germany has not suffered a large scalia attack like in belgium and france, so the d developmen haveve caught people's attentio. i can say that much. trading in positive territory. european investors haven't let the attack get them down. our frankfurt correspondent has been tracking developments. the dax holding on the gains we saw earlier in the day. why, exactly? >> well, it looks like a lot of economic global factors simply outweighed the material but local terror event in berlin. lots of mergers and acquisitions activity going on here in germany, a 60 billion merger. the media firm from italy is currently being taken over from france and wants to increase its stake there. we did get various economic indicators today, much better than anticipated from philadelphia. the index, the retail sale index in britain looked better than anticipated. the bank of japan is more upbeat about next year. all of those factors were driving share prices today. also here in germany. >> it sounds like business as usual. thank you very much. to italy's banking crisis, the government wants to set up a new