I am Francine Lacqua. Manus it comes in just below the number. 53. 7. The Market Survey was for 54 . This is the market Eurozone Services purchasing Managers Index. That is just a shade lower than we had anticipated. Was about 50 . It is still in expansion mode. It is the industrial prowess of germany we are looking for. It has been called into question after we had the vw scandal. We had concerns about china growing. That is why every single piece of data we had is so powerful. Now, glencore shares have sore this morning. We have reports that the commodities giant is talking to potential buyers. Rocked in hong kong and is up over 10 . The company says it is not aware for any reasons for the movement and chairs. The bloomberg chief energy and commodities responder. Up 70 at one stage. Glencore does not know of any reason why this would ramp u p like this. If you look to us 10 days of the Share Performance of glencore, lets not forget we are talking about a 5100 company. They rarely mov
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