Condolences to the victims of war. Singer laura, taiwan and kuala lumpur are just coming online. David i dont have anything lost to say. We are caught in this lul; between loll christma an new years. You look at some of these markets. They are basically treading water. Bobbing between gains and losses. Thats the case in new zealand and japan. At a lack ofg capital. Do you keep in mind come as we move into the last few days of this year, we seen a lot of money get sucked out. Malaysia, taiwan, the philippines, these are some of that have really gotten sucked out. We are flat in the regional benchmark. It might get interesting when china and Hong Kong Open up. Currency markets as promise, we are seeing Dollar Dollar strength come through. Thing is quite thin. Theres not a lot of activity going on. It comes at a time of the day when a lot of these banks in japan come up with their daily yen fixes, if you will. Have a look at sterling and cable. Lack of news . Im not going to speculate on
German figures. Italy is in line. The gdp portion, it is more important what mario draghi is looking at. Tom absolutely. You see the economy growing less in the initial estimate, which gets back to the carney announcement yesterday of a lower forecast from britain. You wonder where the dynamic is, where a economies will pick up in 2016. I have not seen it yet other than the one german item this morning. Belowne a touch estimates. The real question, how much does it have to do with a weaker euro, and how much does it have to do with real growth spurred by economic reform . Lets get to the first word news. Nejra you have the numbers from the euro zone as a whole. Germanys economy grew at the fastest rate in two years. Gdp rose7 10 tense of a percent beating estimates. Thoughfset record unemployment in germany which has boosted consumer spending. A report says the European Unions Naval Operation to stop people smugglers in the mediterranean isnt working. Lawmakers in the house of lords sa