the copper miner and woolsey is a plumbing company. that s not enough to counter the general market trend. the cac 40 down by .4% despite gains for the french banks. and the dax still down by .6% despite the fact we ve got shares in some of the car makers up like bmw up by 1.5%. let s turn our attention towards the currency markets. the euro and the pound gaining against the u.s. dollar. and as you can see, the yen is losing ground against that currency. when it comes to the euro, $1.4133, the japanese yen, though, currently trading at 81.68, pauline. well, nina, the markets here in the asia-pac region finished mostly lower this session. the nikkei in tokyo was down for the second straight day on more
energetic, and it looks like they could go down and mine some copper. and i do wonder, you know, the last one who came out, osmon araya, he has only been a temporary worker for the last few months, and so he said he s never going down again. he never really liked being down there, but history would tell us that most of them will return to mining, right? yeah. they will. it does get in your blood, it s what you do. i mean, for a while, of course, they re going to get dragged away from that. and a lot of people will tell them, oh don t go back down there. it s a terrible place, and look at what happened to you the last time. but i would say at least 75% of them will probably end up mining again. i mean, in the first place, to be a miner of any type, hard rock miner, copper miner, coal miner, it takes a great deal of training and specialized training at that. operate all of that heavy equipment, be around all of that