After a wave of consolidation we break down the results from two of the key players. Mark will the drama pay . Itv reports. We see if the numbers are as big a hit with investors as Downton Abbey is with global viewers. Welcome to countdown, i am mark barton. Anna i am an edwards. On a edwards anna edwards. Stay with us for the bloomberg exclusive with megaupload founder. Mark the markets moving in asia and stocks under pressure as the global selloff continues. Weve seen 400 billion over the past three weeks. Lets start off with the stock market. Lets start off with the stock market. Were basically seeing a decline across the regional benchmark. In japan we are down 1 and the yen is a little bit stronger down 7 10 of 1 . One of the stories right now is asia with a very weak retail sales number in the u. S. To some extent, investors started to book those profits in japan. Australia was down because of the banks and the big mining stocks. That is up. 5 . That market hasnt really done anyt
City of london takes a day off. The 30 day average. A huge chunk out of volume. Yesterday, you missed quite a rally in italian bonds. Below three percent heading towards record lows on the italian bond yields. European elections took the headlines over the weekend. The big one on the weekend was matteo renzi who got a huge stamp of approval. It sent italian assets higher. At 1. 3654. Llar is 2 30 u. K. Time. Ipos continued to come thick and fast. Lloyds lands to sell their part next the positive stake month. Euro shares will also be on sale sometime next month. Will the deals be snapped up . Here is Caroline Hyde our European Business correspondent. Offer for us . 25 of all the shares that are currently held by lloyds. 1. 5 billionmate of pounds value of tsp, shares are going to go on sale as soon as next month. Lloyds offloads its unit that has four. 5 million customers, 631 branches across the u. K. , making it englands seventh against lender. They had to get rid of this unit. This i