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Dax up by nearly 1% falling to 6.8%. thats better than expected. what i think is really the issue here in term of these markets is a set of gains for some of the big uk listed mining stocks. in particular, strata. this is due to the fact that china we had manufacturing data which was not as disappointing as we feared. it all comes pack to china. slight losses of 2/3 of a percent andrew. >> you talked about china. it had a big impact in asia. if you look at the numbers, its a healthy start to the...

the government of south sue dan gained control of a remote village that was attacked over the weekend. some 4,000 army and police reinforcements have reportedly been sent to aville raj. theyre fighting over grazing land. the u.s. republican party presidential race is about to get ready over iowa. candidates have been campaigning for weeks and tuesday night voters will take part in what is being called caucuses. they are a few hundred in formal get-togethers where people take the candid...

loyalists. gadhafis sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemens embattled president has arrived in riyadh. hes expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. t...

horn of africa. the united nations says it has received half of the $2.5 billion it needs to tackle the crisis. china says it is slowing down its bullet trains and stopping new construction because of an accident that killed last month that killed at least 40 people. the accident was blamed on design flaws on equipment. and syrian troop -- efforts are growing to end the crackdown. under scored the urgency of the situation there. those are the top stories from cnn, the world news le...

The european defense market there on the market. thats kept the dax up .6%. andrew? with the exception of japan, it wasnt a bad end of the week for asia either. well start with japan. nikkei finishing down .7% after the government announced a compensation fund for the leading utility tepco that could run to tens of billions of dollars. its sending jitters through the banking sector there. in shanghai, the composite grew by almost 1%. hong kong up by a similar amount despite china taking anothe...

Growth, js nippon. they signed an exploration deal with qatar hoping to strike crude on qatars northeast coast. its the first venture in to qatar and comes with an initial investment of $100 million. up next on "mme," beyond the gulf. jordan and morocco bid to join the council. what do they have to offer the oil-rich group. we find out. and we take a look at how the persian gulf state is reenforcing its relationship with ankara.

Creates, from which you get the new entrepreneurs, that creates the source of stability both for the economy and for politics and for society more broadly. so im very optimistic, again, about the brics because they are helping create a vibrant middle class. >> joseph stiglitz is a former chief economist at the world bank. lets see whats going on in the european markets. were about 90 minutes into todays trading session. its been a mixed picture if you look at this. the cac 40 down by 0.3%, and...

From cnn london, im charles hobson. >> welcome back to "world business today". >> lets take another look how european markets are moving now. around about 90 minutes into the last trading session of march and the last trading session of the first quarter of 2011. very much a mixed picture. the zurich smi edging down a third of a percent. scant gains for ftse and the dax up by about a seventh of a percent. hows it looking over there, pauli pauline? >> pretty good, charles, except for the composit...

Falls on wednesday. for example, here we are, the ft-se up by between .5%. it was off by .7% on wednesday. so it is coming from a very low level. paris cac up by nearly 1%. smi up by .5% and the dax up by nearly 1%. now u.s. stock markets accelerated their selloff on wednesday with all three major indices closing at the lowest levels this year. so all the gains of 2011 are gone in terms of the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500. dow off by 2%. nasdaq and s&p 500 not far behind. u.s. markets do look for a...

Evening stronger gains at the moment. we have the dax up by about 0.6%. markets in zurich enjoying a three-quarter percentage gain. ftse 100 holding steady, despite the chamber of commerce came out and cut its gdp forecast for the united king come from 1.4% to 1.9% earlier today. that market trading higher by about 0.33%. andrew? it was a bit more optimistic here, i guess, nina. certainly the easing price of oil helping some investors, all the major indices finishing in positive territory. hon...