Stocks are rising today as jackson hole gets underway, gaining for the second day. All the gray currencies, or little moving currencies against the dollar today. Sovereign bonds, third column. Wanted to talk about crh. Shares of as much as 4. 7 . Biggest gain since november. It announced the sale of its u. S. Building interior interior building productivity called allied building products. Beacon roofing supply price, 2. 6 billion. It is a chance to cash in on a business that has been more than 20 years expanding by requisitions coming can generate funds. One of the largest u. S. Distributors of construction materials. Separatenced a aggregate for 600 million euros. Shares are up by 4. 4 today. Gdp data out of the u. K. , level of. 3 was the expansion, back in line with previous estimates. Slightly up on the previous quarter. The first quarter. We will talk more about this with our guest in a second. I thought we would look at the ftse. Given the array of plunging share prices we have