well here are some polls cathedral in london from where the occupy the london stock exchange me was fairly recently effected the movement appears from where i'm standing to be on its last legs but luckily jamie can see for you from occupy london is here to convince me otherwise jamie thanks for talking to us today no you said yourself a nice to feel it say that this place is almost haunted the tents used to be right that just where you are standing is the occupy movement dad's absolutely no it's obviously one of the things of the comp moving is that we're allowed to put a lot more energy into the movement itself was actually becoming very difficult to sustain the kind as it becomes very large if you bear in mind that five months ago none of the count would last this low still developing our ideas on how to move forward how to use outreach to the movement to generate solidarity and otherwise really of reaching into the public consciousness to get across a very simple. social environmental and economic justice so we've only just begun in that sense for that it's no coincidence that we are he

privatization program is staring interest well be on the country's borders and it's coming from the london stock exchange is eager to get some of the business and we spoke to the head of the bulls the annual to before him in london he told us russian companies will hire to try to have to global investors. i do expect a number of companies to come here this is a confirmation of the plans already announced over a year ago this is something that we can see then which will be done in partnership with russian capital markets as well as the russian exchange interest is very high for a very simple reason europe still today has a lot of capital certainly in the private sector three trillion dollars of equity assets managed in london alone but europe doesn't have much growth so russia offers that growth we have the capital the expertise and the ability to make not only these companies richer in terms of capital but to enhance their international brand . great thanks. this is. a little. with the headlines we've got a special interview. in the. science technology innovation called the least of metal around russia w

that for the footsie on the dax finished up there so around ten a half percent for both the london stock exchangeand germany right now we know that the e.u. leaders on the sing tonight the hobbit it enough now was going to be discussed well topics on the agenda are going to be growth jobs the euro bonds. and earlier today i spoke to my favorite shopping cart he's from here iceland and he was saying that a great exit is such a bad day. i. fully support the idea that the grags its so-called gregg's is the exit of greece from the euro will be very positive for the markets it removes the finks which markets fears most uncertainty and was greece so as long as the european community able to prove that it has sold it for war i think that the markets production recover especially food coincide was a collective action on the taken by european central bank by us all the governments in the world to actually address deficiencies in the economist so long as this concerns us i think you know that we are roughly the board to move the market. and if we look at the common currency right there one twenty five seve

london. the topix opening just a touch lower ismorning. >> thanks a lot for that from the tokyo stock exchange. >>> the ousted president of olympus says he has reached a settlement with the company over his dismissal. michael woodford told reporters in london on tuesday about the agreement with the japanese optical equipment maker. >> it is a positive thing in the interest of both parties. it has to be ratified by the main board of the olympus corporation on the board meeting on friday, the 8th of june. >> no details of the settlement are available, but sources say olympus will pay 10 million pounds or more than $1015 million to the former president. the amount takes into account the compensation he would have received had he served as president until the end of his contract. woodford filed a lawsuit against olympus in london. he claimed for damages aring that he was unfairly dismissed last october after blowing the whistle on the company's accounting irregularities. olympus acknowledges that it is in the final phase of negotiion for a settlement. >>> that's the latest from me this hour. i'll

troubled greece portugal as well as spain's stock markets of all this year's rises in london frankfurt madrid is down eighteen percent since january the exchange of the euro is just one up against the dollar after an awful run where it hit near three month lows the ruble shared on the made currencies today. edging up to one hundred dollars of the poor morning but brant has gone back under one hundred thirteen and more news and interviews on the web site and more from you a little later during the day thanks a lot indeed daniel bushell there in the business news room now coming up we're going to stay with money matters financial and economic matters the e.u. economy after the latest elections capital account would be discussing that after the headlines. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. in the news a secret lover of taurine to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn ab

stock exchange, i'm alexis christoforous. >>> baltimore swimming star michael phelps says he's ready for the summer olympic games in london. in an interview with anderson cooper on "60 minutes ," phelps admits to losing his focus. but now he says he's back in shape. >> i kind of felt like my old self again. and so many times, like i used to. i'm swimming races like i used to. so everything is kind of coming back to me, what it was, i guess, before. i guess i probably do get kind of like choked up, like just thinking about all of the memories and thinking of like exactly when i touch the wall, what was going on in my head. >> and you can see the full interview on 60 minutes here on wjz 13 at 7:00. >>> coming up on wjz's eyewitness news at 4:00. models banned. the reason an international magazine is giving forth decisions. >>> good news about gas prices. what experts are say being numbers you're seeing at the pump. are they here to stay? >>> and a mostly cloudy day. bob will be back with the updated forecast. wjz is always on. for the top stories on wjz.com. for instant updates and first warping -- warning weather all the ti

stock exchange and check in with us in about ten seconds. also today, jamie and the whale and ina and the new guy now in charge of that unit over there in london that lost $2 billion. president obama's spokesman weighing in on the case. we've got it all covered. let's start first with sue at the corner of wall and broad. sue. >> and you said it, ty, it is a down day. there were earlier on an awful lot of losers on the big board with about 25 to 30 dow components lower. dmodties getting roughed up as well. we'll get to that in a minute. we're going to talk stocks with bob pisani. i'm impressed by the fact the market has managed to come back so considerably. we were down 1 0 points earlier this morning. >> yeah. almost 160. we've gained back 60% of that. and it happened even before the markets closed in europe. we had a nice spike up when that happened. industrials have rallied. some tech stocks have rallied. there you see, i think the bottom line, sue, there's not a lot of places to put your money in the world. money is coming into the united states. the dollar is up 11 days in a row. we haven't seen that in three and a half years. look at that