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tom: alan jope geeking to us before he steps down as the ceo of unilever.down 2/10 -- .2%. for more that spring and joe easton from our equities team. joe, big moves. what are you looking at? >> and the u.k. financial space, this news just raking a few moments ago. stanchart being look at by abu dhabi. that stock surging around 10% in settling down to 7%. that is one to watch as we had through the open here in europe. also siemens up 7%, a big gain for that stock. they are doing really well on the automation terms of selling that into the factories and pushing the revenue guidance up according to the company today. credit suisse going the other way down around 6% for that banking giant, staggering outflows at the zurich-based company according to analysts. the last one i'm looking at is an tane. -- entain. they are suffering because mgm is no longer considering a potential takeover bid for the company. that has been speculated on for a very long time. very disappointing news with that bookmaker. they are down 11% today. do keep an eye on stanchart as we pro