Company. Persimmon posts a 30 rise in the first half pretax profits, while saying the countrys Housing Market is confident despite brexit. U. S. President trump announces a a reverreversal in afghanistan, but declining to give troop levels in a prime time address we are bringing you some numbers coming in from the Norwegian Pension Fund annual report returning 202 norwegian billion norwegian kronena on investments in 2017 fixed Income Investment returned 1. 1 in 2017 Equity Investments returned 3. 4 in 2017. Obviously the fund there looking to reduce risk as it said recently after really putting in some sizable profits over the last year or so. Lets look at the European Markets. We have got across the sectors pretty significant amount of green on the board most of the European Market trading up, looking at the numbers specifically were up 0. 53 across europe. Ftse 100 up 0. 7 nearly three quarters. We have xetra dax up 0. 7 . Cac up a half percent. The ftse mib up 0. 6 in terms of some