sales, including owl of those outside russia >>> and bayer has sold its crop sciences business to basf for.7 billion euros in a bid to satisfy conditions set by the eu and other regulators over its long protracted takeover of monsanto the sale includes bayer's global seeds business syngenta raised $4.75 in a bond issuance last week the swiss seeds and pesticides company says funds will be used to refinance bridge loans for its 43$43.5 billion takeover by chemchina. mark patrick, the cfo of syngenta joins me on the line. congratulations on raising that money, but this came six months later than you wanted. what were the conditions that allowed you to proceed with the bond issuance this time? what has changed >> it's quite simple when we were targeting the bond in 2017, at that time we were then finalizing the u.s. litigation settlement and we were in position that we had to withdraw the pond because we were not in a situation where we could actually disclose the terms of that settlement that we reached with players in the united states. secondly at that point in time we were hopeful syn

take a look at the gainers that will kick it off with basf. a lot of german stocks at the top.bayer, all rising. look at the losers. down, could be a dividend call, moving down 7%. the next biggest loser, anheuser-busch. most of the companies we are looking at are gaining. the size is only getting side as well. guy: -- on the gaining side as well. guy: i want to go to the screen and talk about what is going on with euro-dollar. i'm seeing some spanish data. the year on year gdp numbers, 1.9%. the prior number was 3.1. the survey was three. weak inks really quite terms of the data that is coming out. interesting what we heard. -- what we heard from mario draghi yesterday. it was softening up before the numbers, and now a continues to soften up. mario draghi blew past the issue on whether or not the data is turning. he did acknowledge the fact that it is turning. he didn't seem overly concerned. 1.9% on spanish gdp, i think he is wrong about that. joining us around the table, mark cudmore. also joining us as well, kit juckes. 1.9% on spain, is that an anomaly? kit: it may bounceb