rights the protesters also called attention to the struggles of rural workers it is the 3rd anti-government protest in the city in 2 days. stock markets around the globe are dropping amid signs of a looming recession the sharp selloff follows the release of poor economic data from germany and china and a key u.s. benchmarks also signaling more trouble ahead on wednesday the dow jones industrial average suffered its worst day of the year so far closing 3 percent down for european equities should more than 2 percent markets to look at this calmer today. let's get rid the very latest on the story we have michael hewson the chief market analyst for c.m.c. markets in london and our financial correspondent and then to buy stock in frankfurt good to see you both anetta let's start with you let's get the very latest what is the picture there in frankfurt this morning. well actually after a sort of stable start to the trading session we now see losses of up to one