yvonne: malcolm scott has been looking at this. leave?in line to you have china, japan, taiwan. ange? malcolm: it is unprecedented. new zealand, indonesia potentially, and korea. we may not get a change in policy direction with the changing faces. some of these spaces may be reappointed. but over time seems fairly set. in china we have a new governor expected sometime between now and march. there is rampant speculation. but the policy part is fairly clear, keeping flush with money so the real economy can grow, but clamping down on excesses. that is unlikely to change. especially given any new government will have the same profile china has. -- the same profile china has. if you look at korea, they have been doing fairly well. it does not look like -- will be appointed. the governor has been reappointed since the 1970's. he was appointed by moon's predecessor, park. the president will want to put his own stamp on things. but it looks like a tightening trend in korea. one, is the other big another big economy facing change. the most recent surveys show there will probably not be ch

malcolm scott is with us now. what do we look at and what sort of landscape will be drawn?will see very robust imports. we are looking for about 17%. still pretty strong. thee numbers flattened by we conditions. we are looking at $39 billion. doing some of the math, that the ten-month surface to about 335 billion which is putting a on track for a balanced trade position this year compared to last year. is -- 1% toy, it zero the maybe some of donald trump straight techniques are little bit out of date. up. just brought that who knows china run a trade deficit with? number one, south korea. >> the numbers we're expecting today, does it go to continue tainted his narrative recovery? it should, especially when you have china firing on all cylinders. it is a good sign for the rest of the world and the rest of asia. the chinese import number for korea and taiwan. the trade numbers also going to .e very helpful of course, donald trump has been think he wants more balanced trade. he sees the deficits with china as a bad thing. and look at numbers suggest probably the u.s. deficit t

malcolm scott in hong kong.g news right now on bank of korea. for the first time since 2011, raising their key interest rate to 1.5% from 1.25%. 25 basis points. the bank of korea taking a quick look at how the yuan is trading right now. comioks like it is indeed lows, strengthening a bit against the u.s. dollar. much of this talk of the rate hike was indeed priced into the markets, the currency and equity markets. --in, bank of korea since the first time since 2011 raising the rate to 1.5%. paul: we do see modest gains in the yuan. modest being the operative word. industrial production coming in weaker. not enough to change the picture despite being somewhat of a curveball. contracting 1.1% with modest gains. as our guests forecasted, not enough to change the equation for the bank of korea at that late hour. tightening on the way in korea. the rate lifted to 1.5%. betty: i am looking right now, we're seeing a slight -- we are cossby continued rise in on the cost the index. -- rise off the lows. u.s.wing the it

malcolm young. he wrote all the material, didn't he? yes. sometimes bon scott wrote the lyrics. e been pretty inactive for a while. they toured — they did an album after malcolm retired. during the tour, brian had hearing problems and was told by the doctors that he could not tour, so axl rose from guns n roses stepped in. ac/dc kept going as a tribute to malcolm. what do you think is the future for ac/dc? there have been one or two murmurs that something might happen in the future. this throws all of that into question. i suppose fans will think that a couple of the guys who had retired might get back together for one last hurrah for malcolm. ac/dc have always played things by their own rules. they do not take any notice of the orthodox way of doing things so you might never hearfrom them again. they might feel it is right to honour the guy who made the band. unorthodox but big sellers. 200 million album sales. 50 million for back in black. that is phenomenal. back in black is the second biggest selling album by any artist ever. a lot of people like ac/dc. now the latest on the