the euro zone over in europe stocks status monday's session a lower the for the sand the downslope hosmer sands and quarter percent respectively and here and russia equities trade in sympathy with gold. markets finishing the day with one percent losses for both the my sex and the r.t.s. and now checking out the currency markets the ruble performed as you can see the spanish today mix against the main currencies meanwhile the euro continued to push higher for versus most of its rivals including of course the euro and the dollar. and a record two hundred forty seven million bargain crazed shoppers hit the u.s. stores on the so-called black friday and over the past weekend they spent fifty nine billion dollars that's thirteen percent more than a last three or according to the national retail federation in addition to the much anticipated crowd madness which of course included the usual screaming host saying and passing out brick and mortar retailers saw a one point eight percent sales decline compared to last year's block friday instead of hitting the stores many shoppers took advantage of o