more details with david stringer shortly., keeping an helius after reports that healthcare player will afload operations at a time global fund set to be considering a takeover offer and bears watching on a report that its prime sale of project in queens sland on the back burner and origin may of gasidering an i.p.o. operations. shery: thank you so much, sophie kamaruddin. the u.s., the longest government shutdown on record, entering a fifth week. president trump and senior democrats are taking the first small steps toward a possible playstation -- and border security. bill, great to have you with us. saw a few minutes ago president trump tweeting that if walls aresi thinks immoral, why isn't she requesting that we take down all the existing walls between u.s. and mexico even the new at herilt in san diego strong urging, let millions of unchecked strangers flow into the u.s. this doesn't seem to be the rhetoric of anybody who's ready deal.e a bill: the weekend started with hopes that maybe republicans and start workingd out so

let's go to the senior energy reporter, david stringer. what is the outlook for bhp? you say, we have had that production data earlier this morning. the key thing we are looking for are the impacts -- in november, it was quite a dramatic issue in its iron ore region with a runaway train. a driver to these enormously long iron ore trains and it hurtled off without them, speeding about 90 kilometers in western australia before it was deliberately derailed. that led to an outage of a rail line for five days. bhp told us it cost them about 4 million. we saw shipments in the quarter drop about 7% compared to the prior year. so quite an impact from that incident. it does mean they are slightly off track in terms of full-year guidance. what we will be looking for is a stronger performance in this opening six months of 2019 to get them back on track. no cause for alarm yet. they are not making any adjustments to guidance but investors will be watching and looking for a better performance in iron ore. shery: volumes are down to the oil division after that u.s. shale assets, so

. >> for look at what to expect in 2018, let's get to david stringer, joining us from melbourne.been. tell us about what will be driving some of these commodities. >> the thing that will really be watching or some of those factors that drag commodities down last year. there was worry about the u.s.-china trade, concerns about a slowdown in global growth impacting materials. ,he bloomberg commodity index things from metals to crops to energy, fell 13% last year. that was on the back of annual gains above 2016 and 2017. worries about global growth and demand, that's what people are looking at this year, particularly the extent to which that slowdown in china will impact various raw materials. china is the top consumer of commodities, so a lot of interest there. the only bright spot for some maybe greater chinese stimulus could provide a lift to some materials, potentially things like base metal. rishaad: i'm just looking at gold at the moment. from november 15, have a look at what happened. up nearly 7% to now. what about a potential bright spot in the commodities complex for this

thank you so much, david stringer.ents, that's the function that takes you to our chart library. in case you missed some of the charts we brought up in the show, you can stroll up and down, and hopefully find them. if you don't, we will try to work on that for you. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ welcome back. let's get a quick check of the /is flash headlines. starting over in japan, shares of the company, not a good day at the office. down the most in four years. that the regenerative cell failed to meet expectations in a trial in the u.s. shares remain untreated. traded -- remain on untraded. in the stepping stone to the main trade -- main tokyo market. yvonne: that's a big story today. feeling the heat from the slowdown in the world's biggest car market. the 2018 in china says profits may have plunged more than 90% with sales of a venture down half to a level lusting -- level last seen in 2012. chinese carmakers are reeling in the loss of deliveries because of the trade war. david: have a look at this. down the most two yea