so i suspect both sides of the debate will have something to say. >> peter woodhouse, thank you. >>> let's look at trading across europe looks flat across the board. you can see green matching quite nicely with red. the stoxx 600 down very, very, very slightly so far this morning. we look at the specific markets across the continent, we can see ftse trading up slightly, as is the xetra dax in germany the cac and the ftse mib trading slightly into negative territory. we look at the sectors to see what's going on. basic resources are up strongly, as are autos you can see that telecoms are down almost a third of a percent across the continent so that seems to be one of the major drivers of that flat market in terms of balancing things out let's talk about tax bills in the u.s. the senate passed the 500 pa page 1$1.5 trillion republican tax bill by 51 votes to 48 the result was met with a muted response by tired senators as all republicans present voted yes and all democrats voted no vice president mike pence and steve mnuchin watched over the vote which protesters disrupted on several o