signals the economy is back in the contraction. it s the dividing line between action . taking a look at the 10 year yield, it was up slightly ahead of this report is basically up slightly, taking a takedown but essentially where it has been before. thes look at the effect on dollar. ae dollar index has taken takedown, up ever so slightly. sm have amisss for the i manufacturing for the month of august. we have the automobile sales for the month of august from the big the u.s. including ford, general motors and chrysler. we saw misses in terms of the sales numbers but we see the stocks are up modestly except for chrysler. for forward, the company managed to raise its average price per vehicle by $1200 over the last year. it looks like gm could have beaten the western a whisper number on the street. vonnie: fascinating, thank you. manufacturing is in contraction but some of the subcomponents are interesting. what s going on in london? 90 minutes left in the thursday session a