482 Billion News Today

today is actually a holiday fess vas. >> the tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances. i have got a lot of problems with you people. now, you are going to hear about it. you, krueger. my son tells me your company stinks. >> oh, god. >> and now as festivus rolls on. until you pin me, george, festivus is not over. >> oh, please. somebody stop this. >> lets rumble. >> katie: this years festivus like all the others with the airing of grievances. we have a lot of problems ...

$482 billion on wasteful projects like dropping $3 million to inject hamsters with steroids and watching them fight. another 2 million injecting puppies with cocaine not very nice. another cool million turned mice into alcoholics. but, at least the mice werent racist because the government spent half a million dollars teaching them about racial aggression. but, to make you feel a little better. we did spend $210 million on education. not in crumbling school systems like st. louis or philadelphia...

Including the dax, which started the day on a downbeat note currently adding to yesterdays gains. as you can see, the ftse 100 up by 0.3%. stronger gains so the cac 40 in paris, also the smi in zurich up by 0.25% as we speak. pauline? >> hopefully theyll steady their feet. japanese markets re-opened after a long holiday weekend. the mood was quite positive as you can see there. the nikkei had risen by more than %, about 4.3% by the close on this tuesday session. financial stocks were some of the...

And the bank of japan pumped an additional $25 billion into the financial system earlier on tuesday to ease any more investor worries. this brings the central banks total aid since the earthquake to $482 billion. and the markets around the rest of the region piggy backed on that positive sentiment. as you can see there, all of them posting gains. the hang seng posting gains by about 0.75%. the shanghai composite up by a third and the benchmark basically flat, up just a little bit. nina? >> there...