"becky. >> it is been a fairly quiet day of trades. there has been a bit of wait and see ahead of some of the act we have got later on, particularly in the states, the bernanke testimony, for instance. we are seeing declines for about 0.2% for the ftse 100, the dax, the cac and the smi slipping by a fraction less than 0.5% in each instance, really. 4:19am ??" . . . .