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Rates across the british isles have been a record low for two years now. let's have a look at the japanese yen. that currency trading flat at 82.79. andrew? here in asia, most of the maj maj maj major indices. in shanghai, the composite was up ever so slightly, up by about .10%. it has been going pretty well, though, of late. energy companies are struggling as oil prices fell. banking stocks boosted in shanghai after reports of the chinese central bank had backtracked on its decision to impose reserve requirements on lenders in china. in sidney, the s&p was the only index to lose ground, dow...

Suit each individual nominee. but all the bags were worth the same amount. well, let's take another look at the stock markets. and here's how they look in europe where they've been trading for just under two hours. ftse down .5%, the dax down, and the zurich up .2%. over here, emily, no swag bags, but you might want to make some money in the stock market. john shofield was saying you might want to do that later this week. otherwise for this session, markets coming off the earlier losses and ending the session higher, a nice move to the upside for the hang seng, but otherwise in japan, stoc...

European markets are fairing now. here's where they stand 90 minutes into the trading day. the london ftse down .67%. paris contact down .19%. zurich smi up .08% and xetra dax down .37%. what's it like in asia? >> it's hitting markets in japan. the hong kong hang seng is japan, just to make that clear. that hurt the markets. it pulled the market down. also pulling the market down in japan the ministry of finance came out with new figures which shows japan had a $5.7 billion trade deficit in january. that's the first time there's been a deficit in 22 months, and it was fueled by higher import c...

Been flirting with a $1,400 mark this wednesday, trading just a fraction .15 cents up by almost over 1 dollar. earlier in the day libya's leader gadhafi helped to spur more safe haven buying after he said he was, quote, ready to diaz a martyr and and crush a revolt. welcome back. this is "world business today." >> let's take another quick look at the markets here in europe. the markets are generally down this morning. the ftse down .78%. the dax down .41%, the paris contact down .19% and the zurich smi up .17%. >> shanghai composite up by about 1.25s. it has been a very poor

Aside consumer complaints on the web. all that and plenty more to cover on the show. let's go straight to the european stock market and see how things are fairing across the continent and london. london ftse down. actually up 0.02%. similar situation for the contact 406789 also in paris, plenty to talk about. we have the bank of england coming out with figures a bit later on. eventually down grading. that's one of the reasons why the ftse 100 isn't showing quite too much movement. it's a big day actually. got a lot to talk. i want to kick off starting about a big story coming out of japan....