i'm louisa bojesen. glad you're with us today. these are your headlines from around the world. earnings in europe on the back of a disappointing performance and the bank of its investment banking issues. >> certainly, some of the macro conditions have bayed client activity a little more subdued so far. >>> and the weak economy, eurozone's biggest bank post ago near 80% jump in nine months profit thanks to lower provisions. >>> a bad call for erikson hitting third quarter profits. we speak to the ceo first here on cnbc on an extended edition of this show and that happens at 12:00 cet. >>> plus, manufacturing in china if a hitting a seven-month high. the country still on track for its slowest growth now seen in 23 years. >>> he, everybody. welcome. yes, you are watching "worldwide exchange" here on cnbc. we have a lot to get through today. there's a lot to talk about. first on the agenda, we have had the eurozone business growth easing for the month of october as by the looks of things demand has slowed su

i'm louisa bojesen. >> and i'm deer ra morris. >> the u.s. goes into shutdown after congress failed to fix a stalemate over a stopgap funding bill. >> this is a very sad day for our country. the president has told the head of office and budget to issue a shutdown statement and she's done that. >> but global markets are shrugging off the shutdown with european bourses edging higher after modest gains in asia. >>> now, this amid the ongoing uncertainty in rome where sylvia berlusconi faces dissent amid withdraw from the government. >>> shinzo abe is able to raise japan's sales tax with a fresh stimulus package. >> hi, everyone. good morning. really glad that you're with us for the next two hours here on "worldwide exchange." we've got lots to talk about. of course, we're going to be heavily dominated here on the show on this u.s. partial government shutdown. we're just seeing the eurozone pmi manufacturing data coming through on the wires. 51.1. that means we've seen a little bit of a fall. this is down from around 51.4 that we saw the last tim

louisa bojesen is standing by in london. >> hi. i love it. here in europe, that's compactly what we're doing this morning, popping up a bit. yesterday on the close when we spoke, we were looking at all of our european markets in negative territory. but this morning, though, it does seem by and large that we've been baking into the pie that a partial government shutdown could indeed happen. st stoxx europe 600, up right now by 0.3%. a lot of people are saying it might be a buy opportunity, especially if we don't see anything before october the 17th. there's no reason for them to get any deal done by the 17th. and if it draws out a bit after the 17th, that, again, might be a buying opportunity for markets given that both the u.s. and european markets are stronger than where they were a couple of years ago or a couple of months ago, even. the stoxx europe 600, on the last three months, we've seen gains of approximately 10%. so you'll note during the month of september which, of course, now is behind sxus we're into october already. we've managed