commerzbank shares gained by more than 4% due to the fact it wants to get rid of the state aid money and wants to repayt by issuing new shares. investors say that they are quite sure that this will work out pretty fine and will help to give the commerzbank management more freedom. >> let's have a look at somef the market figures starting with the blue chips in frankfurt. the dax index closing half a percent higher at 7215. at 2971.stoxx 50 index, .07% in nework,heow nes dustals closing at 12,426. and the euro jump stopping a 14-month high against the dollar today. car sales continue to boom in china. german luxury carmakers saw sales soar in the first quarter. audi sold 64,000 in china, up almost a quarter from a year earlier. b.m.w. sales jumped 70%. and mercedes sales rocketed 80% in the first quarter. german brands are especially popular among more affluent chinese buyers. back to megan. >> thanks. we turn our attention to italy where the trial of italian prime minister better better better on -- silvio berlusconi on sex charges opened. berlusconi is accused of paying a teenaged n

percent after gold and silver futures touched new highs and banks are in the spotlight as well commerzbank up one point eight percent on the dax after the german investment bank said it will repay around fourteen point three billion euros of state aid by june. and here and russian market for trading higher as well we are here says bounce back from yesterday's losses up two point four percent otherwise it's trading at this hour blue chips are trading mixed on both the indices let's look at some individual movers noise has slipped into the red despite its announcement of another one point two billion dollars buyback also among the losers as well snapped down more than five percent ahead of the end of tax holidays for its oil rich bank orfield as siberia but probably metal is on the rise helped by rising gold prices shares are up one hundred percent. so we have time for this hour join me at twenty past the hour for more here not. for the full six we've got it from. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our t.v. . news.

gaining four point seven percent after trading update banks are in the spotlight as wow on the dax commerzbank up one point eight percent after the bank that it will repay around fourteen point three billion euros of state aid by june and here in russia markets are trading higher as well the odds he has his bounce back from yesterday's losses up to almost one percent this hour why the market is gaining over point six percent most of the blue chips are trading in the black this hour in the seas let's look at some individual movers energy majors are in the black on strong oil prices look oil is up more than two percent. holy metal it is the top gaining on him isaac's help by rising gold price and shares are up around four percent also telecom is gaining more than three percent following its merger with regional communication companies. precious metals have skyrocketed on a slide in the dollar and ongoing investors and not for safe haven assets gold is now at almost one thousand four hundred fifty nine dollars an ounce after it hit a second record in a row silvered bounced to a thirty one year hi