let's look at the levels for this ursday. the dollar/yen, 78.39 to 41. euro/yen, 95.89 to 90. the euro trading in a narrow range ahead of the meeting of the central bank today. >> july auto sales came out in the united states. how did the japanese out firms do there and what is on the earnings front today? >> the numbers come out in the first week every month. and the numbers are looking good. we did see some of the three major auto manufacturers showi gains. toyota up 26% from last year. handa up 45% and nissan up 16%. automakers moving to regain the market share from the march 11th disaster last year. sales at general motors fell by 6.4% and ford, 3.8%. later today we will have numbers from sony and sharp. you mentioned they were forced to make job cuts. that will be interesting. renaissance electronics. t also a lot of eyes on the european central bank meeting and see if they take measures to boost growth in europe. >> both the nikkei and the topix in positive territories. look at how other markets in the asia patchy f asia pacific are opening. >>> survivors of the atomic b

it does look like it will continue to occur through your ursday and going into friday. in addition, about 120 millimeters up to 200 millimeters could be felt in and across this entire area, on top of the nearly 1 meter of rainfall this week, absolutely staggering and record breaking rain has put a deluge on most of the downtown manila and does look like a lot of suburban cities out across the metropolitan areas around manila have been impacted by the storm. not to mention just that but high waves from the southwesterly flow, up to 5 meters high could be impacting the cost lines. farther to the north, we're watching this continuing to blow onshore. still go to see heavy rainfall with this storm. about 300 millimeters has fallen within the past 24 hours. an additional 200 to 250 millimeters could fall as the storm lingers across this entire area. going through the next 48 hours, just see this heavy rain. good news, there is an upper level trough that's going to work through the area. that will be working its way towards the east and with it, that storm should start to mov

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