twitter is your opinion @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness as well. in theeek for interest chinese economy. the pboc laying out its latest policies. , it'sstart with the data the weekend, and were getting quite a lot. >> there is. it comes after a lull. the chinese new year moves they tried to put these readings together. we have not seen a good reliable gauge across the economy for some time, so this will make it all the more important. it will not be pretty on the factory front, expecting a decline to 5.6% growth for those two months, that we can start to a year since 2009. on the investment front, anticipating a decline to 9.3%. that is the weakest pace registered since 2000, so a huge slowdown there. the one bright spot is retail, expecting an 11% gain year on year. the pboc gone awol for quite a while, now dominating tv sets. pboc governor, what is the expected to say? >> he will speak at 10:00 a.m. with his deputies. we anticipate he would hold the party line on the currency. he and other officials and deputies have been saying that there is no

tweet this your thoughts at @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness.trolled by one of china's richest men, and other stories making headlines. china's: the impact of slowdown is weighing. tumbled 50% in less than a year, falling below its ipo price, prompting its parent to consider taking the unit private at a cost of $4 billion. wanda has fallen this year. forecastt group has overshadowingmp, over shuttin gains from its other operations. the world's largest money manager is looking at cutting 400 jobs at black rock, 3% of workers. a spokesman declined to comment. job cuts have not been finalized. the firm is looking to focus resources on strategic priorities. thate told bloomberg expect to in the the year with a higher head count as they add staff. larry fink had warned of cuts to two volatility in the markets. cuta's big lenders have dividend pavements in the face of rising bad loans. bank of china president says it is a sign of the new normal as his bank reported weakest profit growth in a decade. the percentage of profits paid out as dividends by t

do tweet us your thoughts @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness. some other stories we are watching today. ,ne is a pharmaceutical company and some other stories. valeant pharmaceuticals, a death warning and a record stock plunge. disappointing financial news quickly snowballed into the worst day in the company's history. bonds plunge tuesday by the most ever since barclays lowered their outlook, and speculation mounted that the credit rating would be lowered into junk. valeant from a surgical's said they would pay down $1.7 billion in debt -- valeant pharmaceuticals said they would pay down $1.7 billion in debt. it fell the most ever to $33.51. as $257.it was as high analysts say there are too many things happening at valeant, including a typo that shows a lack of control. apple has taken a final swing at the u.s. justice department ahead of their first hearing over unlocking an iphone. the company reiterated its argument that congress should decide what law enforcement can do to compel it and others to cooperate and criminal investigations. that

tweet us your opinion @rishaadtv , include #trendingbusiness.ese exports falling for a fifth straight month, contracting 4%. what do these numbers tell us? >> overall the numbers aren't not good. they show that exports fell and fall you and were flat in value. -- they show that exports fell in for and were flat in revenue. we've been seeing gains in value and volume, but that has been slowing. we are essentially flat to the corridor, which is worrisome, because that had been a bright spark. china, the numbers were up for the month, but there is a reason for that because of the dates of the lunar new year being different this year than last year, compared data is different. overall, exports are not great from japan, and the concern is with the continued slowdown from china that with china being japan's largest trading partner that this is a trend that is expected to continue. there is concern about what happens with gdp in this quarter. last quarter was a contraction, and if exports are not there to appreciating the yen, they are not, there are c

@rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness. a look at what has happened overnight and so far this morning. vid: i looked overnight, it was not unbridled optimism, but there were danes -- gains. the chinese companies listed in the u.s., and i guess this will give you a sense of how things may trade when things open up in hong kong. let's look at what is happening in asia right now. markets opening up, taiwan, singapore, and malaysia, but it is really japan driving gains today. asia on its shoulders at the moment. we are looking at gains in the regional benchmark, because what we are seeing on the nikkei 225, a little bit off the high, two and a fraction. that is really enough to take the regional benchmark to the highest level in years. four the about 2930 msciasia index -- for the asia index. 9539. , mid last week, we are up about 1% on the dollar index. the news flow overnight, very much dollar positive. we had to w fed presidents coming out saying april is fine presidentswo fed coming out and saying april is fine. and oil pri

tweet us your thoughts at @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness. richest man has clinched his biggest deal yet, creating the world's largest cinema chain. amc in theontrols united states, and now and a $1.1 billion cash deal, buying arrival to create a formidable player. america's second and fourth biggest chains. regal entertainment group closed .ut with 7360 screens taken together, they will operate well over 8000 theaters across the united states. support in its privacy battle with the united states government. twitter has thrown its support behind the tech giant's privacy fight. microsoft, google, other companies supporting them. yahoo! and samsung. will backd they apple's position in a court filing. this case dems from the fbi demand that apple unlock an iphone belonging to one of the san bernardino terrorist attackers. privacy groups contend that the government's position could undermine encryption protocols globally, and the critical role of protecting people against online censorship. goldman sachs is cutting more than 5% of traders and sal

tweet us your thoughts at @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness.s meant to be a dismal earnings season when it comes to chinese lenders. the season has already started off with a surprise. >> that surprise coming from the bank of communications, as a price increase in profits for the fourth quarter. the expectations were for a drop in profits. to $2.2 billion, according to numbers derived from the filing. the higher income came from loans and fees. the badaged to outweigh loan charges. they had set aside more than $1 billion as a provision. this signals a drag on future profits and the need to set aside additional reserves. foxconn group edging towards the final stages of its sharp takeover. the boards me today separately. on hon hai announced trading is suspended ending a major announcement. it is reported a deal will be signed on april 2. shares of sharp are trading higher in tokyo. who will be the next chief executive of seven & i? bloomberg sources say that is under discussion as the company's nomination and compensation committee meet. a perso

follow me @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness.e gains here hot on the heels of what we saw on wall street and in parts of europe. happy friday -- a happy friday for the markets after central bank action and economic data around the region. where seeing this dovish fed effect playing out, without japan, of course. strength coming out of markets heavily dominated by mining stocks. a surging commodity prices benefiting from the u.s. to dollar dropping. up, driven by iron ore miners. asia, online, southeast dominated by commodity stocks. the straight times up by half a percent, malaysia up by 3/10 of 1%. extending losses. affect, a day of resurgent yen strength yesterday , another 3/10 of 1% today. that 110 handle briefly against the u.s. dollar, the strongest for the japanese currency since 2014. trading still at that 111 handle. dollar strength hitting other asian currencies, the aussie yuan.r, the korean wo it is a bit of a tug-of-war, one that bears are winning. gains ands driven by these commodities, materials, energy stocks, but

the ceo set to resign after the foxconn deal. ,ollow me on twitter @rishaadtv include #trendingbusinesswell. china markets underway. good morning. asian stocks swinging today as investors weigh china's move to cut its economic growth target. afterse stocks falling capping the best three weeks since 2014. the nikkei down, but investors say the recent rally and japanese stocks will stick. off ahead of a rate decision on thursday, another rate decision in new zealand. new zealand stocks currently unchanged. up, energy -- asx producers leading gains with that rebound and oil. oil just capping the best three-week rally we have seen in , gaining 1.5% per barrel, helped by speculation that a firming u.s. economy and government data showing production is starting to fall. let me take a look at the aussie dollar, falling 3/10 of a percent after climbing in the last few days. andlimbed all last week defies forecast, rising commodity prices, falling and expectations the central bank will help the and waiting for the rba deputy governor tuesday tomorrow. traders will be looking at that for more clu

let me know what you think about the top stores, follow me on theter @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness. positive signals from the session helping things along quite nicely. david: nothing has really .hanged koreat talked about north firing several missiles. why there is a premium built into that market. singapore, and, japan, three out performers. let's have a look at what is happening in south korea. indexart of the cost be kospi index. it is not immediately clear how many missiles were fired. we were just talking about this of stocks might be at risk because of the tourist flow from china. we are seeing a pop in the defense-related shares. have a look at the shanghai composite. , alsoown across sectors moody's revise the credit outlook for 38 state owned chinese companies from stable to negative. long story short, and this is based on their statement, the change in sovereign rating , their capability to thanrt soe's weaker moody's expected. china a picture of an economy that sputters on all fronts. sector slowed down in february. onare in beijing with a look the back of disappointing

follow us @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness. china-hong kong markets underway in 30 minutes.gapore, taiwan, and malaysia started. here is david. david: some weakness coming through in the last 30 minutes or so. markets in the philippines and hong kong open up. seatght see more weakness in because a lot of these markets have enjoyed quite a run up into friday. the fifth week of gains, philippines entering bull market. taiwan and jakarta might follow suit. we've also gotten to a point where some of these markets, a fairly big portion have entered overbought terrain. of thelking 20% philippine composite, 20% of the straight times index, hong kong also 20%, technically overbought. ,hat said, a few other things taiwan export orders coming out as well as hong kong inflation. apart from that, nothing much to trade on. we're looking at technical indicators. just something that's happened over the last five or 10 minutes or so, australia, the oil prices ,ome down, $39 for crude dragging a lot of the energy names lower in australia. that's it so far. we will see what happens when hong

. -- use #trendingbusiness. thailand and malaysia coming online. start to trading week, markets coming back online from good friday, but others still on holiday. new zealand, australia, and hong kong. all still on holidays. southeast asia joining the fray, weakness coming through from malaysia. it's pretty flat at the moment. strong gains from the japanese markets. , more fiscal stimulus , the announcement of further measures to boost mastic -- to boost domestic consumption. economy fairly stagnant so far, but seeing a substantially straightn, a seventh day of weakness when it comes to the japanese currency, largely on u.s. dollar strength. x up by 8%. , theghtly weaker yuan kospi extending gains. a bounce in oil prices on u.s. rig count, falling, so the biggest jump for wti and about a week, up 1% in the asian session. brent up by .5%. the yen driving a number of exporters around the region. adding to that story, chinese industrial profits coming out with a surprise upside number, so that driving the regional positive sentiment in a holiday-thin,

include #trendingbusiness.k at china's insurance, buying strategic hotels and resorts for $6.5 billion. the beijing-based company snapping up new york's waldorf astoria last year. insurance buying strategic hotels and resorts from blackstone for 450 million dollars more than what blackstone paid for the company back in december. if the deal goes through, it would be the biggest you a state -- biggest u.s. real estate fortress -- purchased by china. if you look at how much chinese insurers have spent lying overseas property since 2000 14, that's about $5 billion. this deal is six point $5 billion. anyverseas property system 14, that's about 5 billion dollars trade this deal is $6.5 billion. it has been snapping up properties around the world as well as in the u.s. it bought a property from blackstone, an office block in manhattan on 6th avenue, also buying insurers, including a charge e-groups fidelity in life for $1.6 billion in november. new york has aid lot of investment opportunities. it looks like he could

the #trendingbusiness. rio tinto had a heavy selloff earlier in london. in sydney, we are having a look at whether reality is setting in again for commodities stocks. it appears so. rio tinto and bhp both up about 3%, as is for to skew -- four to iron nor is weirdly stable overnight. every other commodity took -- weirdly is stable overnight. every other commodity took a hit. these are commodity lows we have not seen since november. it had an impact on bhp in london, off 8.5 percent. rio off 9.5 percent. look at green core, up 18.2 percent. anglo mining down 15 point 5%. makes what's going on here in australia look pretty tame by but it also raises questions about what we saw coming out of the chinese national people's congress over the weekend. trade figures were pretty wonderful. that seems to be underpinning much of what is going on in the commodities race today. rishaad: thanks. sydney.en in let's have a look at what we are watching. theambition to become world's biggest cinema chain. getting a bit of pushback. we have that story and some of the others

more about that story and more, follow me on twitter, use #trendingbusiness. across the board, looking out for trade numbers. we are on standby. let's look at what is going on with the markets. shery ahn: lots of markets right now turning negative. pulling down a just stocks today. japan falling for a second consecutive day, down 1.8%. stronger yen is hitting the outlook for exporters, not to mention we have final gdp data showing that the economy theracted one by 1% in fourth quarter. also a rally we saw in chinese stocks, not being sustained. shanghai composite down 2.5%. tech shares are leading the declines ahead of the data you mentioned. that is likely to show that exports declined. the hang seng is also down 1%, and kospi down as much, even with the korean won weakening. not even a rally in oil has helped energy producers maintain any gains. the japanese yen, it is strengthening for a second consecutive day, up half a percent. 113.5, approaching let me take you through -- let's top $40 a barrel. it is losing about 1% there. crude is also losing ground, s

follow me on twitter @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness.kets getting underway in half an hour. david is having a look at sentiment. david: it is risk off, not a rush to the exit. when you look at markets in europe overnight into where we are at the moment, mostly flat. holding theiry, ground in light of events in europe. asia at the moment, most markets on the way down. it is flat, volumes down. , likeg moves yesterday the drop in the pound, weakening avethe japanese yen, h held flat. taiwan comestoday, out with factory output after lunch. we are expecting to see a contraction there. singapore with inflation numbers at 1:00 p.m. local time, 16-month to see a dropped there. mostly speaking, big picture, nothing much happening. the next waiting for big catalyst to guide them forward. rishaad: big talking point today across the world, how will europe response and the attack in brussels. update, 11, a strike creating chaos among travelers. another explosion on a busy subway line, 20 killed there. wounded has topped 230. let's get over to brusse

best playerng the of a chinese board game. ,ollow me on twitter @rishaadtv use the #trendingbusiness. year,art of the hindu new jakarta in frame, as indeed the rest of the markets. asian stocks gaining for the first time this week, positive sentiment on expectations the ecb will boost stimulus. we already had a rate cut this morning. we have japan gaining 1%, turning positive for the first time this week, producer prices contracted 3.4% in february, in line with estimates. same story in china. the shanghai composite declining, extending yesterday's losses, down 7/10 of 1%. up. seng the cost be kospi up. .he weakening korean yuan oil, butbound and today losing ground, down 3/10 of 1%. see song this week after cap gain.ng its same story with brent, managing to hold onto gains above $40 per barrel, but still coming down half a percent. news, cpi, pping numbers, inflation data from china. >> millions of chinese traveling, eating out, shopping, dining, food prices were a considerable element of this latest cpi report, a bit thanger than expected. bloomberg called for a 1.8% increase, down

ministers has banks are taking actions to recover their money. ,ollow me on twitter @rishaadtv #trendingbusiness a turnaround in hong kong. here is shery. shanghai composite down 3/10 of a percent, falling for the third consecutive day, headed for a weekly loss. turning around a bit, but weakening all week. nikkei 225 reversing yesterday's rebound. utilities, financials leading the decline. a japanese court ordered

follow me @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusiness. 30sion underway minutes, singapore, taipei, coming online. a pretty lackluster session on the street of dreams. a quick rap of what happened overnight, europe next, , the s&p 500rated closing near the session low. just to bring up the risk aversion we are seeing in asia, have a look at what is happening in brazil. retreats been a next o from equities. the currency worst-performing currency globally across the majors, leading the losses across emerging markets. likeunsurprising, looking this, second day in a row that we have seen the asia-pacific benchmarks in the red. is happeningt what in australia, financials and the mining stocks taking the biggest hit within those two spaces. you have the banks and gold-mining stocks, which brings me to my next point, a stronger u.s. dollar again putting downward pressure on commodities, especially gold, time inn for the sixth seven days. if you look at the aussie mining space, all seeing declines. the mission in the biggest mover ,n japan, big ri

hashtab #trendingbusiness. were seeing modest moves ahead of the jobs data.ews coming out of those big events. we could finish the week on a cautious note as we wait for all that. global stocks have recouped the losses, more than half the losses, we saw this year. we have seen slightly better u.s. economic data and a little more optimism that china will do more to stimulate growth. shanghai down two thirds of 1%.

best playerng the of a chinese board game. ,ollow me on twitter @rishaadtv use the #trendingbusiness. jakarta in frame, as indeed the rest of the markets. asian stocks gaining for the first time this week, positive sentiment on expectations the ecb will boost stimulus. we already had a rate cut this morning. we have japan gaining 1%, turning positive for the first time this

let me know what you think about the top stores, follow me on theter @rishaadtv, include #trendingbusinessssion helping things along quite nicely. david: nothing has really .hanged koreat talked about north firing several missiles. why there is a premium built into that market.

more about that story and more, follow me on twitter, use #trendingbusiness. for trade numbers. we are on standby. let's look at what is going on with the markets. shery ahn: lots of markets right now turning negative. pulling down a just stocks today. japan falling for a second consecutive day, down 1.8%. stronger yen is hitting the outlook for exporters, not to mention we have final gdp data showing that the economy theracted one by 1% in fourth quarter. also a rally we saw in chinese stocks, not being sustained. shanghai composite down 2.5%.

amalso, don't forget .trendingbusiness the white house favorites are on track to consolidate their positionsd michael is in new york. e, what is ultimately at stake today? mike: about half of the votes needed are up for grabs today. favored to get those delegates. he is not expected to get the thatation, but it will be he is expected to pull far enough away. on the other side of the race, a similar story. hillary clinton is not going to secure the nomination, but she can make it very painful for bernie sanders to continue to attack her. in fact, bernie sanders has already spoken tonight, and his night is almost over. guess we should ask you, what happens when the dust settles? what happens next? we will have to see how many delegates donald trump wins and if any of his rivals win any states. ted cruz, one of donald trump's main rivals, his home state in texas is in play, and if he wins that state, he should be able to continue on. tonight, the home state of marco rubio and the home state for governor john kasich are both on the ballot on march 15. march 15 is the next big day on the republic