exchange is now back opened and as you can see it's up a fraction. interesting though that they dropped yesterday by 2.5% at one stage but it came back and closed down by about 1.5% on the back of the news coming out about that explosion. so up again today, so investors certainly showing some resilience there in the moscow investment story. moving on to the u.s. now, stocks there making solid gains for the start of the trading week. more strong profit reports helping encouraging investors there. the oil filled service company, halliburton, turned up a strong result last quarter and this is what the numberses looked like. the dow up almost 1% closing in on the 12,000-point mark. as you see, 11980. the nasdaq up by more than 1%. the s&p. broadest measure up by a little more than a half of 1%. looking forward to the open, futures mostly lower and this is