david satcher steps down in spring next year making room for the first not german in the driver's seat. i've been fizzling that's your business the asian development bank is forecasting a slowdown in growth next year if he is a global trade conflicts could hurt economies across the region the lender also warns further interest rate hikes in the united states could disrupt currency markets and lead to bad loans but it also says expanding trade within the region could help make up for lost exports to the u.s. asia is now home to more than half the world's middle class. it's going to under a hang our asia correspondent standing by in singapore and brad just how much of a slowdown is the bank predicting. well it's maintained its forecasts for twenty eighteen and that's not very far away now for six the cent but it has brought down the twenty nine hundred fall cost to five point eight percent and us down from five point nine percent and while this might be a mean minute percentage it's largely a credit to a surprise surprise of course to the current u.s. china trade war and the effect of an