Investors were on edge on Monday because of the uncertainty over the U. S. Federal Reserve’s Course of action. Turkish shares suffered because of negative impacts of three days of anti-governmental protests.

Chris Beauchamp, market analyst at IG, said that the Fed can sit and wait for more economic data to arrive and then make a decision.

On Monday the U. S. stock-index futures slipped on Wall Street and are likely to have negative impact on the budget. European shares went down during first trade in the morning and fell lower from their five year highs last week.

The European shares are getting lower from its four and a half year high due to China's weak economic data and Italy's weak factory output and increasing consumer demands.

China has come out with GDP slowdown. Fourth quarter GDP has been released which showed that China has just missed the expected rough GDP for this quarter. Everything seems fine for China right now.

Monday market sees Tokyo stocks making modest gains, with U. S. technology shares rising and the surging euro fueling buying capabilities of exporters like TDK, Honda Motor, and Canon etc. Undoubtedly, with the end of trading on the day, the late profit-taking has pushed many well off their intraday highs.

Though the Greek parliament has announced the approval of an austerity package, which are must to get international aid and to prevent other measures, the euro still dropped. It was found that the decline marked the two-month low, and reason for the same could not be understood.

On Thursday, the Asian markets closed on a mixed note, while a few struggled and still couldn't make, others managed to cope up due to additional help. Sentiment closed at a positive note after being aided as there was a recovery in the activities concerning the Chinese manufacturing. Panasonic couldn't make it and fell in Tokyo after cuts in its earnings view.

It is for the first time since two decades that the Chinese currency renminbi has jumped to its highest levels against the dollar thereby marking a small burst of appreciation, which has too caught many investors flat-footed.

In the wake of concerns about anti-Japanese protests as well as issues in regard to Beijing's behavior about its policies, it was found that Chinese and Japanese stocks saw a downfall. Except China and Japan, it was found that rest of the Asian stocks did a pretty well good job.

Due to an embarrassing computer glitch, BATS Global Markets had to withdraw their public offerings. Now the CEO of the company has issued a public apology for the same. In a mass email addressed to customers and members of the trading community, Joe Ratterman said that BATS had experienced a serious technical failure on Friday morning, which is why the incidence occurred.