it s wednesday, the 28th of april. welcome to worldwide exchange. in the headlines today, here in asia, many market in japan and indonesia closing with a one-two punch downgrading greece and portugal. in europe, shares hit a five-week low. in the i d, the flare-up of financial turmoil in greece and in portugal may reinforce the fed s reluctant to signal rate raises anytime soon. health low. a warm welcome to worldwide exchange. i m chloe cho here in asia w ang although with nicole lapin and ross westgate. a quick snap of the asian market action, a weak session today. as you can see, a lot of these markets losing their key support levels. the nikkei closing below the 11,000 handle, still in its final stretches of trade, falling below the 2,100 level, as well. the shanghai composite is relatively low today. it is standing at the lowest point for this year. the bombay sensex off 0.9 and the aussie market, this risk off trade taking a lot of money off the commodities m
hello and welcome to cnbc s worldwide exchange. global equities a little firmer today. the ftse cnbc global 300 just up 27 points. as you can see, we had a positive close to u.s. markets yesterday. and right now, we re up 0.5% for the ftse 100. back over 5,000. 0.7% for the xetra dax. the cac 40 and smi firmer, as well. also on the currency markets, well, a volatile day already. dollar index has been down at 76 points, it trimmed its losses after we set off the saudi central bank came out and sort of trashed this report that they were looking at possibly looking at a new basket of reserve to price oil in. nevertheless, dollar/yen off its lows, back to 89.23. euro/dollar, 1.47 21. sterling against the dollar is just over 1.6039. the aussie/dollar doing fairly well this morning, as well, on the back of that rba bank announcement. just getting halifax house prices out, as well. we ve had some data out on the new car registrations, as well, in the uk. the halifax house price