treed. jacob zuma will try to convince moammar gadhafi of peace talks. his rival and another fifa executive have been temporarily a coalition commander has offered his sincerest apologies for an air strike on saturday that he says killed nine people in afghanistan. and earlier toll according to afghan and nato forces was 14. hamid karzai condemned the strike. those are the headlines. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. good afternoon from cnn hong kong. you re watching world business today. here are our top stories for this monday, may 30th. fifa boss is cleared and ready to run for re-election unopposed after two other executive members were suspended for alleged bribery. the euro remains under pressure as greece s bailout plan falters. it s a dream job for the man in the driving seat, a ferrari. we ll take you to the luxury car maker s italian hq. let s check on european stock markets. they ve been open now for about an
Gains. one theme actually that we are seeing for german stocks is the fact that the german government has now decided to close all nuclear power plants in germany by 2022. so that is weighing on german energy stocks. we re also seeing a slight selloff for gold after it hit, what, 1536 last month. really the overbearing story here is not so much euro weakness, though that is a factor as well. actually we are seeing a fair bit of dollar weakness as well. sterling there 1.6464. analysts say we could well see the pound breakthrough 1.65 and go well above that in the next few days or in the next few sessions. japanese yen, 80.81, andrew. charles, here in the asia pacific, the story still