guy. >> eunice, how do the launches of apple products go here? here we always take the live shots of the stores on fifth avenue where people have been waiting online for three days, have slept there. want to get their hands on the first one. because they run out and then they have to order it online and get it in three weeks. do you see the same thing in china? >> not anymore. because the demand has been so strong for iphones, that at one point, the crowds became so large that people would even throw eggs at the apple store. and it really got out of hand. so apple decided that they were going to structure and organize all of the lines. so, instead, they put a lot of these orders online. they also got to introduce lots of different channels through other distributors and sorry sites in order to try to prevent that mass hysteria that we've seen for the iphone here. >> yeah, i haven't seen any eggs thrown on fifth avenue. eunice thank you. by the way, rose gold se, that would be the perfect phone for me. they named after me. >> they did name it afte

for more on this let's get to eunice yoon standing by with the latest. >> reporter: hi, nancy. the government acknowledged concerns about the economy and the slowdown in growth. over the weekend the chinese premiere said he decided to lower the growth target to 6.5% to 7%. that's seen as a positive move to many, but some economists, actually many economists, have been concerned that the policymakers in china still won't reach that level. they'll struggle. a lot of the commentary today by chinese officials and yesterday have been how the country here will avoid a hard landing. the central bank reiterated today that even though they're seeing more cross-border capital flows, that it was imaginable. also the finance minister today said that he finally addressed a very important issue for china, which is rising debt, which has been weighing on the economy. this is what he had to say. >> translator: raising the deficit is what's needed in the new normal. there are lots of problems cropping up under the new normal. by raising the deficit we are hoping the economy will realize mid to

let's get to beijing with eunice yoon.unice. >> thanks a lot, susan, the new chief of the regulatory commission the crsc met with the chief over the weekend. he replaces the former boss, mr. shellgon, a man basically blamed for mishandling the market turmoil with various steps of the government. more specifically the circuit break eer system that was put i place in january. he was very much blamed for it. it ended up creating a lot more volatility rather than calming the markets down. he wanted to reassure investors saying he vowed it was going to help step it up and help the recovery by not putting in place a circuit breaker system anytime soon. and he also said that reforms to the ipo system are going to take some time. he also mentioned that it's still too early for a lot of the state funds to withdraw from the markets. all of those are comments that local investors really wanted to hear. and he also at the same time defended the government's past actions. this is what he had to say. >> the government responsibility rem

>> eunice, thank you very much for that. saying they have to improve communication. >> and that's the key. the fact that even china's vice finance minister spoke to our eunice yun. at least they're talking. that has been a big part of the problem. >> i wouldn't write off any more surprises at some point this year though. >> just watch the yuan. it weakened for a second day in a row. >> third day. i think this is still something they have got control on. so minor moves now are slightly less important than they were back at the start of the year. >>> coming up, decision 2016. we'll bring you the results from four presidential nominating contesting, including a big win for bernie last night. >>> speaking of washington, good news for visitors to the nation's capital. this year, warmer temperatures are causing cherry blossoms to bloom earlier than expected. that's wonderful. >> have you seen it? we have to go. >> i'm definitely going. can't wait to get to washington. >>> the national park service now predicts the trees could bloo

>> eunice, great interview. there are some analysts who think that china now struggling a bit with economic transparency and it's become more difficult for them to lay out their multiyear plans compared to what they've been able to do in the past. did you get any sense of this? >> well, i think that this is what the concerns and criticism that the chinese government faces over their lack of transparency, or at least perceived lack of transparency, is what the vice finance minister as well as many other chinese officials are now trying to combat. he was talking about how he understood the spillover effect, he called it, of china's decisions on the global economy and that was one of the lessons that they learned. there has been just such a drum beat from other senior leaders from other countries. he said at the g-20 a lot of this was discussed and it was quite clear. he said many leaders here recognized and understood that china needed to step up and communicate better with with the outside world. hep said that w

eunice spoke with them. eunice. >> that's right, sara. he wanted to change.s hoping to reassure investors that china should no longer be a source of anxiety for the global market. he's very confident that they'll be able to manage an economic slowdown and that the government is very committed to carrying out and following through on their pledge to adheres to an economic target of around 6.5 to 7%. at the same time he said the leaders recognize that there is a need for economic reforms. in fact, he said the authorities were appointed to the fact as evidence that they are tackling industrial over capacity. now, one of the main messages he did want to send to global investors is beijing recognizes it needs to communicate better and he said the fact that senior leaders like him got a director from on high. this is what he had to say. >> very, very clear instruction to chinese officials. there's the policy. the outside market also important. we still have many things should be continue improvement. >> we also talked about a whole host of issues that are plaguing

eunice yoon has more of the highlights from the weekend.ood morning. >> reporter: good morning, sara. the government acknowledged the concerns about the economy and the continued slowdown in growth. over the weekend the chinese premiere unveiled the annual work report. he said in it authorities decided to lower the growth target from a range of 6.5% to 7%. that acknowledgment has been taken as a positive but many economists are still concerned that the policymakers will struggle to reach growth at those levels. at the same time, all day today and over the weekend the policymakers have been expressing confidence that china will avoid a hard landing. the central bank today said they did believe they will continue to see cross-burner capital flows, at the same time they say they're manageable. the finance minister addressing an important issue facing the economy, rising debt. the finance minister said they believe they would see more bad loans as the economy restructured, however they also believed those bad loans are under control. they also

eunice has the details from beijing. >> reporter: the chinese government has acknowledged concerns about the economy and the continued slow down in growth. the chinese premier unveiled the annual work report and he said authorities decided to lower the gdp target to arrange a 6.5 to 7%. that was seen as a positive. many economists are concerned that policymakers will struggle to reach growth at those levels. at the same time policymakers were basexpressing their confide that china would avoid a hard landing. the finance minister addressed an issue that's been plaguing the economy, rising debt. >> take the united states, for example, the current debt level is a lot higher than the 2008 standard. the economy is still recovering. we can't generalize that high debt will lead to crisis. it will impose more downward pressure on the economy. we need to regulate the debt. if we can get the debt included into our fiscal plan we won't have to be concerned that much. >> he also said the government had more room for fiscal stimulus. the deficit was lifted to 3% of gdp from 2.4% in 2015. main take aw

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cnbc's eunice uhn is live from beijing. eunice. >> thanks so much, simon.oncerns over the economy and continued slow down in growth over the weekend. the chinese premier presented his annual work report and said authorities lowered the gdp both rate to a range of 6.5 to 7%. now that acknowledgment was seen largely as a positive, but many economists still are concerned the government here will struggle to reach that level of growth. the at the same time, policymakers over the weekend and today were expressing their confidence that china would avoid a hard landing. the central bank said today they expected to see greater cross-border capital outflows but at the same time believe those would be manageable. also, the finance minister today addressed an issue that's really been important for the economy, and that is rising debt. the finance minister said that he believed that bad loans would continue to rise as the economy restructured. at the same time, he believed those bad loans were going to be under control. now he also said that the government here has roo

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eunice yun has the story. >> everybody is watching to hear what the leadership's priorities are at this year's meeting. this is a time when thousands of delegates come from across the country and gather in beijing to listen to what's known as china's version of the state of the union address. this is when the chinese premier presents his work report, which takes a look and gives some guidance for the rest of the year. some of the highlights are going to be the gdp growth target. that's expected to come in a range of 6.5% to 7%. inflation is also supposedly going to be coming in at somewhere around 3%. now, what people are also watching is the economic development plan for the next five years. the government is expected to say that they're going to hope to double real gdp growth in that period. another mantra we're hearing a lot is the need for supply side structural reform. this is supposed to be a cornerstone. president xi jinping's new initiative to try to revive the economy. if it does happen, many economists will be happy because it would be directly attacking some of the overcapaci

eunice followers that, if nature does this naturally, we can speed survival of the fittest along if weecide who gets to reproduce and who doesn't. if we get the fit people to reproduce and we stop the unfit from reproducing. that was the idea in england. it comes over to america and greatly adopted by the leaders in america. the people and supported eugenics include the president of harvard university, the first president of stanford, theodore roosevelt, alexander graham bell, and universities across the country taught eugenics. it was popular in the popular press and best selling books. this was a mass movement. people believed would be to upgrade our gene pool. amy: warded margaret sanger fit into this? controversy big where she fit in. she wasn't a leader in the movement. she was in part -- amy: explain who she was. >> the founder of planned parenthood. she formed a strategic alliance with eugenicists in part to get more support for her birth control and sets a bad things. on the right they used it to tame the idea planned parenthood, which i think is unfair. margaret sanger was in

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attractive but the very well outlet in europe has innovate been there so we have shown something to eunice after it didn't necessarily hit arts team, if you will, is you'll see more of these as this election and voluntaatility >> that increases from 6 to 10 percent in asian much of the exposure is still in asian there is exposure in latin america and global growth managers generally, we are pleased with the process we should see that exposure grow over time as the more recent candidates but the portfolio the merging market is young but there is indicative platform we view that is a growth market we think that has the opportunity to provide long term for the potential but a volatile - but in general it is for the difference indicativers- a few observations about first portfolios merging market generally, you will agree making candidates to asia in 2015 two more this year in 2016 and you'll see a couple of more throughout the years those candidates are made to both existing and new managers and been critical in evaluating it is a portfolio as it grows you'll see exposure to different strateg

taking the assets out of things like the equity and moving them into the defensive strategy doing more eunice talked about in terms of indexed income portfolio a more fixed strategy and defensive and liquid government core and more the private debt to look at the global banking market and energy we're cautious but we think is that it takes time for the oil. >> commissioners a report you might want to reopen we're on the managers under review at this point. >> so we're on item number 8. >> i'm sorry, i meant he's talking about general portfolios performance that was item 7 item 8 is managers under review to the extent it should be limited to the subject with the managers under review. >> you've heard the council. >> we've talked about the managers under review. >> perfect, thank you. >> any other comments. >> yes. if you're going to make respect to the peer group know who is the top that may not be a relevant ground peer group so that peer group may not be a useful thing i'm sorry, i was waiting to speak so this line of change that is the first time it happens like that. >> we'll make the adju