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julia chatterley has been standing by. >> julia has a better chance of saying shahbaz than you. >> she's been standing by across the pond. >> i called him kemba wood yesterday. >> i'll be really quick. i can see you're running out of time. reds to greens, 9-1. taking the stock down by 0.4%. we backed a nine-session winning streak yesterday with losses of 1.2%. a bit of tension concern, concerns over the tensions in the ukraine. we've had another ecb official saying conventional policy tools are available. push back again on qe, not helping, i think in the european markets. we're down 0.7% across the board. the frank markets outperforming chie. still watching the tech sector, not making my board in terms of gainers or losers. it's down by around 1%. we have the gainers of the basic resources. we're focusing on the tech sector here, in particular, nokia shares trading higher around 2.3% after chinese regulators gave the green light for firms to agree, that tie-up with microsoft was a $4.7 billion dollar. chinese regulators giving it a green light. they have regulators on board, including t