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Traders have advised that the current nuclear crisis in Japan following the recent earthquake is still a factor that investors should be keeping an eye on - as today operators of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are set to use military helicopters to cool the overheating reactors, Reuters reports.
Despite the ongoing situation in the Far East, the UK's FTSE 100 index opened at two to eight points or 0.1 per cent this morning after closing down 97.05 points or 1.7 per cent yesterday.
The blue chip list ended down for the sixth day in a row, with its total fall over that period amounting to 6.3 per cent.
Yesterday, the news agency reported that the FTSE 100 rose by two to five points when the market opened, however stock exchange players were said to be acting cautiously after the disasters in Japan.
Posted by Greg Secker
