But to be fair we spent the first week on tax, we spent the second week on a variety of subjects, it wasn't all about Europe and we did have radical ideas in our manifesto about health and education, I think the pity of it is that we didn't concentrate on those, not only during the campaign but also intheprecedingperiod.
However, the decline in like-for-like sales - which excludes the effect of store closures - was faster inthe last three months than inthepreceding six-month period.
Merck spokeswoman Gwen Fisher said Merck is confident that Medco's practice is in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and added that the company did not want to make any further comment because it is in a quiet periodprecedingthe Medco IPO.
Under the existing circuit breaker pilot, trading in a stock pauses across the U.S. equity markets for a five-minute period if the stock experiences a 10 percent change in price over thepreceding five minutes.