have some US data that could help drive that higher You've got PPI and you've got the consumer sentiment survey and that's at 12 30 UK time and 2 p.m. respectively Moving on to Crudall West, Texas. It is at the bottom of a trend looking at 43 spot 29 as a potential support level and looks to be the rally on West Texas crude is really Sputtering out right now. So I was looking that we were resonating around about $50 for a while there We are a good bit away from there just now good $3 away. So Continue drift might be expected. So moving on to gold Interestingly with those retail sales figures disappointing and the dollar moving up slightly against the Euro and You know, so so that's right with the you're gaining a little bit of extra momentum against you this dollar You would expect that gold would have posted something a bit more decent yesterday, but very volatile candle Doji formation at the bottom of the downtrend. So it shows a lot of an action Needs to pick a certain direction. We are moving a little bit higher this morning, but not with that much conviction Now if you look at the Mac in the RSI, the RSI has been oversold It's just about to break through the 70% level which being dick of a potential reversal Not it's not done it yet though. It's a couple you can see here on the screen Just a couple of pixels away and the slowster cast that there is is in Oversold territory, but it's not yet curved back up So if we do continue to see drift you are looking at 11 37 as potential support This might be the area where a lot of gold traders are waiting to try and instigate those long-term billows positions again So looking at your dollar, it's still an ugly picture, but you can see it managed to post positive candle yesterday It's a negative third to today only just it's been lower It's pushed itself back up the technicals are obviously massively over oversold But this is driven more by the interest rate aspect in the ECB stimulus package rather than the technicals But 107 86 the potential resistance and 102 23 stellar potential support Not really a huge amount to to talk about with your dollar right now because it's so far away from any of these potential levels If we look at cable it really came off again yesterday And we are very close to one spot for 813, which is the lowest that cable has been for some time We're looking at last summer in fact, so summer 2013 so about two years Which doesn't look great for the sterling versus usd sterling is actually doing okay versus some other currencies We have look at like sterling euro for example, it's okay But against the US dollar has had a significant drop in fact if I just go to my drawing tools right here And we select the price line view measure from July last year to now From here. You can actually see that's down 13.62 So not a great time to be going over to the US on holiday Incidentally when you've had a big decrease like that But that just gives you a bit of an idea of off the moves that we've seen right here and historically how far back that goes so If we fast forward on to Monday to see what other economic data there is Not a huge amount Tuesday lots of CPI inflation data ZDW business report from Germany that should be quite good going on to Wednesday. You've got Bank of England MPC minutes employment data as well and crude elementaries And that of course, of course, this is a big one. You have to make sure that you've got that set there that's the FOMC policy decision on the 18th of March is Wednesday and This one is important because we're looking for the actual record in the statement about Their stance on interest rates fairly enough So that one won't be a big one So make sure you don't miss that one and as ever keep your eye on the chart for them Make insights popular going forward and join me again on Monday to find out what happened next