and for more on this let's go to financial correspondent frankfurt chelsea delaney josie good morning we keep seeing a lot of new figures coming in from china and we keep saying well this means their economy is back on track help us put these latest numbers into perspective well what this shows is like you said well you've already been seeing china's economy is really outlier and the global economy they are the bright spot they're the only major economy expected to grow this year and that's in large part because they have been really seeing an export boom for much of this year and there are many things working in china's favor and the 1st is that it was the 1st country to to really battle the crown a virus in the 1st to really get it under control so when many other countries were starting to shut down china was opening back up so their factory sector has a has really benefited from from really not having many restrictions in place from not being hit by coronavirus measures and several months but it also city with the composition of the items that are really in demand right now china'

there let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney josie good morning it's fair to say that facebook has faced plenty of regulatory scrutiny and legal actions before how does this compared to what's happened in the past this is a very serious move by the u.s. so as you said facebook has been under pressure for a lot for several years now its faced investigations particularly over its data practices in the u.s. that this is the 1st time it's faced an antitrust lawsuit in the united states and this really has the potential to reshape the company the f.t.c. isn't just looking to slap a fine on facebook or impose some new rules it's really looking to break up the company that's been described by mark zuckerberg the c.e.o. of facebook as an existential threat to the company and seen by it by analysts and by lawyers as really the nuclear option for regulators in the u.s. so whether they will be able to really achieve the break up of facebook that the f.t.c. is talking about right now i think that's up in the air because it is a very difficult legal case that reall