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When london was shut, but a little bit of selling on the paris cac, perhaps on the back of the swiss strength we're seeing. one theme is that we are seeing hoss for carmakers with vol being wagon and daimler among the losers. we're seeing a little bit of a recovery in asian currency trading for the dollar, but not very much. certainly we don't have the full numbers there, but 1.66, 1.48, so continuing strength this for the euro against the dollar. but currency traders are really saying that actually the theme of the moment is dollar weakness and we'll get back to that later on. so 81.03 meanwh...

Little bit further than the other major markets. have a look at the global currencies against the u.s. dollar, obviously the bigger picture here is one of continued dollar weakness. we have seen the euro all the way up above 1.46, well above 1.46, coming back down below 1.46, on remarks by the acv president jean-claude trihet saying the world is interested in the dollar going strong. the japanese yen 81.74. andrew? charles, in the asia-pacific region australia was the only major exception in a day of losses here. the hang seng here in hong kong fell early on tuesday, largely on resources and...

For cnn london, i'm charles hudson. >> i'm andrew stevens at cnn hong kong. welcome back, you're watching "world business today." >> well, let's see how the european stock markets are faring. now 93 minutes roughly into the trading day. unrest in the middle east and north africa continues to weigh on investor sentiment with the ftse and the paris off 0.6%. and 1.2% for the xetra dax, andrew. >> we've been seeing a bit of dollar weakness, too, recently, that's hurting the exporters in japan, charles. the nikkei down 1%. that's the third straight day of fall for the nikkei, and the nasdaq is dow...

Gains. one theme actually that we are seeing for german stocks is the fact that the german government has now decided to close all nuclear power plants in germany by 2022. so that is weighing on german energy stocks. we're also seeing a slight selloff for gold after it hit, what, 1536 last month. really the overbearing story here is not so much euro weakness, though that is a factor as well. actually we are seeing a fair bit of dollar weakness as well. sterling there 1.6464. analysts say we could well see the pound breakthrough 1.65 and go well above that in the next few days or in the next fe...