a financial frenzy on south african markets as traders anticipate and not going to make recovery on day new president investors believe an era of corruption has come to an end. coming up the power of. china turns to factory style farms to boost take production to squealing new heights. this is your business update on helen i am free in berlin thanks for joining me south african stocks are suddenly in demand after nine years of jacob zuma his presidency punctuated by scandals policy uncertainty and stagnant economic growth this hope of a turnaround and local currency the rand has soared to a near three year high against the us dollar equities are also searching and now parliament elected a.n.c. party leader cyril ramaphosa as president. so it's africa's economy took a beating under x. president jacob zuma it's fall into recession the country's bonds are rated junk

and its political elite is no longer trusted. due to political mismanagement its second largest city cape town is running out of water fast growth has declined steadily for more than three percent seven years ago to less than two percent in recent years one of the weakest rates of all of sub-saharan africa. the country's hope is resting on the newly elected president still ram opposers a former union leader who's become a wealthy businessman since he was appointed head of the ruling african national congress in december the country's currency has surged by ten percent against the dollar remember during the. conference. that's a good sign that investors are banking on a change in south africa's fortune. france's unemployment rate dropped below nine percent for the first time since two thousand and nine i added weight to

efforts by president to manually mark or to liberalize a rigid and even market now the rate fell to eight point nine percent in the fourth quarter of last year down from nine point six percent in the previous three months and that is the steepest drop since the two thousand and eight financial crisis the latest fall points to a major shift away from average and employment levels of ten percent or more over recent years the figures can be seen as a boost for president manuel mccall whose first move as president was to allow firms increased flexibility to hire and fire staff so the government remains cautious if you cooperate it isn't dark i believe that the results notably those regarding employment. will need two years before we can say how these policies will bear fruit. this morning new unemployment figures were announced and i want to say once again i will not comment. mainstreet is more upbeat though with the french economy now creating jobs at its fastest pace since two thousand and seven hundred

for me has just returned from australia it's encouraging and pleasant to come back to a country where unemployment is falling. today with all the networks with everything there is you search for a job online and you find hundreds of places offering things this is. however twenty percent of young people are still reported as out of work in france a low that rate is also sharply down. well here's something to get us president donald trump's back our exports to the united states jumped shot the last year at the same time the block imported only marginally more from the u.s. european statistics agency eurostar says they used trade surplus with the united states rose a whopping seven percent to one hundred twenty one billion years donald trump has repeatedly criticized europe's high trade surplus with his country and in january he even accused the u.s.

of using quote unfair practices saying you import tariffs in many sectors are higher than the u.s. counterparts. all right well are time to check in with wall street now also sharansky is standing by for us in new york sophie is that trade imbalance a real concern on the markets. well trade policy is one of trans favorite topics and it has been census companion in two thousand and sixteen because there's such a perfect fit to slam some other countries and make america a victim of unfair trade policies who has to react with terrorists and some more often come first talk and let me tell you one thing alan our wall street hates tariffs and protectionism as they are most likely being perceived as a big problem for to domestic companies and for the american economy in form of higher expenses for companies leading to potential job losses and so forth but the

markets right now are not showing that fear they have been recovering as more and more investors i get him back into the markets because falling stock prices are always a buying opportunity and you can literally hear sighs of relief here on the floor the last ten days have been quite messy but now the vix is down for fear in the markets and we're looking at strong earnings season so the markets i'm really concerned with this particular trade gap for us who are investors getting back into the markets they are buying at the moment what is the sense then move all eternity to come or was this just a one off. well i think the main concern all risk is inflation right now and the monetary policy of the fed as a reaction to rising prices and interest rates are going to write they have to the question for investors is just going to be how much and how quickly and if inflation keeps staying hot then jerome powell could speed that process up and

inflation could get a further boost from a tightening labor market increased government spending and this might force the fed to be more aggressive in raising interest rates tracking it for us from new york is also if he should months good to talk to if you thanks. well hyperinflation has hit venezuela cashes in increasingly short supply which is bad news for everyone but a few tech companies that have been able to carve out a nishan at the crisis. this is the kind of scene you can expect if you're hoping to access cash in venezuela soaring prices have led to shortages in paper money and long lines at a.t.m.'s. but the country's hyper inflation has produced some surprise winners in the business world small tech companies offering shoppers mobile payments one of them is very cold its founder says venezuela's economic

crisis has sped up what was a ready a burgeoning trend. we saw in twenty ten and twenty eleven that electronic payments were going to be a trend globally. what's happened is that it's accelerated in some countries for various reasons so perhaps our economy will become cashless before that of denmark which put more effort into a minute in the market. last year the company saw a thirty fold increase in customers those availing of the service say it's made shopping easier. and make that point that. i think that for me personally it's very practical to pay with people because it enables transactions on the way that the only thing missing is more information about how to manage the art and it's technology

a lot of that if i did that because we had no money going. out the developers in venezuela usually don't need too much starting capital salary expectations among coders are no electricity and data costs next to nothing still the boom in mobile payment is a result of the bust in nearly every other sector of the economy. well these are not good it days to be a pig in china the burgeoning middle class that wants more meat especially pork and number of pigs increasing from four hundred to seven hundred million in the space of just a decade the solution factory style farms. it's not exactly hog heaven but this is how a pig's life looks in china a small cage in a metal stall with computer controlled feeding using highly enriched soybeans by the end of the year ten thousand saudis will live here and their piglets will be

turned into twenty thousand tonnes of pork it's just one of several mass farms in southwestern china being built this year. large scale farming means profits can only go up and margins will be bigger because we have reduced costs and resources. not only the stalls are designed for efficiency so is the breeding in the laboratory next door technicians are working on imported semen to boost productivity for two years now china has spent ten billion dollars on expanding its mass production based on the american model you like to lose heart pigs have always been reared on what we call a pig farm but in fact a modern pig farm is more like a pig factory factory until now it's been the traditional farms that have predominated more than half of meat comes from small farms like this one farmer she hung way has thirty eight sow's he's already switched to soya feed to make them grow faster but that's not enough he has neither the money nor the land to dispose

of pig manure in an environmentally friendly manner and that's why the government is closing down thousands of small farms like his. both are prospecting for small farmers it's tough to say your house will carry on for another two to three or three to four years and then decide to quit myself i just don't know if. it's also a change for chinese consumers they're often skeptical about mass farming but i do take the animals wellbeing into consideration but we have no way of knowing how the pigs are raised most of china's pork now comes from mass production and that's brought stable prices but. the meat cannot show how the pig lived. that's it you're up to date with the latest wrong the wild all things news from or find us on facebook and you can follow us on twitter as well d w on the school business on that you have on the c humphrey is my handle on all the back to march

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