. >> narrator: doug vaughan will be 77 years old when he is >> narrator: doug vaughan will be 77 years old when he is released. point. this monday is pointing in the right direction. most of the indices in the green. we are more or less taking our cue from overnight markets we will get to that in a moment. the ftse 100 is up .80% firmer we have minor basic resources trading at the bottom. cac 40 in france is up slightly. in the cac 40 and dax is languishing a bit in trading overall, you see the bias is toward the positive. let's talk about what happened in the asia markets. we had key data come out the composite is trading around flat the hang seng is down .60% we had weaker sales data that has come through one of the reasons that commodities is struggling. the nikkei in japan is up 1.1% the nikkei now is at the highest level it has been since the beginning of the year. in response to the china data, the central bank cut the key rate for the second time this year in a bid to shore up credit de demand they lowered the lending to 400 billion loans to financial institutions to lending ins