outlook came as rwe reported a 7% rise in first half adjusted earnings in line with estimates. they're also promising a special dividend, something investors like to hear speaking to the ceo at 11:30 that's an interview you don't want to miss. >>> james butterfield, head of research and investment strategy at etf securities. the earnings season is slowly but surely coming to an end. what do you make of it >> pretty good bottom line, growth has been fantastic. there are a couple of problems on the horizon, one is revenue if you look at the financial and energy sector, revenues have been disappointing really. and what we think is it is strength of euro you strip the companies which have more than 40% revenues outside the euro, you find that revenue growth is much more healthy. clearly this is a problem. >> at what point does the exchange rate become problematic for german exporters and 114, 115, obviously the levels that we have seen of late, 118, 119 at some point, surely those would create headaches at what point do you think they're more comfortable with the exchange rate? >>

. >> data out of rwe, become a producer coming out with an adjusted net income. the taxi below the estimate at 809 million versus 834. a lot of german investors tended to look more at the operating profit numbers and those were in line with estimates. 3.2 one billion versus an estimate for exactly the same and the most important part confirming its forecast in the upper end of the projected range. it is all about the outlook and if that is the case investors have no reason to be concerned about rwe numbers. take a look, this is a couple -- confirmation that bond traders are not as concerned about nuclear war. we had the yield going down below 2.2. now it has bounced back up. 410 years. 2.21 it will bounce back as concerns lesson. investors get out of the safe haven aspect. of safe haven assets, one has picked up shining precious metal as of late. bitcoin soaring $4000 per coin trading at 40.44. a market cap of $60 billion now. more than the food -- ford motor company's or barclays. it is important to keep an eye on. >> fascinating with the asian session and see t

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so crossing of the james, rwe talk about that and we're focus on that again and not the man whose beautiful statue in washington -- meade about to try on a new suit or go into the baths. depending on your point of view. and but this was a statue where -- and i know jim has done research on this. a lot of talk was done about the statue and what the symbolic value was and it is neglected just like meade's reputation. >> tell us -- >> do you want to talk about the monument. >> sure. soirks this monument goes up in 1927. and if you have seen this monument in washington, d.c., you it used to sit close to grant. who comes up in 1922. and it sits now a little bit down farther away from the capitol and goes up in 1927. in 1911, the pennsylvania legislature passed a meade memorial commission so this was a 16 year effort led by john fraser of philadelphia being one of them, and it comes up in 1927. meade is consistently in grant's shadow during the war and remains so in memory. in planning the memorial there say conversation about how the meade memorial could not eclipse grant's memorial and if you h

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