down with -- let us break this down with ronnie chan. always great to see you. ut this drop in property sales. are you disappointed? how are you reading what we saw in the first half? ronnie: not at all. a is transitioning from being property investment and property sales company to become basically property investment company. yvonne: what does it tell you about the property demand in hong kong at the moment? i think starting to slow down or could things revive in the second half? ronnie: in the long run, there is always a shortage of land. yvonne: you're are talking about selling properties. you mentioned some of the inventories you still have. 13 units, 12 of which are in happy valley, of course. what is the strategy to sell down those units? they have been taken for some time now. ronnie: yes and no. sell itbeen trying to consistently. the problem is it is rough. hong kong dollar has popped. there's not many buyers. whenever we can find one, we are very happy to sell them. we sold three in the last six months. yvonne: what is the strategy now? we are coming a

>> that was ronnie chan.ing to yvonne. >> reports from hong kong say that they might cut jobs on overseas operations in the latest attempt to get back to profit. they say the carrier is discussing the consolidation of overseas sales. marketing and airport operation. employed in about 100,000 locations from hong kong. customer enthusiasm tends to delay the model three. the bank said that key areas and second-quarter results on sustainability and model three production are at 5000 week. there is a marginal improvement. they are respecting a second core lasting three dollars a share. >> they have fired about a dozen employees at the chicago exchange after applying the -- acquiring the business earlier this month. the ceo left the chicago exchange and tried to sell itself to investors led by chinese conglomerate in a deal that was rejected by regulators. more coming up over the next hour of markets. this joins us in tokyo to talk about the flexibility. anticipation, the yen treading water at around 11 against the