Its been an active few hours as North American trade winds down for the day.

While we await action from Asia here is a speech from Dr Andreas Dombret, member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank: What's the future of globalisation? What's the future of free markets? European optimism in an uncertain world

He starts off by discussion the correlation between a nation's chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel laureates per population. yes, really!

Here is the link to the full text

And, here is Kylie: