George Taylor of City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/) takes you through the day's developments across key markets, including:
- Losses continue into early trading.
- Societe Generale down 7.4% in Paris.
- Standard Chartered up 1.1% after announcing first-half results.
- European major indexes are all showing losses of over 1%.
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