Join Sophia Ziaee on Monday 31st October 2011 as she brings you all the latest news from the trading floor of City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/):
Headlines include:
- It has been a ghoulish start for the markets this morning as the initial euphoria over last week's euro bailout deal is starting to slide.
- Overnight it was a weak day's trading in Asia, where Japan's Nikkei index closed 0.7% lower. The FTSE 100 has already shed 51 points, this morning trading around 5650.
- Mining stocks, the perennial measure of economic optimism, are leading the fallers. Kazakhmys, Vedanta, BHP Billiton and Xstrata are all down 3% or more.
- For some currency traders, there is also upsetting news this morning as The Japanese central bank waded into the currency markets selling yen and buying US dollars.
- This intervention - the third this year - was provoked by the yen hitting all-time highs against the dollar.
- It was good news for Barclays this morning as they announced third-quarter profit increased by 5 percent, beating estimates, even as the sovereign debt crisis hurt investment banking revenue.
- It seems the overstated market reaction to last week's European bailout package will be tested this week with scepticism already rising about the durability of the measures announced.
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