david bach, president of imd business school, thank you for talking business with me today. you can keep up with the latest on our global economy on the bbc website, or on the smartphone app. you can also give me a follow on social media if you like. i'm @tadthnright. thank you for watching. i will catch you again soon. bye—bye. hello. wednesday brought some very heavy falls of rain across parts of wales and western areas of england too, caused some localised flooding, for example, here in shropshire. and shropshire was one of the wettest areas, along with southern wales, parts of south—west england. we had up to 73mm of rain around the brecon beacons, 60mm into parts of shropshire, whereas further eastwards on wednesday, some very warm weather for mid—october. we had temperatures peaking at 22.5 celsius in central london. the average at this time of the year is 15. now, over the next few hours, we've got this zone of heavy rain pushing eastwards and northwards, so heavy rain for northern england, some heavy bursts in eastern scotland and some heavy rain for a time across th