john lyons of savills and arnab das of roubini. lot of markets flat-lined and part of that is because the investors are holding out. that's going to be bank's earnings numbers and agricultural bank of china is going to kick off the earnings of the big four starting in china tomorrow. plus we've got hsbc's flash numbers so we'll perhaps be able to get a glimpse of exactly where the slowdown is, given that there's been a lot of reverberations as to how quickly china is slowing down. alzheimer's you can see, more losses coming through in our key markets. korea down three quarters, australia down a half. the other is rallying by 1.7%. we've had quite a bit of weakness in japan and also greater china, flat-lining there. although the h index seems to be reflecting quite a bit of weakness, becky. >>> in the european markets after a weak day yesterday, we're looking at gains. 9.2% higher for the ftse, the french market is up by nearly a half a percent but the ftse across italy has turned a fraction lower. jackie. >> thanks for that, becky.