renault is the latest company to come out and talk about the euro. its third quarter profits fell despite gains in pricing and value. they suffered from the depreciation of several emerging market currencies against the euro. and renault stock down today. this came out after the close, off today around 3%. axa off 1.6% today blaming the strong euro and sees a weakness for earning hes growth. basf says demand recovery helped it offset the impact of a strong euro. this is the world's biggest chemical company by assets managing to beat forecasts in the previous quarter. we saw previous companies at the bottom of the dow jones stoxx 600. electrolux said it incurred a negative currency impact. markets outlined, as well, a cost cutting program. and a glovemaker, st. cobain, up 2.7%. it claims a 1.4% fall in sales, would have been a positive figure were it not for the euro's strength. finally, novozynes down 2.9%. just missing expectations. again, the company also narrowed its full year guidance to reflect on favorable exchange rates. well, those are the co

the 1984 renault and he niece a little two-room suite and putting his money where his mouth is. >> particularlys and sort of saying let's refocus on other areas of our mission which i think a lot of american catholics saying that for quite sometime, particularly in the context of the budget talks that we have been having, do you think that's going to help bring americans, american catholics back to the church? >> yes. and it already is and it's not anecdotal. i was at a parish out on long island and a man came up to me afterwards and i said, repeat that so i can quote this to people. 40 years i've been away from the church, father, and i'm back because of francis. number of people told me that. people are attracted by his charisma and simple presentation of the gospel. >> i wanted to show poll numbers actually on gay marriage and abortion because it seems this pope is actually seems to be more tolerant than many in this country. essentially, for gay marriage support, 60%, 31% oppose. for abortion, 52% say should be legal in all or most cases. 42% should be illegal in all or most cases and the i

renault is out in the next couple of days. and you're starting to see, you know, early 2012 second half earnings terrible. so even on relatively flat earnings, flat revenues, you can get an earnings rebound there. you still see cash bonus, but by .large, you already know the monthly earnings on the autos. the turn around now is quite reliable in my view. for food and beverages, the organic growth rates flowed in hedge one. kind of a mixed bag from what you're expecting from heineken. they're very, very expensive. so that's more of a style move. it's probably not really worth the money you're paying for that. >> and we were just mentioning wpp's numbers. the media upgrade that you've made or the upgrade to the media sector, does this hinge very much on global ads than what happens over the next 24 months or so with global assets? >> it's probably about 2 1/2 times details with global gdp rates. you're seeing global gdp accelerate to nearly 4% at the start of next year. at the same time, as well, especially the advertising agenc

renault came out down 2.35% today. revenue had suffered from the depreciation of several emerging market currencies against the euro. axa, the insurer, down 2% today. blaming the strong euro and seasonal weakness in life insurance for a slowdown in its earnings growth today. and saint gobain, the glassmaker, stock is up 4.5%, but it stalked about the stifling currently impact and it said a 1.4% fall in sales would have been a positive figure were it not for the strength of the euro. though investors have looked past that. the question is are they just blaming the euro for things that they could be doing better or not? but they are all talking about it. and this level up near 1.38 that we've been, it's record high for the two years is higher than the level of 1.37 when the ecb were talking about it back in february. and they haven't talk about it at all at these sort of levels. we'll keep our eyes on that. for now, back to you. >> all right, ross, thank you. they don't like it. i don't like it. we don't -- why can't we