sales at porsche and skoda help drive volkswagen to a beat in q3 with minimal impact from legal provisions. >>> good morning, everybody. it's thursday. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> lots going on today. >> lots. almost the end of the week. trading higher on most european equity markets at the moment. up a half percent, a couple of the smaller markets not quite there yet. but hanging on to gains of a half percent. chinese industrial profit growth slowing overnight. data coming through from asia. we'll talk more about asia. before that, let's show you the sectors. we have the european sectors being held higher by food and beverages, healthcare pulling up the most. a lot of the focus on the banks. and on what we've heard this morning in terms of announcements. deutsche bank really surprising. posting a third quarter profit, fighting this $14 billion doj demand for misselling mortgage backed securities before the financial crisis and hiking legal provisions because of that. a lot of people thought they would post a loss and they haven't. we'll talk more deutsche bank on the show. barcla