  There have recently been several claims of an asymmetric distribution of
large scale fluctuations in the WMAP data. I review some recent results from a
test of isotropy of the power spectrum at all scales and show how the power is
asymmetrically distributed for the multipole range l=5-40 in three WMAP
frequency channels. I compare this to a recent detection of a non-Gaussian
signal in one part of the sky using the local curvature properties of the
cosmic microwave background fluctuation field. I find that there may be a
common origin of these two findings due to a similar direction and frequency
independence of the results.
