So far. And the weak economy, eurozones biggest bank post ago near 80 jump in nine months profit thanks to lower provisions. A bad call for erikson hitting Third Quarter profits. We speak to the ceo first here on cnbc on an extended edition of this show and that happens at 12 00 cet. Plus, manufacturing in china if a hitting a sevenmonth high. The country still on track for its slowest growth now seen in 23 years. He, everybody. Welcome. Yes, you are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. We have a lot to get through today. Theres a lot to talk about. First on the agenda, we have had the eurozone Business Growth easing for the month of october as by the looks of things demand has slowed substantially. Were looking at the eurozone pmi point to go 0. 1 to 0. 2 of Fourth Quarter growth. It fell to 51. 5 from septembers twoyear high of 52. 2. But what you need to take away from this 51. 5 print is that its way below the polls that have been out by reuters for an uptick to 52. 5. Were lo
time in two years. astrazeneca s first quarter sales miss forecasts. germany lowers its out llook. announcer: you re watching worldwide exchange, bringing you business news from around the globe. all right. welcome. we are reunited. back together. that s what my agent says. and how was it? i was worried about you with the bird flu. yeah, so was i. but i think i m okay. not a carrier. i didn t get any forehead temperature taken or anything. they just had the first case in taiwan and it was from a guy who was in shanghai. people are worried about it. being in hong kong, as well we did not sync that up very well. that s okay. you re back now. i can t wait to hang out with bernie. i think that s going to be a lot of on fun. he s great. you know what i m saying. yeah, yeah, we ll leave it there. i won t harass you yet this morning. too low interest rates for too long can lead to distortions and capital markets not very helpful in the eurozone.