 78 euro-dollar, meanwhile, 109.03, pretty much unchanged there. Some small declines in the Brent and WTI prices this morning, and your base metals also edging very slightly lower. Spot gold, meanwhile, falling $4 to 2,465 bucks on the ounce. I'm Joe Easton, that's your Bloomberg Business Flash. Joe, thank you. I'm Stephen Carroll. Time now for a look at some of the other stories making news in the UK and around the world.