sluggish, still up by comfortably more than 1%. banks look as if they re amongst the big gainers. andrew? charles, here in asia, shanghai finally beginning to turn around after falling for eight consecutive sessions. the yuan in china reaching a record high i should add against the u.s. dollar, after the u.s. treasury department conceded friday beijing is not niplating its currency. look what japan did. up by 2% in the end, really on the back of a weakening yuan. good for japanese exporters and signs industrial production is picking up now that the march earthquake and tsunami is well behind them. perhaps not well behind, but certainly behind them. signs of life finally. up by almost 1%. in a japan, the economic
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