on the mainland, the shanghai composite posted 0.5% gain on friday, almost 0.6%, 2,288. on thursday it fallen to the lowest point in a week after china's manufacturing activity declined in may. since friday last week, the benchmark has managed to go up just about 0.25%. in shanghai, it closed at 22,618. that was the lowest closing level in just about a month. worries over the future of the chinese economy continuing to weigh on sentiment. the benchmark finished lower for a fourth straight session, extending its losses to 2% for the week. >>> let's get insight into the chinese market. for that we're going to speak with dickie wong from kingston securities in hong kong. very good day to you, dickie. thanks for joining us. >> hi, ron. >> we saw that huge tumble in asia's markets due to the weak pmi data which showed a contraction down to a seven-month low. that's your take on the current situation, and what's your outlook now considering all that's happened? >> right. well, i think selling may go away may be true at least for the local hong kong stock market, i think. after

. >> reporter: this chain restaurant is quite popular in shanghai. at lunchtime, young people and other customers pass the the restaurant. >> it's delicious. >> translator: it's kind of a new experience for me. i loved it. >> reporter: this supermarket sends all kinds of instant japanese curry cubes. >> translator: please try japanese curry, it's good. >> reporter: it's everyone's favorite in japan, but it's not so popular yet in china. foodmakers are opening schools and making other efforts. they're also busy creating products that better suit the taste of chinese customer if. >> it should be spicier. >> i think it's spicy enough. >> this maker added a spice called st. it is used a lot in curry. the color is yellower than similar products in japan. that's the way chinese people apparently like it. the company staff in charge of the chinese market are also targeting corporate customers. they're hoping that cafeterias, are for instance, will suv their curry. >> translator: curry tastes good with all kinds of ingredients including vegetables and chicke

mid 20s in shanghai. you're getting your rain showers here.eoul and tokyo staying dry, but down to 22 degrees. it will be a little bit of a drop there and beijing staying hot and dry towards the north. on we go into europe. there is a large low, and really starting to dominate all of western europe. it will be chilly and wet for you. out to the east there is another system bringing you thunderstorms and right in the center of the continent, we have that dry, warm weather. very pleasant here indeed. i want to show you some video coming out of moscow. to show you people there enjoying this early summer heat. it has been quite a heat wave, regard warmth surging in weeks after a period of world cold. many residents took advantage of record heat with advantages this week. they found the temperature was just about the same as at home. all right, things are going to be warming up for you in the center of the continent. kiev will be warm as well, thunderstorms, and temperatures dropping off towards the west. here is your extended forecast. >>> a canad

. >> reporter: three years ago, a high school in shanghai started a program for students who want to study in japan. it's the only high school in china where most classes of math and physics are taught in japanese. every teacher and textbook comes from japan. ♪ after studying for two years the students go to japan. there, they finish their last year at the partner high school. after graduating, they can apply to japanese universities. every student who has taken part in this program has gone on to study in japan. there are 28 students in the first year. most grew interested in japan through anime and other pop culture. >> translator: i love japanese culture, people, and manga. >> reporter: lu ling directs the school. he studied in japan 25 years ago. he says the good manners of the japanese surprised him the most. when he went to a baseball game, he was amazed that no one left any litter in the stands. he says japanese can teach chinese many things. >> translator: a man might have social responsibilities, but chinese education barely teaches them at all. that's the problem. >> report

do you want to turn this city into another manhattan, shanghai or hong kong? thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >> greetings, president chiu, members of the board of supervisors, my name is paul sedway and i live at 765 market street. i have served on the boards of heritage, contemporary museum and spur. i also led what at one point was the largest urban planning consulting firm in the united states, including over 100 environmental impact reports. our firm always tried to prepare eirs that were helpful as an evaluation tool, focusing on two things, alternatives and cumulative effects. and i would like to use that experience to address quickly the eir we have today. first as to alternatives, the eir offered two con flicting reasons why the original design was supersedeed offered considerable light and few shadows on jesse's square. and it would have a reasonable amount of air around it. as for cumulative effects, i believe that if we consider the level of spot-zoning that we have today, the city is going to be seriously damaged, and we will be reducing the human scale and unique q

they studied 14 patients in shanghai last month. all had had developed pneumonia despite taking tamiflu and other anti-vile ral drugs before being admitted to a medical facility. two were places on life support, 2 died. the world health organization recommends taking tamiflu and other anti-viral medicines to treat h7n9. researchers said they are concerned by the emergence of the drug resistant strain, but they still strongly encourage only treatment of suspected or confirmed cases. thousands of people who fled their homes following the fukushima nuclear accident want more support from the company that operates the damaged plant. they have filed a petition with the government arbitration body demanding an increase in monthly compensation. lawyers for more than 11,000 people and the mayor filed claims at the resolution dispute center. they represent more than half of the residents who evaluated the town in march 2011 just after the accident. they now live in various locations around the country. the plant operator tokyo electric power

they studied 14 patients in shanghai last month. all of them had developed pneumonia despite taking tamiflu and other antiviral drugs before being admitted to a medical facility. three patients had to be placed on life support. two of them died. scientists found a mutation in the virus contracted by the two. the world health organization recommends taking tamiflu and other antiviral medicines to treat n7h9. they researchers say they're concerned about the drug-resistant strain, but they still strongly encourage early treatment of suspected or confirmed case. >>> the leaders of japan and india are strengthening ties by focusing on an energy source that has been the subject of heated debate in this country. they've agreed to move forward with negotiations to sign a nuclear power pact. the deal would allow japanese companies to export atomic energy-related technology. prime minister shinzu abe and prime minister manmohan singh signed a joint statement after a meeting in tokyo. the countries will speed up negotiations so they can conclu

shanghai lower, hong kong lower by 2 1/2. and korean kospi. the size of it relative to the economy. often does what it wants on certain days. it doesn't often go along with the rest of the world. the second thing about shank lili shanghai, the manufacturing data out of china, negative for the first time in seven months. that's frightened a lot of folks. that's why shanghai was lower and also, take a look at what happened with europe which just closed about an hour ago. came off the worse levels but still down significantly. london lower by 2%. france, germany, down by 2%. and spain off by more than 1%. it's continued into latin america as well. latin america probably reacting a lot to china because, remember, economies like brazil, chile, argentina ship natural resources to china, soy, copper, et cetera, et cetera. mexico tends to trade a lot more with the united states but still lower. flat. it's actually come off the bottom just like the u.s. brazil is lower. argentina is lower by 2/3%. scott, the china manufacturing data. >> michelle, thank you for that. >>> stephanie, japan trad

finance within companies that are on the shanghai composite. it's trying to control inflation not necessarily interest rates. provides a way to keep inflation low. >> an excellent point and the impact of the market. thank you very much. >> thank you, by the way. it's not the best performing market in the world. guess what is? perhaps the new pope is having an impact on argentina. >> still 11th. not too bad. >> americans don't like to yell that. >> i just mentioned gold. earlier on today and making a bit of a come back. silver and platinum are all on the green with silver being the biggest winner today. none of those metals are positive year to date. >> still ahead, what gm said that shows maybe just how bad things have been run at the company a couple of years ago. talk to fill lebeau about it next. it's as simple as this. at bny mellon, our business is investments. managing them, moving them, making them work. we oversee 20% of the world's financial assets. and that gives us scale and insight no one else has. investment management combined wit

the shanghai composite outperformed, gained 1.2% today.ng up 1% despite the soft hsbc china services data. ipo news, the hong kong borse will see two new listings. sinopec engineering and galaxy securities are planning to launch in hong kong. that will help revive hong kong's slowing ipo market where deals are more than halved in the first quarter of this year. elsewhere, japan is out of action today. it's malaysia, soared over 3% to an all-time high on news that the national front coalition is extending its six-year rule. and note that malaysia is, in fact, the underperformer in southeast asia this year, up less than 4% including today's rally. that's way below the best performer, the philippines which climbed more than 25% year-to-date. in australia, the asx 200 up 0.5% today ahead of the rba decision tomorrow. but in south korea, weakness in automakers and technology shares dragged the kospi lower by 0.2%. back to you, louisa. >> li sixuan, thank you very much. we'll see you very soon again. >>> let's move on and talk about the jobs mar

nhk world, shanghai. >>> most chinese students that want to study in other asian countries choose japanparents say it's because they want their children to land good jobs after graduation. despite tensions, economic ties remain strong. >>> a congressman is pushes to ban the production of these weapons. he spoke out after a group made the first gun with the technology. the nonprofit group in texas put blueprints on their website. anyone with access can make the gun. they work by building up layers of terrible to create solid objects. >> we're facing a situation where in terrorist can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. >> the debate over gun control in the united states game stronger last year after a gunman killed 26 people at a school in connecticut. >>> japanese and brazilian researchers say they found a city that may have existed at the bottom of the atlantic. researchers surveyed the plato off of the coast of brazil. they collaborated with brazilian geologist taking a submersible to the bottom of the ocean. they said they spotted a clif

shanghai looking at 31 degrees on sunday. in north america then, there are two areas of severe weather. one in the south over the arklatex region. hail the size of a chicken egg can be found and tornados cannot be ruled out into thursday evening. and to the north, severe thunderstorms may occur into the next several hours. these systems will head to the east as we head into the weekend. out to the north, scattered thunderstorms in the northwestern u.s. it's still like winter there. out towards the west, looking dry. very warm for this time of year. 26 degrees in seattle. that's 8 degrees higher than where it should be. 21 for vancouver with plenty of sunshine, but cooling down in chicago as well as toronto. meanwhile, locally heavy rain will persist across the british isles and lots of hail, risk of hail, thunderstorms and heavy rain will drift toward the east over the continent. temperatures over central and eastern europe are on the warmer side. 26 degrees for you in warsaw. 25 in moscow and 28 in kiev. warm weather will co

the shanghai composite climbed nearly 1.4%.s follows a report that approval for qualified foreign institutional investors may resume soon. in the auto space, byd jumped 3.6%. dongfang electric and shanghai electric also went for the race jumping 4% to 5.5%. macquarie jumped 10% after better-than-expected earnings. westpac failed to hold on to its gains and ended the day in the red. back to you guys. >> sish win, thank you for that. we're looking at euro/dollar gaining. remember on wednesday we were trading at 1.3243. we thent went sharmly below 1.30. you can see this morning, back up at 1.3132. this is after the ecb bond member suggested markets may have overreacted and overinterpreted what mr. draghi said. >> i think the markets further interpret this point. of course, there's always some kind of a technical discussion about it, but there is no specific plan in that direction. i think this is something one has to analyze very carefully. so this is something of relevance in the immediate future. >> what would be the immediate e

they were having a conference in shanghai. to new york. that has me very nervous. >> i think a lot of people who had signed up to go to shank lie looked at the current deaths and said i'm not so psyched about going there. it changed to new york. it doesn't mean we will have a global pandemic. >> how many people live in shanghai? >> more than five. >> how many is it now? >> 113k. >> 33 cases and 13 fatal. >> and how many people live in shanghai? >> when they report that much, you know it is much more. >> are we going coach or business? >> it's a concern. the hedge flyers don't want to go get bird flu. >> i don't know if you covered it in the newsletter this morning, ben bernanke, tim geithner. >> ft piece by ed loose basically arguing for summers as the most likely successor i don't think it will be larry summers. there's no huge argument against her except she's dovish at a time when you might want a more hawkish person in the job. larry summers is no hawk either. people don't like the guy much. as smart and brilliant as he is

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chinese metals miners tanked today after shanghai's prices dropped shortly. in australia, rio tinto -- medals and new gold miner fortescue slipped 2% to 4% today. over in the tech space, sharp shares jumped to nearly 5% on reports that the company has received a $1 billion credit facility from japanese lenders to help repay its upcoming debt. but chinese pcmaker lenovo tumbled nearly 3% in hong kong after discussions that ibm's server unit has been caught off. >>> still to come, bmw sales driver quarterly growth. we'll take a look at the german giant's results when we come back. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more than two billion dollars to grow jobs, cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years, and we're creating tax free zones for business startups. the new new york is working creating tens of thousands of new businesses, and we're just getting started. to grow or start your business visit thenewny.com shares of shell have rise

actually well above average into shanghai. you're getting up to 27 as well and into the tropics, just those afternoon thunderstorms you typically get here especially with the daytime heating. towards europe we are looking at a low pressure area. in the balkan peninsula, 72 kilomet kilometer-per-hour winds. heavy showers will work of off toward the east but webs into thursday, especially wednesday night overnight into thursday morning is really when it will be its heaviest as it pushes into overhead. then into the north across the low countries, actually in eastern germany, currently seeing some fairly heavy showers here. that's going to work its way to pull in behind that, a trough still sticking around here but cooler air is working in from the north. on wednesday we actually saw temperatures of 16 to 17 degrees in london and paris, now down to 12. but by friday, definitely get your jackets back out. that's your world weather. here's the extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all

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[applause] just recently, thank you, i had the deputy chief of shanghai coming over to ask us how we manage events here. i just wanted them to understand how we do it differently and how they can improve. this is not the first time i have had that happen. from what i have observed over my 32 years in my time on line as an officer, i was an officer before my first promotion, i have received, and we have all received, thanks to our outstanding training, if there is any need for some kind of tactical response, our team is the best in the country. >> thank you for reminding me that we are at the top for the new academy class, working with officer buckner -- right, gary? to talk about the new entertainment. this is what we do and how we do what we do. it is my vision to have some kind of special team in place in the department that focuses in understands my life. we are a little bit of a ways off, but that is what i would like to do. >> how can a new club owner in gauge so they know the rules and regulations and what is expected of them? >> essentially, we tend to reach out to club owners

more widely to the united states, mexico and places which are off the beach and track to winnipeg, shanghai, tokyo, bombay etc. and then coming back so there is one way of looking at this book is really a tour of the world. >> use a london was a financial capital of the world. it's 2013. where is london today? >> the financial capital of the world. there is something else about 1913 in that it's the capitol of a great empire and it's entirely disappeared but that is one of the interesting parallels there or in the book between 1913 and now and it's a cosmopolitan city and free global said the. it's a cosmopolitan city now. in 19 it's about wall street. many of those states eco pretty powerfully today between wall street and main street. >> what about china what was it like in 1913? >> it's been one of the most fascinating things to me an undertaking the research of this book. it's important for us now to understand how much through all the 19th century and early 20th century china was besieged by the west. there's a wonderful photograph i have of u.s. marines inside the soviet and this peri

temperature wise, a little bit cooler down in shanghai today. 21 degrees. 25 meanwhile in chongqing. wet weather is moving into tokyo as well, 25 degrees here, staying dry and warm in beijing at 26. okay, let's head on into europe. here the west is still goi to be dominated by this low pressure system. it is split into a couple of systems now. one taking aim at the iberian peninsula, france and coming into italy here. you're going to be seeing severe thunderstorms, gusts up to about 60 kilometers and hour and toward the alpine region in italy. short-time heavy rain as well. anything up to about 50 millimeters in the space of just 6 to 12 hours can cause flash flooding. fairly chilly out here as well. the rest of the continent looks quite warm. it is going to be unstable for western portions of russia as well as down and darnaround bla sea, turkey area. but between these two areas of rain and storms you are going to be finding dry weather, high pressure pushing in toward the baltic states so that's going to improve your temperatures here and keep things dry. we'll take a look at those

even shanghai. most of the weekend it is going to be absolutely baking across much of eastern china. some sunny skies in place once that front decides to move off there towards the east. now here into the western portions of the americas, an upper-level low continues to spin into the central rockies. what this is doing especially just west of denver, we're seeing the risk of snowfall, upwards 15 to 25 centimeters. the same low will split up, push off toward the east, organize. well, it is in may and this is the time of year when these lows start to push off like this, you see that risk of some severe weather. we're talking about ping-pong to baseball-sized hail around kansas, oklahoma, you could even see the risk of a tornado or two here as this does push off. and then winds possibly upwards of about 100 to 110 kilometers per hour with this storm system, eventually shifting off to the east and northeast by the weekend. for now a low pressure area will linger here making for unsettled weather around

general motors spending $1.3 billion to start produci cadillacs and new jobs in shanghai.this after getting $50 billion bailout bucks from u.s. taxpayers. gm saying it wants to stay competitive in china's growing luxury vehicle market, but critics say our bailout dollars were used to rev up american jobs, not jobs in china. so who's right? hi, everybody, welcome to "forbes on fox." let's go in focus with rich carlton, rick unger, elizabeth mcdonald. you're fired up about this. >> i am. what we'reta

general motors spending $1.3 billion to start produci cadillacs and new jobs in shanghai. this after getting $50 billion bailout bucks from u.s. taxpayers. gm saying it wants to stay competitive in china's growing luxury vehicle market, but critics say our bailout dollars were used to rev up american jobs, not jobs in china. so who's right? hi, everybody, welcome to "forbes on fox." let's go in focus with rich carlton, rick unger, elizabeth mcdonald. you're fired up about this. >> i am. what we're talking about is a politicized bailout. what's happening here is, you know, china gets the jobs but we're stuck with the taxpayers paid for vanity projects like the chevy volt and no jobs here. i'm all for gm building in china, i don't have a problem with that. this is a political bailout. they were not allowed to restructure and get toyota or a korean company to buy gm in a bankruptcy and make it even healthier to avoid having do a bailout. they still owe us, by the way, $20 billion. >> we're the reluctant holders of gm stock, which is not at its original price. rich, the dispro

shanghai composite was up by 0.6%.oint that there are some gains here.

the shanghai composite fell 1.2% just about to 2,275. investors sold major issues like banks and oil companies. in hong kong, shares are down pretty much across the board, extending its losing streak into a third session. the index down another 2.5%, 22,669. >>> now, one analyst that we spoke to said the chinese economy has a long-term impact on other asian markets and the region's economy as a whole. here's a senior executive fellow at the fujitsu research institute. >> in respect of the economy of china, there are several important questions being raised. the first, what about the growth rate, which is currently less than 8% during the last three quarters. and then chinese export is beginning to show some sign of weakness. this is partly due to the weak demand in europe but more importantly, the wage in china has been going up so rapidly that chinese product is losing competitiveness in the international market. thirdly, there is talk in the recent past about the hidden debt of chinese local governments. then comes the industry overcap

. >> yan bo is an affluent interior designer in shanghai. his wife would not talk to us about why she had her child in the u.s. while on a tourist visa. but he explained u.s. citizenship would give his son a better life. yan was particularly concerned about access to healthier food. he also, surprisingly, talked about access to food stamps, but the main reason is to give his son a better, less expensive education. >> regarding, financial advantages, if in the u.s., he will have some. for example, the government will give him $300-500 u.s. per month. this is only a shopping voucher. but in china he cannot enjoy these benefits. other benefits are free education, healthier food, unlike in china where these days we don't dare to eat anything. i do believe that the american education system is better than the chinese education system. really it is better. what they do for the child's creative ability, and the freer study environment are far superior to china. >> yang bo and his wife are part of a growing trend engaged in a practice known as birth

shanghai rose more than 1%.seng was closed for a holiday. >>> wall street stocks stumbled on signs of a slowing economy and comments from a fed official the central bank could end the bond-buying program by summer. the dow ended 42 point lower at the close on thursday. the nasdaq lost six points. >>> jcpenney's troubles have deepened, reporting a 16% drop in first quarter revenue yesterday. they are struggling to recover from the strategies of ousted ceo ron johnson. the company's stock fell almost 2% in after-hours trading. >>> dell's first quarter earnings plunged 79%. revenue was down 2%. dell's problem is the big shift by consumers from personal computers to smartphones and tablets. the stock fell 1.5% in after-hours trading. >>> a labor group says foxconn apple's largest supplier, is improving conditions for its workers in china. the fair labor association says factory workers are working 49 hours per week, that's down from 60 hours, but it is still 9 hours more than the legal limit in china. foxconn and ap

sporting celebrities present for the ceremony another man that will be here is to make return to shanghai he is the head of the sochi organizing committee he's responsible for making sure all the preparations run smoothly and he has given guarantees again about security at the games saying that the government is taking exceptional steps to make sure they will be safe and secure he also talked about the concerns about snow fall because sochi has experienced a very mild winter this winter but he says that tons of snow is now being stored under blankets up in the mountains krasnaya polyana to cover any shortfall so the message is everything is on track they will get off first glimpse of those medals and reform or. simply just. a blank said driving across violence paid to iraq in baghdad taxi. destruction is one thing the media does very well we all tend to focus on one spicy issue of the moment and ignore the rest jubal's are definitely worth the media attention but let's not ignore the fact that the food people eat around the world is an attack from multiple fronts antibiotics are often ove

while, officials say, a huge team of chinese military hackers, operating out of this building in shanghaiues to refine and accelerate its efforts to rip off u.s. military designs. the pentagon spokesman said today that there has been no erosion of u.s. capabilities, still what's happened is serious enough to make some analysts wonder if, worst case, chinese hackers would be able to shut down the ability of the u.s. military to defend or to counterattack, diane, in a time of war. >> all right, brian ross, thank you so much. >>> now we turn next, right here to the jersey shore, where people are battling back seven months after hurricane sandy, and today, that political odd couple, reunited to celebrate jersey spirit. president obama and new jersey governor chris christie touring the point pleasant boardwalk. they even went head to head in an arcade game. governor christie won. he gave his stuffed bear with the chicago t-shirt to his new friend. 161,000 families were displaced by hurricane sandy and seven months later, the number has shrunk, but 39,000 families are still displaced tonight. >

very quickly ask you, tim, we hear in the united states, we take our q from what's happening in shanghai and europe. when was the last time we took our cue from what's happening in japan? >> let's get back to sanity here. this, to me, this is really the place we should be worried about, but i agree with you, so, it's -- first of all, second largest bond market in the world, third largest company. the most radical moves of any compa economy. think about what they are doing. we're buying $85 billion a month, they're buying about 55 and this is an economy that's about one-third our size. so, on a level, they're doing a lot more than the fed. and granted, as steve said, a lot more they could have done. this is an economy that's been stalled. >> and some asking for more to be done. okay, we have to leave it there. our next guest was one of the very first strategists on the street to call for a super bull run. now that we're approaching his 1,700 s&p target, he's here to tell us what to expect next. let's welcome until barry bannister, cheech strategist. great to have you with us again, sir. s

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so we are i was saying looking at some buildings in shanghai hong kong and thinking i wonder how they will sit on broadway and meanwhile, we continue to be one of the greatest cities and over 100 miles of bike lanes and i have a little competition on that i'm ahead of him thousand and we are one of the city that is have changed the way that -- knob snub and we are proud that what we have been able do that and we are one of the most liveable laces in the world, oakland has better climate, but we are an amazing place to live and an amazing place for creativity, so, we have pandora and the little cluster of software companies around had a and we have a very nays-growing industnd

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