Shells profit slides but the oil maker out maintains its outlook. Confidence signal [inaudible] we are talking to the ceo, the first here on bloomberg. And the fed. Sitting tight. Taking a waitandsee approach as it awaits clarity from the white house. Avp [inaudible] we are less than half an hour from the European Equity market. We will focus on all of the news as we work our way through. Weis start off with the screen. It is pointing to a negative stock. London looks like it will outperform a little bit. 4tinental markets down by of 1 . Lets show you what is going on around the world. The big story this morning is what is happening with the dollar, the dollar index, the bloomberg dollar index is softer and the and is trading at 112. 69. Up by around. 4 of 1 . This is what is happening with the bond yields. Have gotten more liquidity coming through. Yields climbing, prices are selling off. Lets get back to the real news, lets find out what is happening around the world. Deutsche bank s