today in the hina our addiction to pesticides and fertilizers is making food safety the most serious of issues not a single day passes where we feel safe and happy with our lives because this issue has yet to be addressed. as public alarm grows over the harm of toxins some in the food industry are stepping in to help. these aren't shoppers they're a team of inspectors wal-mart has hired to make surprise visits to their one hundred forty stores in china. after being caught in recent scandals over meat and other tainted products the grocery giant is now spending more than fifty million dollars to try to ensure their products are clean. the testers collect random samples which are then taken to a bank. each item is run through a cycle of tests says if pesticides growth hormones or toxic industrial agents are found a supplier can be blacklisted. but wal-mart's lead food inspector admits the industry is often one step ahead introducing new harmful substances that test can't detect. this is really a tough battle by the saying goes when the priest climbs a post the devil climbs ten. to cons

it was deep red for industrial commodities. ,hina has not been that great kind of mediocre.ickel ended down .5%. in the end, not a lot of action. rooted the big mover of the day. those are today's market minutes. scarlet: here with us now to discuss the decline in momentum and the rise of value is peter chung. imagine this is encapsulated by technology shares. how much of this is tied to tax reform and ended your rebalancing? being used as a cover for that rebalance. technology has outperformed every other sector by a wide margin, tracking 35%, where no other sector, just about 20% for the year. with tax reform making policy headlines and the potential soks for the new year, it is must an excuse to rotate out of technology and rebalance in other sectors. we were all commenting on how strong the earnings were for this sector. >> it has the potential to persist into here and, may be -- into year-end, maybe the on that. i think it is a window to reallocate going into the year. i don't get the sense that policy headlines will stop at year-end. in may add a lot to 2018 and we may

mistake cost her dearly the russians hina would profit from that era and go on to take the victory actually gold well of the united states took third place. on the men's side the home of a hero she draw younger would emerge victorious at the sochi twenty fourteen bronze medalist nailed a back full double full full to claim the tenth ball cup circuit win of his career second place went to max him by the us while lewis of canada completed the podium. and over in italy there was a victory for sweden's charlotte color in the women's ten kilometer free technique cross country event on saturday color one of the ten kilometer cross-country freestyle gold medal in vancouver two thousand and ten and she'll be hoping to emulate that in poland chunk after taking silver in the salty games. and on the men's side it was also scandinavian that tramp in the fifteen kilometer cross-country event norway's seaman higgs kruger would win his first individual world cup victory like so many others this is sure to boost his confidence ahead of those winter olympics in february. and over in germany japan as women s

david: before that we will talk about new borrowing by one of .hina's biggest conglomerates raising newat is really going on at hna group. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is daybreak asia. i am david ingles in hong kong. ramy: i am ramy inocencio in new york. rio tinto is naming a new chairman after shareholders were said to reject the earlier candidate. the commodities editor joins us now with details. thompson.out simon who is he and what does he bring? reporter: hello. , he is anpson experienced mining executive and also, he has got a lot of banking experience. he has worked at companies including newmont, anglo-american. he is 58 and a senior director at rio tinto where he is part of the remuneration committee. essentially he is a continuity pick is what i would say. ramy: all right. it is interesting because he actually was not their first pick. there was an attempt to name the other person, but what is the expectation for thompson? any opposition? andrew: mick davis was a far more polarizing figure, just a far more polarizing figure in mining. his hallmark when he was at extra was acq

they presented the scheme is hina to a deus ex mac an deliver all americans from the meaning of all men are created equal. but african-americans themselves played a vertical role in opposing colonization. many activists embraced their own vision of black nationalism in the 1850's and 1960's, but when you read black newspapers during those years, you can see the persistence of why colonization fancies and also to tireless of -- expatriation. so now that lincoln abandoned colonization after 1863, there was still some debate on whether he ever stop believing it would be the best solution for the problem all the mixed race society after emancipation offered. but if we want to credit lincoln with a growth on this longing, it is a port and to recognize these two external factors -- the latest: possibility of colonization, but the resistance of black americans to the plan. that played a huge role in undermining his faith in the bible of the of racial separation. of the practical applications to all of this -- how is any of this relevant to the present? more in which the ways the anti-slavery s

. >> reporter: -- flynn was tending to hina texting a former business partner, to build nuclear reactors in the middle east was, quote, good to go. as detailed in this letter from the house oversight committee's top democrat, elijah cummings to the republican chairman, flynn's former partner told the whistleblower flynn was making sure u.s. sanctions on russia would be ripped up once trump was in the white house. allowing the nuclear project that flynn once participated in to move forward. a possible economic incentive for the president's powerful aide. cummings writes, these grave allegations compel a full, credible and bipartisan inve investigati investigation. >> reporter: neither flynn or his former business partner responded to nbc news's request for comment. there was a moment at the end of the president's speech yesterday on jerusalem that caught a lot of attention. the president appeared to slur his words. take a look. >> let us rethink old assumpt n and minds to possible and possibilities. finally, i ask the leaders of the region, political and religious, israeli and palestinian

. >> corruption, no one traveling, 9.9% customers are mainland ,hina, and so that totally things wereau has rebounded. it isody is saying because of beijing's direction and it wants to get macau into non-gaming and the government is pushing back, but in general macau is changing dramatically. there are new hotels opening up, palace hasing, wynn been good. it was tough in the beginning, but has now come back strong. opening in 2019, so you have all these new hotels opening up and it is creating more diversity in macau. rishaad: it's more of the same, just different hotels. everybody is talking about non-gaming revenue. beijing is telling them they have to go into non-gaming. >> it is about having a better mousetrap. yes, gaming is gaming. the bodies are all the same. it is how do you dress them in clothing. >> there is a move towards non-gaming, so what do you guys think about it? >> there is a move towards non-gaming, having shows, probably las vegas bound. vegas, 50% is non-gaming revenue, and 50% is gaming. rishaad: do you ever see that split occurring in macau? >> i don't think the