The single currency crosses the key level for the first time in two years. Philip lane says it matters for monetary policy. Andy Swift Financial regulators and the swiss financial of creditart suisse over spying on former employees. Let us get some breaking news for you. Front, u. K. Housing august house prices rising by 3. 7 year on year. This is according to nationwide. 2 on the increase of month. The month on month figure is 2 . The year on year figure is 3. 7 . Very strong numbers follow other measures of stress. We have a right move for july. Know the reason behind all of this. There was pentup demand because of a lockdown. There was a tax incentive put in place. And perhaps a little bit of incentive to move to quiet, rural locations. All of that lifting housing demand. Solid numbers nationwide this morning. Lets get to the broader picture around markets, have a look at futures. For European Equity markets, fairly flat. If you excuse exclude the ftse. The futures picture giving us
Installed within a whisker of februarys alltime high. The cash trade is less than one hour away. Your are your headlines. Germany extends its Job Support Team until the end of next year, spains or rules out another National Lockdown as cases rise. Britains vaccine bet, the u. K. Backs a plan for a dnabased maxine. We look at a 50 million rates for a solution. And caveat emptor, u. S. Consumer confidence drops to the lowest level in six years. We will get the latest french figures out this hour. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at how futures are trading. Right now across europe, we are seeing slight green arrows. And i mean slight. You can call dax futures and euro stoxx 50 futures unchanged. In the u. S. , we see most futures contracts falling this morning, although also very slight drops. S p futures are unchanged after another record high yesterday. Nasdaq futures gained about 1 10 of 1 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna feel