honda and bridgestone suspended work on their factories in the area. kyushu shares fell .17%. inpex and japanex fell. analysts are not apartmentistic about an agreement. to recap the nikkei was down for the day but positively strong for the week. investors are seeing signs the slow down in china are stabilizing. >>> china's economy may be slipping but there's one industry that sees "room to grow" or even fly. executives with the private aviation industry have high hopes for expanding their business. >> reporter: shanghai airports are among the busiest in china. one of them is hosting a business aviation event that brings together about 160 companies from asia, europe and the united states. what has caught people's eye is the fast growth of the chinese aviation industry. many chinese makers are taking advantage of that and are displaying newly developed jets here. this plane is the product of a joint venture with a swiss manufacturer. the aircraft can operate on small airfields with short runway, whether they are paved or not. this other plane has just hit the market. it's chin

honda, bridgestone, and sony have halted production at factories.es say goldman sachs has embarked on its biggest cost-cutting drive in years. points to as -- slump in dealmaking. they are cracking down on entertainment spending. investorsy, he told he was keeping an eagle eye on expenses. those are the headlines from bloomberg news, powered by over 2400 journalistic in 150 bureaus. let's get the latest from the markets. here is david watching all of that. david: it is the time of the day when japan reopened from their lunch break. apart from all of this data and all of the metrics coming out, china is the bigger story coming out of asia. the other one -- we are continuing to follow news out of japan. the big earthquake we talked about. we were talking about the impact on the economy. a lot of companies have production there, news trickled in this morning that some of these companies are halting production for precautionary purposes only. toyota you a sense -- has production. sony has made one of its plants, confirmed there was no damage. the one ut

toyota and bridgestone in the automotive industry both falling today.nd sydney under pressure as said after ceo sam walsh the run-up in the iron ore price is overdone. it could in fact fizzle out. looking at currency, the china data gives us a boost to the all aussie dollar. levels we have not seen since june of last year. and we see good movements coming through an emerging market currencies as well. the korean currency is stronger by about half of 1%. but a little bit of pullback in terms of equities, after a pretty solid week so far. : anna thank you very much. have a good weekend when you finally get there. of china shows the world's second-largest economy stabilized in the first quarter. gdpathered pace in march, is 6.7% in the first three months of the year that is in line with expectations. industrial outputs, investment in retail sales -- all picked up last month for beating the forecast. we are joined by our beijing bureau chief, nick wadhams. good to see you. have the concerns about growth from the past several months, are they really abated?

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