in 30 minutes we will speak to the former ecb president jean-claude trouche. that is something you don't want to mess -- miss. european futures up by a couple points, dax futures up by 12 points. can we extend the highs? manus: record after record the question is, is my pension fund fully invested? global stocks at an all-time high. 10 straight games. the u.k. is still the laggard and has always been the laggard. the unwanted child in terms of the new records and tallies. down in the periphery you have the ibex up 7% but when it came to the storming triumphant return it was the greek market 25%. the dollar-russian index was up 22%. in terms of individual names willie walsh quite happy at ied. their stock up 5%. operating profit up 81%. north america doing quite nicely. caroline will break these numbers down. lloyds has the first dividend since the crisis again. they missed on their overall headline numbers but a dividend of .57 tenths. they had more people he i hundred million pounds. cells be -- now, that is how the equity markets performed. i will use of mar