ramy inocencio. >> over in neighbored new zealand, the market finished just a little bit lower. that's after the two earthquakes hit christchurch, measuring 0.et 4% in magnitude, that comes after they're rae covering from the last one. today's events were enough to send the new zealand down nine-intelligents of a percent against the greenback. the nikkeis with down 0.7%. one was a fall in machinery in april. that was combined with a stubbornly strong yep and the yen down three-quarters of a percent. toyota and hyundai were the two big companies taking a tumble. here in hong kong the hang seng suchered losses but that came after tighter mortgage rules were introduced. the hang seng did bounce back later in the day. it's a fraction of a percentage higher. fashion label prada is set to float on the city's stock exchange one week from this friday and rumors are also around that football club manchester united will join later. fin finally across the border in china, it finished down more than 0.1%. charle

can you thin paint with it, ramy? >> it's funny you mention, because while i haven't seen this being used as paint thinner i've seen this be used to wash tables in rural chinese restaurants so this definitely cuts, charles so be careful. >> okay, ramy always the man with an answer. many thanks to you, ramy joining us live from hong kong. >>> now to an issue that we're monitoring intensively here at cnn, modern day slavery. the u.s. state department released its latest report on the trade in human lives. it's something of a report card on efforts to fight international human trafficking and here's what it says. this map shows the 184 nations and territories in the department's trafficking survey. the worst offenders are marked in red. they're followed by nations where human trafficking is less prevalent, in yellow, and orange, and the countries doing the best are in blue. one key aspect of this report is the addition of 11 nations that are not prosecuting traffickers and providing justice to their victims, are not maki

also bleak manufacturing consumer data that ramy alluded to before.t the close, the dow jones industrial average dropped by nearly 1.5 rers and the nasdaq and the s&p 500 each lost 1.75%. looking ahead to the next trading session in wall street, it seems as it's a bit of a mixed bag. of course, we have a couple hours to go if not more than that before the markets start trading. the s&p 500 remains in the flat territory. the other two markets down. >>> coming up next on "world business today," he's one of the richest oil men in the world. now he's talking to cnn. up next, victor vixleburg. >>> and in india, the central bank has yet again hiked interest rates. more on that on the show, just coming up after the break. uh, laugh lines? [ laughs ] not funny. act my age? -why? -why? -why? i love the sun. past sun goddess. every line has a story. [ female announcer ] we all age differently. now there's roc multi-correxion 4 zone moisturizer with roc®retinol and antioxidants. a lifetime of stress lines, sun damage, and worry wrinkles will fade in just 4 weeks

ramy inocencio has the latest developments. >> on sunday nintendo confirmed it was indeed hacked.d sony last week and pbs the week before. that would be luls security. the breach happened in mid-may but the company only confirmed it yesterday. in that statement just yesterday, the games maker added that the issue was resolved a few weeks ago and is beefing up security measures now. it said neither customer nor company information was compromised. it seems nintendo got off lightly. it's not clear whether that's thanks to robust security on nintendo's part or lulzak being nice. nintendo fixed it anyway. heart them. another post said they love the nintendo 64. as for nintendo shares, investors are falling a little bit out of love with nintendo right now with the gamesmaker. the stock closed down about 1.6% today at the close. charles? >> okay. we know what they are up to, we know what it does but we don't know what it is. can you shed any light on it? >> the group has a website. this is what they call is the lulz boat. they say all that matters is fun. it's the theme to the 1980s u.s

>> you know, ramy, the arrest of carson yeung seems to be a new blow for this football club. birmingham city was recently relegated to championship football in the uk, presumably this is bad news for its finances? >> you know, when you're saying that, football fans are thinking back to late may when that relegation happen. birmingham losing e ing ting to, 2-1. carson yeung's arrest comes as an own goal to a football club that's feeling down on its luck. nina. >> thanks. ramy inocencio, our asia business analyst. >>> up next on "world business today," a tropical storm churns off the coast of mexico. we'll be right back with all the details. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealt

ramy, thank you so much. ramy inocencio, asia business analyst. nina?ideo game sales in the u.s. fell slightly but still worth a healthy $13.6 billion and now projected to hit $17 billion by 2015. one company that's positioning itself to take advantage of that kind of growth is the french game maker ub soft, a business that got its start in the most unlikely place. jim bittermann has the story from paris. >> reporter: just another day at the office if your office happens to be at computer game maker ubisoft and if you're developing its latest video game, "just dance 2." if you want to evaluate the real gamer experience, you have to just dance, too. it's one of the most recent games in development, a company which the french like to point to as their own version of apple or microsoft, mainly because of its origins. the company was founded by five brothers from an obscure town in britain who inherited a farm supply business which morphed into a mail order company that morphed into a line of video games. they were part of the $50 billion a year video game

nina, back to you. >> ramy, thanks for that wrapup of the markets. with the major ind diaz se-- indices fell for the sixth session. there was extra pressure on some of the stock markets. the dow off by just under 0.2%. the nasdaq, the broader index had lost nearly half of a percent by the end of that session. let's have a look at how things are shaping up in the premarket action. fairly healthy green arrows across the board for the futures at the moment with the s&p 500 closely followed by the nasdaq, all up by 0.5%. >>> for saudi arabia's oil minister it was one of the worst meetings we've ever had. his iranian counterparts chalked up the discord to bad timing. the history books will show for the first time opec failed to reach a consensus on oil output. there will be no official rise in supply despite the demand. that deadlock meeting is bad news, of course, for motorists and the world economy at large in the short term. as john defterios explains, most opec members think the current price, it seems is right. >> reporter: after 5 1/2 hours of discu

and as ramy was showing us before the break, brent crude has risen by 23% over the same period. members of opec responsible for 40% of the world's total oil reserves do want to maintain current output limits, it seems as though the climb of crude will only continue. >>> it's a battle of possible demand versus realistic supply and jon han has been in the mid of that battle in vienna joining us live from opec. >> reporter: thanks very much, nina. it's interesting, they're 45 minutes into the meeting and i know they're number-crunching trying to solve the politics. it's one of the most interesting meetings in the last decade. first time we've had a country at war where we had different opec ministers take different sides, complicating matters because of the situation in libya, also fair to say we have a 15% to 20% price premium because of all the unrest taking place in the middle east. let's break down where we are and bring in a strategist and former corporate strategist with bridge petroleum, cornelia meyer. nice to see you. it's a fascinating as they sit down f you go around and

hi, ramy. >> it did close up about a third of a percent and thanks to tepco as well as honda motor. tepco shares rallied closing at more than 32%. that's good news for investors but let's remember one thing that tepco has lost about 90% of its share value since march 11 and still has a long way to claw back when you see that little up point just right there. that's where we are now. tepco is the operator of the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. it applies energy to about 26 million people in the region, and that area accounts for about one-third of the economy. the hang seng fell about two-thirds of a percent. the big headliner was nine drag ons paper, a recycled paper company owned by china's richest woman. shares fell 21% yesterday before trading was halted. that came after standard & poors actually withdrew its credit rating on the company. the s&p said had hadn't had access to their records the past half year so it couldn't give the company a proper credit rating. on over to the mainland and in shanghai the shanghai composite fell nearly 1%. that made sense after china's

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casa de su hijo ya sea en la noche del 21 mayo o la madrugada del 22 de mayo y se llev a la menor ramypadres.. cu ---varios activistas se manifestaron esta tarde frente a la estacion del bart en el area de la fruitvale, en oakland... take vo ---este es el lugar en el que un agente de la policia de bart dispar mortalmente contra oscar grant el primero de enero del aÑo 2009... ---a decir de los manifestantes, no se ha hecho justicia porque el agente johannes mehserle, muy pronto saldr en libertad condicional luego de cumplir una condena de 2 aÑos, pero ser liberado ms pronto por el plazo cumplido durante el juicio... ---mehserle fue encontrado culpable de homicidio culposo.. top vo ---estas son las primeras imagenes de giovanni ramirez, el sospechoso de haber golpeado salvajemente al aficionado de los gigantes de san francisco... ---ramirez podria haber estado involucrado en un tiroteo en el estado de nevada... ---segun la policia de los angeles, las autoridades de henderson, cerca de las vegas, investigan si ramirez participo en un tiroteo entre pandilleros... ---ambas agencias trabajan

ramie was heavily involved.d@just say one thing about what you just said, the committee that was formed after einstein wrote the letter in august of 39 had the so-called lyman briggs committee had a very unhappy existence. the americans really only picked up on the atomic bomb research after the british and the tube alloy program in england, shortly before pearl harbor suggested the nuclear fissn was possible. at that point, the americ program really took fire. to elaborate a little bit more on what einstein said about this, this is from your book, recordable einstein. great volume, by the way. >> thank you. a lot of surprising terial in here as to an indication of the range -- asyou pointed out. was a multi-disciplinarian. he was not in the narrow boards situation that scientists are in today whe"e they bore down and wn in a relatively small area. he was able to interrelate. he was able to coect. he saw -- huh? >> he saw the connections. >> this is what you quote him as saying. "i do not conside" myself the fat

they say she snuck into her son's home and took 4-month-old ramy right out of her bassinet as the babylept. the family says they're glad she's behind bars and hope the charges will stick. she'll be in court next week to enter a plea. her son did not attend today's hearing. >>> a look out for the blue tooth bandit, that's the warning from san francisco police tonight. this criminal approaches women in restaurants or bars. as a distraction, he drops his jacket next to them while he takes their wallets or purses which are on the floor or draped on a chair. the middle-aged african-american man generally wears a bluetooth device, hence his title, under 6 feet tall and well dressed. he walks with a distinct pigeon-toed gait. he has female accomplices and he's struck eight times in san francisco and is wanted in other cities as well. >>> while the virtual world makes its mark in the real world of drug and alcohol addiction, patients are now using avatar technology to help them recover. damian trujillo reports from santa cruz where the pilot project is delivering promising result. >> have you

ramy for an hour for the business team here in st petersburg well more next hour and throughout the dayere on r.g.p. over the course of the conference so stay with us.

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let's check in with ramy inocencio on what happened here in asia today. >> thanks very much, andrew. asia pacific markets closed mostly lower. in tokyo, the nikkei was down about a third of a percent to 9597. nissan motor kept today's slide from being too dramatic. it rose 1.3% after it said its annual profit wouldn't fall as much as expected. suzuki also surprised investors with about a 3% pop. it said global sales could rise by almost 7%. that's a quick comeback for both of these after march 11th quake and tsunami. over here to hong kong. the hang seng was down 0.5%. that's after words from fed chair ben bernanke and tightening liquidity in china weighed on financials. in shanghai, the ssec did a turnaround, up about 1.5%. that's the most in more than three months. this push came from investors who bought into property and cement stocks. those sectors are expected to benefit from a new social housing program ordered by beijing. and finally, down to australia. the asx 200 was down 0.75% to 4500. this decline was led by falls in energy and materials. of course, related to the global