Bloomberg daybreak europe. I am anna edwards. Manus ims cranny. We had a slew of earnings before the start of the show. We have more as well. Nus is womens lehmans mbers. They happen rising 11 to 12 . Second quarter, sales profits rise. Sales for the Second Quarter , 20 point 2 billion, the market was looking for 19. 7. There is a comfortable bit coming through and confirming the fullyear outlook. Profits rose 18 to 2. 4 9 billion. Have the wind of business wrapped in and the Health Care Business potentially being ipoed and the margins will be the critical point. Well have a conversation with ralph thomas joining us under 14 minutes time. We will talk margins. We have socgen. Anna the socgen Bank Reporting numbers. That is below the estimate of 863 million. If you added that back end it would be above the estimate but we will see if that is the Way Investors decide to look at these things. Investor Services Revenue up by eight point 8. 2 . They are making an additional Digital Investme
Hell drive down costs. With ceo ben then burden shortly. The r. B. I. Governor will not be drawn. This after leaving rates on hold today. We are less than half an hour away from the European Equity market open. It looks like a fairly fairly stolid a fairly solid start to the day. This is what you want to look out here. This is the percentage risk price. The ftse is liking a little bit. European isor looking up a little bit. A solid start for european stocks. We have solid gains across the board in asia. I am showing you only the nikkei and the hang seng. Some of the smaller indexes, especially in china overnight were negative and have now turned positive. Games and equity in asia, games and currency as well. The centralollar as Bank Leaves Rates Unchanged but gets a little bit more dovish and it leaves its main benchmark rate unchanged. It gets a little bit more dovish because it is not seeing the inflation that it would like to see. The pound up 1. 5 because of thin liquidity and high