today or the mood of hugo chavez and whether or not he'll allow that oil to come to the united states versus china. so there's no doubt here that there is a level of energy security here. there's also no doubt that as this oil comes through the pipeline to the variety of refineries that they will as in every barrel that's provided to a refinery, only a portion of that barrel can be made into fuel that we use daily in our vehicles. the other parts of that like diesel, excess diesel is exported to europe. we have already heard from several of my colleagues that there's other by-products as well. so this is -- the markey amendment, i would submit is one of those type of killer amendments that if this would become law it basically means that you can't use this oil from canada which is really the basis of the environmental argument here, to just not use heavy crude or any fossil fuel. that's what this amendment is all about. i would encourage us to put this in perspective as mr. doyle has said. it will provide job, it will provide energy security for us. so let's go for that. i yield. >> thank you for

from venezuela for the mood of hugo chavez and whether he will allow that to come to the united states versus chinahere is no doubt here that there is a level of energy security here. there's also no doubt that as this oil comes to the pipeline through the variety of refineries that they will pass and every barrel provided to refineries, only a portion of that era can be made in two fuel that we use daily in our vehicles. the other parts of that leg access dsl is exported to europe. we have heard a heard from several colleagues that there's other byproducts as well. so this is the markey amendment. i would submit is one of those types of killer amendment that if this becomes law it basically means you can't use this oil from canada, which is really the basis that the environmental argument to not use heavy crude for any fossil fuel. that is what this amendment is really about. i encourage you to put this in perspective as mr. doyle has said. it will create jobs and provide energy, a level of energy security for his, so that go for that. i yield to mr. whitfield. >> thank you for yielding. just a co

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versus private, two different readings of the growth pmi released. china stock surges as worries over a hard landing dissipate. >>> a very good morning to you. if you've just woken up in the united statesr we have slim gains on the board here in europe, advancers outpace decliners on the dow jones stoxx 600. after a mixed session at the close yesterday we were seeing the ftse up. this follows a better than expected services pmi number earlier on this morning. we came in at 56. expectations for 53.4. if that continues the uk will avoid a recession for the fourth quarter. it may also put the bank of england on whether it has an extension to qe next week into further doubt. xetra dax up a third of a percent. the ftse mib up about a third as well. what's key here is we've seen yields on italian debt fall down to nearly 5.5% during the session today but, of course, the employment report, jackie, what are the futures like at the moment? >> yeah, when we're looking at the futures, some of your slip gains are definitely adding to the momentum here and it will be a higher open, ross, if the markets were to open now. the dow would be higher by 34 1/2. the s&p 500 higher by nearly four points aft

today or the mood of hugo chavez and whether he's going to allow that oil to come to the united states versus china. so there's no doubt here that there is a level of energy security here. there's also no doubt that as this oil comes through the pipeline to the variety of refineries that they will as in every barrel that's provided to a refinery, only a portion of that barrel can be made into fuel that we use daily in our vehicles. the other part of that, like diesel, excess diesel, is exported to europe. we've already heard from several of my colleagues that there's other byproducts as well. so this is -- the markey amendment, i would submit, is one of those type of killer amendments that if this would become law, it basically means that you can't use this oil from canada, which is really the basis of the environmental argument here is to just not use heavy crude or any fossil fuel. and that's what this amendment is really about. so i would encourage us to put this in perspective as mr. doyle has said. it will create jobs. it will provide energy, a level of energy security for us. so let's go for