SHOTLIST Tokyo, Japan 1. Tilt down from screen to trading floor at Tokyo Stock Exchange 2. Top shot of traders 3. Wide of trading board 4. Close of share prices on digital strip 5. Wide of stock exchange Hong Kong 6. Pan of Hang Seng trading floor 7. Close of trading board 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Castor Pang, Strategist of Sun Hung Kai Financial: "It seems that the bailing of the AIG by the US government will become a tranquiliser for the global markets. In the short term, I guess that there will be rebounds for most of the indexes; but in the long term, it is still a question whether the rescue plan can save all the financial sector within the US market." 9. Dealers London, UK 10. Wide of skyscrapers in Canary Wharf, district housing financial companies 11. Close of skyscraper 12. Pan from sign to exterior of BGC Voice and Electronic brokerage office 13. Various of brokers inside BGC offices 14. SOUNDBITE (English) David Buik, BGC Partners: "Relief this morning. The FTSE will open up about 70 points up. But I think we need to be cognizant to the fact that the markets are going to remain extremely volatile. We're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. I think the bear (market) squeeze rally will take place once all the bears have been shaken up, particularly in the banking stocks where they have been heavy sellers with. You might find other people start to sell into it, so we might not end the day with such ebullience. But at least it feels significantly better than it did 48 hours ago." 15. Various of brokers on phones, by computers Frankfurt, Germany 16. Wide of Frankfurt Stock Exchange trading floor 17. Various of traders 18. Trading board 19. SOUNDBITE (German) Oliver Roth, Director of Equities Trading, Close Brothers Seydler AG: "I regard it as a positive thing. I think that the market, during the course of the day, will see more of how positive it is. It was our main concern in the last few days whether AIG would be bailed out, and it was the right decision by the Federal Reserve Bank to assist AIG through the credit of 85 billion US dollars. To me it is clear that there was no other alternative." 20. Traders Paris, France 21. Pan of Richelieu Finance trading room 22. Various of computer screen showing the points on the CAC-40 23. Traders on phones 24. SOUNDBITE (French) Nathalie Pelras, Head of Equity Management, Richelieu Finances: "The French market, like other markets at the opening (of trading), has reacted well because it was a rescue, and we imagined what a cataclysm it would have been if nothing had been done for AIG. So the first opening was up 1.5 and little by little it went down, we even passed into the red because there was another rumour which became apparent. There are problems with HBOS in London which lost nearly 50 percent, and an hour later a potential bid from Lloyds on it which meant it went back up. So we have a very volatile market. At the moment we are flat on the French market, but we can go back into the red or we can go into green. We are still on shaky ground. This input of money is good news, but it's good news that masks a cataclysm." 25. Pan of traders at desk working 26. Graphics on computer screen STORYLINE Asian stocks turned in a mixed performance on Wednesday, giving up early gains as a US plan to rescue troubled insurer AIG failed to persuade many investors that recent financial turmoil would soon ease. Japan's Nikkei 225 average added 1.2 percent to 11,749.79, after sinking nearly 5 percent the day before to its lowest finish in more than three years. South Korea's Kospi climbed 2.7 percent and Taiwan's benchmark rose 0.8 percent. China's Shanghai benchmark fell 2.9 percent, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.6 percent. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/32d4472b29695fa66805ccd63ed66978 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork