it's something on of his oric knows all too well five years ago she started to hash tag outcry in germany. the nerves open letter rang through your warning bells for her. these are the dynamics that we've seen so far in every debate on sexism just as we saw in the german sixes and debate. it is of course sad that someone as privileged as catherine deneuve sends a message to victims that say's what they want what they are is too much or unreasonable the authors of the open letter say they're surprised by the massive rejection of their message this debate has exposed the split among french women in the battle against sexual harassment now china's economy was still running fast and furious last year but what about your thousand eight hundred card is here with more on that well thanks jim yes last year wasn't as bad as many have predicted growth slowed but the world bank's update says china's twenty seven thousand g.d.p. was still growing by six point eight percent driven by exports and a government supported construction boom for this year beijing forecasts six and a half percent growth and

if previous arrests are any oricator, kingdom holdings others, we could see major downside pressure ono, some of the analysts changes. an upgrade on union of electronics to buy. adjustmentsg perhaps on the back of the latest government handouts. conversationsour on how some of those consumers would use the extra cash, not just to spend it, but save it. also, some key events coming up as you warm up to other market action around the world. we have germany's november industrial production figures. back of then the consumer confidence figures we had. that will speak to the general european strength story. fx reserves in switzerland, and the u.k. selling some bonds. let's cross to some of the key throughets in focus some of our conversations. brent crude and gold, brent still holding on to gains, a .6%. gold, a little downside, and euro-stable. that is all we have for this edition of "bloomberg markets: middle east." "bloomberg technology" is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ berg. ♪ juliette: south korea has proposed dialogue with the north in over two years. they want to jointly enter the winte

well, when you look back historic orically and you look at the history of trust -- and i promise you it's interesting when you actually go back and you look at how trust really is like the social glue of society, trust is like liquid gold. without trust, human beings, they can't trade, they can't collaborate, they can't cooperate, they can't be vulnerable with one another. so trust has always existed. but in its first chapter, very long period in history, trust was local. really easy to understand. this is when we all lived in villages and communities, and trust was largely personal. so i would trust you because i knew you or someone knew you. and if you did something wrong, you'd get a bad reputation. and that would impact your ability to transact or have relationships in the future. now, what happened is when we went through mass migration, when we wanted to trade internationally, this type of trust didn't work. so as a society, we invented institutional trust. we invented things like corporate brands, brands that would tell us what products and services that we should buy. we inve