reckitt benckiser reporting today. that stock dropped and it is leading the basket banks just below the flat line, trade and leisure, too from there we are pushing higher a big mover could be volkswagen on the back of numbers that beat expectations so far we don't have a symbol there. but the autos are up retail stocks bouncing about a third of a percent industrials are trading higher the nasdaq was the underperformer down more than the likes of the dow technology caught action in the early trade moving into the green. the two sectors where you see the most appetite, basic resources and energy space cyclical trade, 0.6% higher on basic resources. oil and gas moving higher by 1%. bhp at the top of the basket, it is reporting blowout numbers today. that's moving the needle on that stock. the ftse moved higher off that base with 21 points adding on to the index. not a bad day yesterday lifting the uk market off of some of its lows we saw a rally of 1.25%. we are backing up on the gains the french market got about a third