Welcome. Youre watching the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters. Were here in london. Im guy johnson. Im francine lacqua. This is our top story. G. D. P. Came in ahead of economist estimates and dashed some hopes for large scale stimulus in worlds second largest economy. Bloomberg economist tom joins us from beijing with details. First of all, are we being overly aggressive when we said there was a surprise on the upslope . This is still the weakest data we have seen since 2009. I think that is a good way of looking atice, guy. 7. 3 growth in the Third Quarter was slightly better than 7. 2 expectations but only really marginally better. If you dig into the details of what is behind that number, what you see is continued weakness in the domestic economy. Real estate has to have been the biggest headache for chinas leaders, continued contraction in sales and property. That is being offset by the u. S. Consumer, a little bit little forms of exports a little stronger in the Th