Welcome to the program, everybody. This is countdown live from bloomberg headquarters here in london. It is 6 00 here in london. Let us bring you up to speed. We have data out of china, just to tell you that it has not moved the market all that much. We saw a bit of a bounce in the shenzhen composite, the shanghai not moving that far. Estimates,line with industrials up. That is the macro picture. Keep an eye on a micro level, if you like. It is not very micro, but what could be the biggest brewing deal in history. I have a chart here on the sab miller share price, what a wild ride it has been on during the summer. We saw talk of the potential deal them. Inbev has a deadline to move the number of times. The latest is today, and we have had news over the last 24 hours suggesting that they might get closer to that perhaps removing the regulatory hurdles on the u. S. Business. We will have more from Ryan Chilcote through the program. We are getting numbers from carlsberg. We are of course
The FTSE 100 closed up 0.5% at 7976 points on Thursday. Today s action on the FTSE 100 has been driven by a combination of mining stocks and yield plays. While the commodity rally might be taking a.