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Gratifying gains after the sell-off we had on monday amid the greece crisis. rumors that there may be some kind of fixup. we should be looking at the european numbers by the way. the last time i looked, those are the asian one which is andrew will tell you about in a moment. european markets, gains of 0.75%. andrew, take it away with those asian numbers after all. >> i guess i don't need to raept numbers, do i? the overall theme is mixed market. the top two reacting to the strong china trade numbers. the bottom two reacting to a budget in australia and mumbai is still not the flavor of the yea...

To just above junk status. the banks, according to moody's, are just already into the junk stages level. of course, euro party making significant gains in a weekend parliamentary election in finland. pauline? charles, there was plenty of movement but not much change by the close of trading in asia this monday. the nikkei ended down by more than 0.3%. the hang seng dipped the most by about 0.75%. the shanghai composite and the s&p asx 200 is up by almost 0.25%. a rise in inflation has prompted the country's central bank to raise bank's capital reserve requirements for the fourth time this y...

>> let's have another look at the stock markets. here's where they stand in europe at the moment. we are seeing weakness after what's been going on in asia and japan. the losses are actually steepening off by about 0.75% for the ftse and the paris cac current. one thing which is particularly hitting the big oil companies in london, that is the slightly lower oil price that's affecting bp and shell. they're dragging down the index. pauline? >> charles, here in the asia pacific region it's the nuclear crisis in japan that's really weighing heavily on the markets. the news that the crisis has rea...

The u.s. deficit is huge standing at $0 trillion and counting. let's see how the european markets are faring at the moment. they finished mostly lower on friday's session, following news that japan was hit by another big earthquake, this time 7.4 on the richter scale. as you can see, sharp rebounds with the likes of the cac 40 in paris leading the way, up nearly 1% but the ftse in london, up by 0.75% at the moment. in the meantime, when we take a look at the currency markets, the euro and the pound are currently gaining against the u.s. dollar following the u.s. central bank's decision to ra...

Over 0.5%, pauline. europe had a good lead-in from the markets in asia which were all higher this session led by tokyo. the nikkei 225 had risen nearly 2% by the close as investors looked past the country's latest earthquake on thursday night. that did not do any more damage to the nuclear reactors in fukushima. tokyo electric soared more than 23% after the company said it can meet power demands for at least the next two months. banking stocks led in the gains in sydney and in another bit of news from australia, the government there formally rejected an $8.8 billion bid by the singapore exch...