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hong kong is expected to follow singapore to pull out of a recession.ong do you see this recovery here in asia? >> i think it's quite a decent economic recovery. i think q1 will mark the low points in the cycle. i think what's been happening in recent months is that we've seen an impressive rebound in ex ports. the world trade shop that really hurt asian growth last year is dissipating. certainly, you know, those economies that are very cyclical in nature and that react quickly to any turn around in ex ports, particularly the strong growth in incident tra asian ex ports that we've seen is all going to be good news. i'm expecting a decent number. we're seeing it elsewhere in asia. chinese growth is holding up really well. but i think domestic demand is strong enough to ensure and underpin that we get further growth going into 2010. >> and neal, we are getting those numbers as we speak. hong kong gdp is down 3.8% versus a forecast of 5.5% and that's better than the 7.8% decline year on year. so it looks like perhaps year on year, things are looking better

that was from tokyo and moving on to singapore. >> thank you very much for that, asuko. we're taking a look at the greater china region, the shanghai composite closing higher. in fact, the market opened down 1.5% at the opening. there was a lot of concern about potential credit tightening up as the central bank released a 2008 report yesterday. that seemed to take a back seat. investors sticking to the wrath of the biggest companies in china listed in hong kong and the shanghai exchange. one of them coming out was sino, its profits more than half pp versus about 27 billion a year ago. but you have to note that oil prices, of course, were substantially lower. the average selling price about 49 u.s. dollars versus 102 a year ago. the stock price was down and oil prices were down on trade the previous day. we'll take a look at market reaction. overall, we have positive results out of most of the blue chip companies out of china to help fuel the gains. back to you in the u.s. mike. >> thanks, adam. investors get their hands on another pair of economic reports. demand for big

one problem they run into is companies love having them over there in singapore but they don't give much thought to what to do with them when they come back. these guys know that so they look around and there is a chapter in the book about why call the boundary less courier. these are people that have no attachment to any particular institution. the attachment is to their skill, that and their attachment to their occupational group called the engineers around the world and they are all members of associations all helping each other out when the companies are not. >> does this have an application for the efficiency of the corporate sector if people do not have any kind of loyalty to the company's, just getting ready to jump the ship at any time? >> i think you need an industrial psychologist to confirm that. >> i really do. a person in a new job full of this and vinegar to do the job will enhance his career and reputation might work harder and better and more efficiently than the guy that has been there for 20 years. >> okey. thank you. >> two quick questions. one, does this address black

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people and he said because it's hard to get the people in the u.s., we will locate in hong kong or singaporee and we're seeing microsoft for the first and has moved a research and development facility outside into vancouver because it's easier for them to get the people that want in canada. that is what companies will do. they can get them here they will go elsewhere. >> jackie, does it make sense to say that the mexican people are the ones that suffered the most of 9/11? >> i would agree. from my story through my research yes of mexicans essential -- central americans have paid the price of are very confused by it. i just returned from mexico an indefinite number of the few interviews for a different project and it was really heartwarming chondroitin -- for people who have returned for economic reasons because this so difficult to find work. what great feeling they still held in the american people. it is just so shocking and they don't understand what happened in the government and the last year. again recanting exactly what you have said, we knew nothing about this terrorism and we have n

singapore, hong kong, taiwan. you can go down -- it is a robust set of standards. we did not just throw out things that we thought were important. we focused on the essentials. that has driven the philosophy behind, what is in there and why? >> cms? >> [inaudible] in my lifetime this level of standards, so i commend you for that. are you also planning on parallel working towards national assessments, because we do know that this is just the beginning. we know that assessment tries instructions. how hopeful argue that the states will actually adopt these national standards, understanding that they will have to revise state assessment to match the standards, which is a very expensive proposition. i am wondering the incentive for them to be able to do this. is the federal government going to be supporting the development of these new assessments to match the standards? >> when we had the meeting in chicago with 37 states represented, one of the things that particularly the state superintendents emphasize -- and we gave them a draft memorandum. they said, we do not see

what is up in this morning in singapore? let's have a look with adam. >> it's a very interesting trading session in asia for the most of it. the markets were fairly resistant. i have to say, it was a difficult journey to that point. once again, the market focus had been on the shanghai xotit following that dramatic fall we saw yesterday. everybody was watching to see how that market got up today and it certainly was a very rocky ride. we saw the shanghai composite dip in the asian trading session there. but then we saw a recovery in the commodity prices and that helped matters somewhat, pushing up some of the resource related stocks in china or limiting some of stocks over there. we had a new listing coming on to the market. this has been a big concern in terms of market liquidity and that was china everbright securities. coming into the market, it's the best performer today in terms of its ipo for the market. but with a prospect of more competition coming into the equity market, at least in the brokerage space, we saw signi

singapore tots the list. they didn't participate. it cannot be by acdent that the policy of the goverent of singapore is to recruit teachers from the top third of their ranks of high-school graduates going to college. and finland does the same. as a matter of fact in finland the universities accept only 10% to the school of education that they receive. they only accept 10% of them and there are cultural reasons for this that we could discuss but right now as opposed to singapore and finland, what we do is we recruit our teachers from the bottom third rather than the top third of high school graduates. in a recent report indicated that 88% of the tchers in high poverty schools across our nation are in the bottom quartile on basic skills tests for teachers, 88%. surprisingly 11% are in the bottom quaile who were teaching in middle-cla schools, so how can we expect our kids to meet the demands of the 21st century, to achieve the kind of results that we are looking for if our teachers aren't ae to teach what our kids need to know/ this i

now to saijal in singapore. >> thanks, carolin. call it the shanghai effect, but these reports that china's banking regulators tightening rules, but the shanghai composite, interesting enough, that market extending gains up 1.7%. you would think that that would have an effect on the trading stocks. but the a shares were higher where you did see an effect that the banking stocks were listed in hong kong, those stocks were quite a bit lower. the hang seng index posting the biggest weekly drop in two months. you also saw this whole risk aversion play and that feeding into the forex market. the yen surging to a one-month high. that put a lot of pressure on the japanese exporter stocks today. autos in particular are hard hit. this is because we're ending this program with this u.s. cash for clunkers and you saw a lot of weakness for shares like nissan as well as. that market up 0.3%. we saw strong gains for the auto plays there. very different for the -- in terms of that logic. but hyundai motor up 3.1%. kia up 1.7%. remember, though, t

you're not talking about .3% economic growth inountries like cna and singapore and malaysia and indonesia significant higher than th. and the countrie aren't throwing significant amount of fiscal stimulus -- >> what numbers arwe looking at? >> you look at china, it's still apprching 7% growth. >> today? >> yes. and there's significant spding on infrastruure, high-speed trai. trying to get e engine going on the surplus of dollars they acmulated. the question is, will these countries and the chinese ecosystem rn around bin erican goods and eglish goods and keep that syem afloat? >> we haveto leave it there. roben farzad, leaving us on a bright note. thank you,martin. thank you very much. >>> in e former soviet republic of belarus, e severity payi the goods. how mplings became the currency after a bell rugsruck factory. eat them there or take them home. workers at an auto par factory are beinpaid in cheesend milk. others are paying eir ople with caed goods, onions, fabrics d rugs. >>> and oneore nte from europe tonight. officials scotland saythey are considing an early release on compassnate

one problem they run into is having them in singapore, they don't give much thought to what to do with them when they come back. these guys know that. they look around, there is a chapter in the book of the boundaryless career. these are people who have no attachment to any particular institution. their attachment is to their skill. that and their attachment to their occupational group, all the engineers around the world, they are all members of associations, they are all helping each other out, whether they are companies or not. >> the efficiency of the corporate sector, people do not have any kind of loyalty to their companies, they are ready to jump ship at any time. >> you need an industrial psychologist to confirm that. a person in a new job, to do that job well and enhance his career and reputation, might well work harder and better and more efficiently than a guy who has been there for 25 years. >> thank you. >> two quick questions. does this address blacks at all? afro-american mobility in corporate america? i haven't read this at all. secondly, how did you choose these relos b

overseas this morning, christine tan is in singapore. let's go to london first where for the second day in a row we have ross westgate. we are not messing around. >> star power? wow, blatant attempt at ratings. amazing. >> why are you here? we were wondering, ross. we've missed you. >> we have a dip in our female demos? >> well, you know win just thought i'd do the week for you guys and see how you're hanging out there, you know? >> it's ow treat. >> sort of check in. what's that? >> it's our treat, ross, our privilege to have you on during the show. >> that's very -- >> enough teasing back and forth. >> that's very sweet. i know that's not true, but that's very sweet. >> you have a cold, don't you? >> i do have a cold. i apologize for the slightly muffled tone of my voice. but we're not muscled on the stocks today, becky. european stock markets not far away from the session highs. mixed data here, 0.51% up on the session. cpi didn't drop as expected. the about an of england thinks it's going to drop more than 1% potentially. didn't come

overseas, christine tan in singapore. first we'll go to london and check in with the always dapp p ross westgate. >> global equities currently off at 64 points. down near the session lows. to recap, 1.75%. dax, 2% and for the french market as well. at no surprise when you look at the sectors does it appear that resources also and then banks as well. there's talk that china's trying to renegotiate some of the iron ore contracts. bhp bulletin and rio tinto saying they do not see a contract at establishing industry-wide price. the sector is down, that is the one that most embodies what is going on with risk appetite. a day of risk appetite, the market is weaker. u.k. banks lower today. we've got barclays down 3% at the moment. reports they're attempting to recruit five jpmorgan investment bankers with a bonus package worth 30 million pounds. the rest of europe are talking about cracking down on the bonus culture. it appears it's very necessary to implement if you're going to hire the right staff. two ways of looking at this

now over to singapore for a wrap on the asian market. >> hi, stephane. really on the back of better than expected economic data, the u.s. jobs report. over in japan, the machinery orders. that was up for the first time in four months. better than expected, even though the forecast remains fairly weak, we did see a rally on the machinery stocks. taking a look at the exports, pretty strong gains today and holding very resilient. we saw the dollar-yen raise on friday. falling back a little today. didn't have too much impact on the exporter stocks. mitsubishi chemical reports it may buy mitsubishi rayon. we saw reports up 20% on that. the kospi was pretty much flat today. the foreign adventure binvestoro this for 19 consecutive quarters. a 3% fall. now over to bertha in the u.s. >> this week investors are basically going to focus on the consumer and the fed. we're going to get retail sales data later in the week and hear from macy's and walmart and other retail giants and the fed two-dave policy meeting which starts tomorrow, wrapping up wednesday afternoon.

now over to adam in singapore. >> thank you, patricia. it was a choppy trading session here in asia. these markets getting a boost from some of the commodity sent rick stocks following the dramatic rally. the oil stocks in south korea were pushed into the green. the oil stocks being in primary focus, the automakers in japan declined into the red today on the trading session, maybe due in part to the sales numbers that came out in the u.s. that indicated that all japanese automakers posted declines, but toyota's numbers beat expectations in terms of the first quarter and the company hiking its forecast for the fiscal year. different picture, though, for the south korean automakers. all of them posting substantial gains yet again today. they were the only asia automakers to post gains in the month of july in terms of sales. hyundai motor with the biggest gains up nearly 12% on the month of july. on that note, back to the u.s. bertha, good morning. >> good morning, adam. here in the u.s., we have a couple of key data points on tap. we'll get

different countries, has a very similar standard and it's singapore, it's hong kong, it's taiwan.i mean, you can go down. it's a very robust set of standards. so we didn't just throw out things, that we didn't think were important. we focused on the essentials of college and work ready and that's really driven the philosophy behind what's in there and why. >> yes? >> first, i want to applaud your effort and your work. i never thought in my lifetime we would be at this point in terms of national standards, so i comment you for that. -- commend you for that. are you also planning on parallel working towards fat assessments, because we do know, as ilene, you said this is just the beginning, with you do foe that instruction drives assessment. so how hopeful are you that the states will adopt the national standards, understanding that they are going to have to then revise their state assessment to match the standard, which is a very expensive proposition, so i'm wondering if -- what is going to be the incentive for them to be able to do this, is the federal government supporting in ter

singapore topped the list, participating in pisa. finland tops it in pisa.nnot be by accident that the policy of the government of singapore is to recruit teachers from the top third of the ranks of high-school graduates going to college. finland does the same. in finland, the university's accept only 10% of the applicants into the school of education that they receive. they only accept &. there are cultural reasons for this that we caniscuss. right now, as opposed to singapore and finland, what we do is we recruit our teachers from the bottom third rather than the top third of high-school graduates. ed trust indicated that 88% of the teachers in highest poverty schools across the nation are in the bottom floor tile on basic skills tests for teachers. 88%. surprisingly, 11% are in the bottom who are teaching in middle-class schools. how can we expect our kids to meet the demands for the twenty-first century, to achieve the kind of results we are looking for? if our teachers aren't able to teach what our kids need to know. this is a critical policy issue. we

but i mean we're talking hong kong, singapore, and the.high-performing countries that outperform the united states on things like these a. we have been very clear that college and career readiness is a key piece of this document. and that work has formed the basis for what we will do in the future. if you have seen those documents, a lot of times we have gotten a lot of comment that they are not specific enough. well, they are not meant to be specific at this particular point. they are the college age what we expect all students to leave high school ready to enter college. and by college we need a credit bearing entry-level course without remediation. career, into career and technical training which as most of you know can be just as rigorous as entry-level freshman courses at the unirsity level. college and career mehdi, that they leave high school ready for that. we've always fully intended, in fact, we will start in earnest in the next couple weeks on building those college and career standards into the k-12 articulated standards. what

checking on dba shares and how they are trading in singapore, down 3.6%. here is a look at gourmet shares. officials are a ware of reports that a hong kong court has ordered the assets of its founder to be frozen. gu they also the matter is not related to the company. he and his wife are under investigation for alleged economic crimes. hong kong securities and futures commission has asked the court to prohibit them from disposing of or trading in the company's shaers. >> the u.s. economy is still shedding jobs and may have done so at a slower rate last month. the unemployment report due out at 8:30 new york time. forecasts are calling for a 275,000 drop. that would be the smallest decline since last august right before the credit markets collapsed. the unemployment rate is expected to hit 9.7%, which would mark a 20-year average high. those stats, though not great, are part of the reason president obama says the u.s. may be some light at the end of the dark reseg tunnel. the president spoke thursday evening at a campaign rally for virginia's democratic can

let's go over to singapore. >> thanks, carolyn. over all, it's a positive picture here in asia. the exception though was japan's nikkei, which hit a ten-month closing high yesterday. slightly in the red today. a couple of bright spots. bank stocks doing well. the largest lender doing well after it it posted its first profit in three quarters. in terms of earnings, panasonic closed 0.1%. but after the market closed, posted a smaller than expected quarterly loss of $540 million. it drastically improved or cut operating loss forecast for the sixth month. reports suggest it could swing into better than expected earnings. we saw good gains in many of the gold stocks. talking about hsbc, that stock up 0.8%. >>> i'll send things over to bertha. >> in the u.s., we're kicking off a very big week with a lot of economic data. the big number is going to be the employment report on friday. today at 10:00 a.m. new york time, we'll get monthly construction spending data. also this morning, we'll hear about the july numbers. ford is expecting to see its first gain in two years thanks to the cas

how is it looking in singapore, a.m. adam? >> the japanese equity markets are pretty weak.the yen strekts versus the u.s. dollar, it all looks fairly positive at this point in time. there's a lot of caution in the markets ahead of this lower house election. investors are not willing to take many positions. the shanghai composite, once again, extremely volatile, dropped as much as 1.7% today. concerns about more liquidity on this market. and earnings, of course, out from several companies, in fact, blue championship, waiting for petrochina today, so it's an overall weaker picture. >> thanks, adam. and a pair of key economic reports are out before the opening bell. second quarter gdp will be released at 8:30 a.m. new york time. still a vast improvement over the 6.5% decline in the first quarter. the price index is expected to rise. richmond fed president jeffrey lacker travels to richmond to talk about the economy. at 5:00 p.m., st. louis front door president james bullard will be at the university of arkansas to talk about the economic outlook. finally on the earnings front,

i'll send you to christine in singapore. >> hey, martin. we didn't get much of a chance here in asia to react from the gdp numbers coming out from germany and france. but you know what? those upbeat economies from france, in terms of financials, technology, consumer related stocks, those did well. in japan, the nikkei 225 edged up 0.8%. we had relief about the u.s. economy and that sent export sensitive shares higher. those gains on wall street helped to propel the hong kong market higher 2.1% pushing it ever so closer to the key 120 level. some investors were concerned. others taking a wait with and say attitude. banks led the gains on optimism of an economic recovery. that's it from asia. carl, let me hand it back to you. >> christine, thank you for that. christine tan joining us from singapore. let's see how the u.s. markets are shaping up this morning. peter canello joins us here on set, as usual, and anthony chan from jpmorgan's private wealth management. antho anthony, let me get your take on the european numbers. martin brought up th

now, let's move to nigel in singapore. >> thanks for that. we had a positive picture here in asia being helped by the positive comments from the fed. hong kong's best performance there fwb hang seng index up 2%. a lot of earnings coming out of the region. cuspy son, wanpoa, reporting a 3% drop in its first half net. 5.8 billion hong kong dollars is where they came in. it still beat forecasts. the main reason for the weakness there, less contribution from its ports as well as their oil operations. now, we just spoke to the managing director of hutchinson group. less than an hour ago, seems to be a lot more optimistic about the second half. and that's because they expect better performance from their 3g business. this is what he had to say. >> i think this year most of our unit will be break even. but however, whether all unit will come out this way, i still have to see. but next year, because if you see our subscriber base build up, every subscriber base build revenue so i am quite positive on that. >> a couple of other interesting comments th

because people still say here that even though hong kong, singapore, south korea, china are growing,hey will not get back to normal growth, 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%, until the u.s., the u.s. consumer, gets back in the stores. >> i will say it, i don't think they have. i don't think some of them have. i think some have. but some of them have not. >> reporter: if that is right, they're destined for a phenomenal backlash. >> i don't know. greed, you know, is a powerful thing in this world and, you know, money feeds greed. i think you haven't got a bad system in england, that i think up to a certain level or beyond a certain levels, shareholders actually have to approve remuneration or packages, you know, to executives. you know, if the -- if the boards, you know, want to put forward certain package, the shareholders, that might be answer. i don't like governmental interference if it can possibly be avoided because, you know, i don't think capitalism should die. or should be dead, because, you know, we can't think of a way as to how to better, you know, government and better manage our financial s

now let's move to adam in singapo singapore. >> thank you very much. it's a split mission down the markets today. a lot of caution in japan, given that we're building up for this, what could be a landmark election on sunday. there was a lot of negative data out of japan, as well. investors pretty much shrugged that off. i have to say the volumes are very, very thin. moving on to the greater china region, net activity in the shanghai market, concerns that bank lending may be slowing down sharply in the month of august compared to july and, of course, the average that we're seeing in the first half of this year. we got numbers out of bank of china yesterday and they said lending is slowing down in the second half. a lot of banking stocks closed down in negative territory as investors are digest ago slew of earnings coming up. just breaking the wires, we could touch on some of them, petrochina reporting its numbers a few minutes ago, first half profit of 5 yuan, versus 54 yuan a year ago. if you look at what cnooc reported just three days ago, it looks al

now let's go over to saijal in singapore. >> thanks, carolin.t was nice to see some green back on the boards here. nice rally for the asian markets. really out to the shanghai markets which surged up 4.5% from two-month lows. volumes are still fairly low and a lot of those gains are due to the resource related stocks like petrochina and sinopec, but still, pretty good gains there. you saw that spillover effect in hong kong. the hang seng index up 1.9%. h shares up 3.5%. i want to talk about icbc, reporting results and beating on q2 net as well as if first half net. the first half net up 279%. 66 billion yuan is where they came in at. of course, benefiting from new loans. we saw new loans up for the first half about 19%. we did see the net interest income drop a bit. icbc saying they are seeing signs of stabilization and they expect a recovery in that interest margin for the second half of the year. as for japan goes, nikkei closing up 1.8% higher. we saw a good rally in a lot of the oil stocks as well as the resource related trading firms there.

now to adam in singapore. >> thank you very much, carolin.we saw the shanghai composite plummet in the afternoon trading session, it took the rest of the asian markets with it into losses across the board here. take a look at the session in north asia. we didn't touch what in the first hour of "worldwide exchange." the nikkei 225 closing do down 0.8%. the topix closing down by 0.7% and kospi closing down in inti 0.3%. we saw fairly weak picture across the board from some of the top names within that space. as the risk aversion hit in the industry, it didn't affect the auto stocks. one of the reasons was -- in fact, we saw gains in that area resilient. this is after know moisturup was upgraded from bullish to neut l neutral. we could see, of course, bullish time for the automakers in japan. but that remain toes be seen. back to the u.s. with bertha. good morning. >> good morning, adam. we have no economic data to speak of today. we will get inventory nebs at 10:30 as far as energy. earnings continue, as well, mostly from retailers today. bj's

they have a very large casino opening in singapore in the first quarter of next year.hat's a property that could do over a billion dollars worth of ebita according to their internal projections. we're taking more of a wait and see attitude on that. but it looks to be a very strong market with only two competitors in the market it. >> sounds like you liked management, that you think management is good. >> they do a very good job of running these very large convention oriented casinos. they've been very adept at dealing with the challenges that have been thrown at them with the balance sheet issues. and it's really a bet on their ability to figure this all out and get to some kind of a new normal and move forward operationally. >> forgive me for not keeping up with the events in las vegas, but i'm curious about something in your notes here. the opening of city center later this year is a challenge. what is city center and what is the challenge? >> city center is a complex of motels owned and developed by mgm in conjunction with dubai world. it's going to add about 7 or 8

singapore banks fall victim to the recession and financial meltdown.s looking into chartered banks in five states. the dates that under receivership by the federal deposit insurance corporation. their deposits and assets will be assumed by other local banks. so far this year, 69 banks have gone under compared to 25 last year and just three and 2007. but the expectation is there will certainly be more. the fdic estimates bank failures could cost the insurance fund $70 billion over the next four years. smack of a growing number of people losing their jobs and their health insurance, free health clinics all around the dutch country are getting slammed. millions and millions of americans are expected to visit one of the nation's free clinics this year. here is the real scary part. just as the need to skyrocket, funding for these free clinics could be on the chopping block. or english or at the latest. that is scary. >> many people use these type of services never dreamed they would be in need of using such services but there aren't a lot of options out the

helping hand, dozens of countries are sending relief supplies to help taiwan, among them israel, singapore. the typhoon dumped dozens of train -- rain. the storm killed estimated 500 people them worst natural disaster the country has seen in more than 50 years. rescue crews are struggling to reach 1,000 people reportedly stranded. this man became disoriented before he was swept away by floodwaters and rescuers helped him. i'm eric shawn, fox news. >> when you hear the phrase, ground breaking scientist you probably don't imagine someone like this. take a look. & don't talk to me ♪ ♪ he believes in the power of guitar and god, and now heis taking over one of our area's most influential employers. we'll meet him next. >>> why college students may have more in common with their parents than they know. research on baby boomers and drinking when we come back. >>> stop all the arguing. it may help keep your children from getting headaches. girls are more likely to report the headaches if their parents respond too their symptoms in ways that the girls find beneficial. >>> college students aren't t

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in asia this morning most of the markets posted modest gains with the exception of singapore's exchange and the futures outlook is for small declines in the major markets. u.s. investors have reasons to smile. the dow topped the 9200 mark for the first time in months. the nasdaq rose 30 and the s&p climbed 15 to close above the 1,000 level for the first time since november. >>> the government's cash for clunkers program helped to boost stock prices because u.s. automakers are recording higher sales as people turn in old cars. however, chrysler says they will no longer match the incentive because it is running out of some models. crude oil prices dropped below $71 a barrel. they are betting the economy is heading in the right direction which would mean a greater demand for fuel. we will have more "living $mart" news in our next half hour. >>> a islamic saudi academy on popes head road. the hearings drew dozens of speakers many say their teachingsing encourage intolerance but students, parents and teachers have maintained that's not true. >>> students went back to class at seven fairfax c

other countries, singapore, india, china, are like that now.so in those cntries, i'm not saying that everybody is going to get 100%, but i am saying that the decision making is proceeding on the basis of knowing that science is where it's at for their countr. and that we were once like that and we're notike that to the extent that i would say we should be now. >> yeah, what do you think about the popula mia or the science programs or tv. you have yourself like the living planet and quantum universe and let's go look for u.f.o.s and noah's art. my nephew just texted me about big foot. what do you think about big foot? don't you think the science channels could do a better job. >> sure. so the question is what about science on television? what about the contrast between on the one hand you've got, i think you are talking about discovery. you have science shows combined with sort of par normal shows. this is because it's a dollar-driven business. judgment has been made that this stuff enttains. haunted house, let's go ghos haunting. then let's lei

pickling over rubber with the commies playing hardball with the producers in malaysia and traders in singaporend pantsing them both. hmm, how old's this text? ambler penned it in 1967, when the chinese are really communists. for 50 years we've been fooled by these chinese capitalists, bumbling economists. four, credit woes. we just got debt out of citigroup and american express shows a dramatic decline in the percentage of deadbeats. that's a change. defaults going down? media don't want to touch that one. boy, we've got to foment something new. reach for citigroup on that data alone. i would say buy, buy, buy. fifth -- cash for clunkers? oh, no, gm announced they have to put more people to work because of it. oh, geez. wait a second, wasn't gm supposed to be a giant government feather-bedding and gold-bricking operation? they're putting people to work? ford's raising production for 2009. must be alan mulally didn't take the government's money. how could ford do that if we borrowed sales in the future? how do we spin that negatively? don't worry, they will. finally, socialized medicine? it dro

most stunning military campaigns, in the weeks afterwards they captured the british fortress of singapore and american held philippines job, leah and its east some mantra hong kong, guilaume and annihilated the eastern united states, great britain, australia and the netherlands. in those weeks, they conquered an umpire that had taken the western colonial powers 400 years to acquire. they captured or killed 500,000 allied soldiers and they now have 150 million new subjects. my book is about a group of men who came from all over the country mostly young men and they flew to plan that delivered unreliable torpedoes against japanese warships. in doing so at midway at guadalcanal they suffered the highest combat losses of any naval air squadron in the history. i always wondered about these men and who they were, how they got there and with the date, what it meant, and with the sacrifice cost their families. and that's the point of this book. torpedo squadron eight was formed in june of 1941. and was assigned to a brand new aircraft carrier, the uss hornet in norfolk virginia. some of you might

we do know the president will visit by singapore on november 14, and 15, attend the asia-pacific economic. ambassador said the trip would boost relations between the u.s. and china. >> to iraq whether our brand new and serious concerns about the iraqi government. the countries foreign minister today said its own security forces may have helped carry out a horrific bombing in baghdad this week are you on wednesday to attackers drove trucks right past security checkpoints and blew themselves up near iraq's foreign and finance ministries. more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more were hurt or did david pepper with the story tonight from baghdad. >> iraq's prime ministers said this week's attacks in baghdad could than an inside job and is warning more powerful explosions to be on the way for the iraqi capital. there is mounting concern over the security that says which allowed the bombings this week. iraq's former prime ministers were the singer to be more powerful attacks in coming days. he believes the government has to admit the problem and deal with it. the most obvious measure i

against delaware, west virginia, new york, new jersey, and we are competing against china, india, singaporeducational advancement. we have to keep up and the good news is we have done a great job of pennsylvania and because the legislature and administration together invested over $3 billion of addition am funding on an annual basis for education. but now the crunch time rolls ruined and the republicans and senate say that no new revenue and we want to cut, cut, cut and we want to cut a billion dollars out of public education. i say that we have to make cuts and we made $2.5 billion in those cuts. we need to protect education and that means that raising reasonable revenues. getting rid of some of our sales tax exemptions as a possibility. there are a number of ways without hurting the public handling we can raise revenue. >> larry: bill, do you get what you pay for in education? the more you spend, do you get better schools, better education, kids? >> no. we need more money. for instance, it is $4,000 per child. however, costs have gone up and costs continue to go up. you can't pay $2,500 f

company to kroerzing international, a business in singapore with direct ties to iran.ow, the fbi will not comment. the factor has been told but cannot confirm that the general electric corporation is under suspicion in the case. so you've got an unconfirmed report of an unconfirmed investigation and you've got an unconfirmed report that ge is under suspicion in your unconfirmed report of your unconfirmed investigation. do you have any facts at all? well, there is a company called corezing, and there are parts called radio frequency modules. however, a ge spokesman told the associated press today that it has never done any business with the corezing company, an cording to the spokesman, ge does not happen to make the kind of radio frequency modules described by o'reilly. so he confirmed no facts about any investigation, no facts about ge being investigated, he got the elemental details about whether ge ever dealt with corazine wrong and didn't bother to check whether the components at issue were made by ge which they are not. he smeared a company he previously threatene

based in singapore and california, sort of a semiconductor infrastructure company. but on the other side a hong kong-based software company, cdc software, down 17%. it priced in the mid range, and it's down under 10 bucks. we'll get some comments from their ceo tomorrow, who's opening -- ringing the opening bell here at the nasdaq. finally i want to point out some earnings for after the bell. california pizza kitchen and leaf wireless. of course california pizza kitchen getting hit by the rest of the restaurant stocks. and also leap, pc -- excuse me, metro pcs had tough earnings and they're get dragged down by that as well right now. let's go to the great santelli in one of my favorite towns of chicago. >> well, thank you, brian. trying to get everything in order. you know, the treasury market certainly isn't robust today but it is hanging out in the upper yend of a 6 1/2-week high in terms of its yield roughly on a closing basis at 3.75. but today has been a wild, fun day. you know, it all started out early when trimtabs, the story written a few days ago, really g