Pick of the early market news

Updated

Stock markets across the globe caught the jitters - more Greek anxiety - on Friday with the German Dax falling -1.41% and French Cac 40 falling -1.51%. In the UK, the FTSE 100 gave up 0.73%.

Man Group (down -5.24%) and Essar Energy (down -4.66%) were the big board's biggest fallers. New numbers from Japan aren't good: GDP shrunk significantly in the last quarter of 2011.

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