sydni is having stabilization and commodity prices.he pickup on oil is the extended in the asian session. it is helping these oil companies. we also have nice gains in southeast asia. the shanghai is doing its own 1%.g by -- down by 9/10 of some of the big movers -- there is one big mover, given this is the last trading day or programming from us here in asia. it is fitting to talk about one of the biggest moves, one of these golden stocks. it is up about 60% year to date. it resumed trading after being in a halt since december 8. it surged as much as 65% before closing up by 54%. stakeompany offloading a in its property for $2.8 million. the money will be reinvested in properties in hong kong. the chairman saying if there is any property available in hong kong he would jump into it. auto --saw china brand grand auto up again. it bought the biggest a stake in a bmw distributor in the chinese market. we also saw losses for jim dale -- gemdale. profit down by 8%. we saw a little bit of movement in the fx face. -- space. this is offshore

a sydni teen had been being watch for more than a year.ed texted messages to communicate with others about becoming a martyr. officials say u.s. attack helicopters could soon be flying over ramadi to help iraqi forces in the long-running battle to retake the key city. secretary asked carter is also sending additional advisors to assist iraqi soldiers making a final push into the city center. in as argentina's president today, he is a former mayor of when osiris and comes ormer mayor of buenos aires. they seeing is lifting the smog alert imposed two days ago. schools have reopened and roads are open to all traffic after a cold front blew away some of the worst of the pollution. meanwhile, china is getting a $300 million loan from the asian development bank to help clean up its smog-choked capital. at bloombergk news. thank you so much. if you take a look at oil prices, they are down for a fifth straight day. in 10s their it's a drop days. it has been a steady grind lower. today, it fell to as low as 36.52 a barrel. will this cause a wave of

there are two hours to go in sydni. ney.ave -- in syd we have 2 hours to go.e story of the year. it is the last day of the year as well. this is bloomberg "surveillance" from our headquarters in new york. we are keeping an eye on the whole year as it begins to celebrate. i am michael mckee. erik schatzker, and vonnie quinn. i said we were wearing funny hats, i lied. have 18 hours to go. we can come up with something. we are going to go to vonnie quinn for bloomberg first word news. a 10th suspect in the paris attacks has been arrested. he is a belgian national born in 1993. 10 cell phones were seized during the search and are being examined. germans reject nationalists who have hate in their heart for refugees. in a new year's speech, the chancellor said coping with the crisis will take time, effort, and money. crisis toto turn the the nation's advantage. company and people's link to the nonian nuclear program -- word on who we targeted or what the sanctions will involved. the un security council has barred iran from any missile capable of delivering nuclear w

>> sydni. governor o'malley: how old are you, sydney?iscernible] governor o'malley: do want to do a picture? >> ready, 1, 2, 3. thank you so much. governor o'malley: hopefully one day you run. one day, maybe? the one thing wrong with politics, not enough of good people try. >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] >> the maryland state arts council. me i didery angry with not say hello the last time we came to see you. governor o'malley: tell me your name again? >> dorothy. governor o'malley: good to meet you, dorothy. >> keep up the good fight. governor o'malley: thank you. i will. you, too. >> you look like a young entrepreneur. >> [indiscernible] >> hi, sara. what are your restaurants called? >> [indiscernible] cool.or o'malley: i will have to come by. [indiscernible] good to meetlley: you, too. thanks for coming out today. good to see you. thanks for being there for me last night. god bless you. we've got to keep going. >> [indiscernible] governor o'malley: oh, good. [laughter] >> yeah, that's clever. i think she got that from a coal sk

he says you have to go around, you can't come in, this way. , justl take a look back an hour ago, sydni with very large fireworks over the harbor. you can see the iconic bridge and opera building. david: i want to wish you a happy new year. brendan: happy new year to you, it has been a fun week. david: i can't get too much of this. brendan: stick on television, you will get more, all day. ♪ >> about 30 minutes from the opening bell. what i think you looking at is auckland, new zealand. brendan: we will be celebrating new year's in new york city a little later today. the houre with us for gershon distenfeld. welcome. gershon: the name changed happened earlier this year. erik: here's vonnie quinn with the first word. vonnie: cities in europe are taking no chances on new year's eve. according to the telegraph newspaper come all 2000 london police officers will be on duty. at the paper says an intelligence agency warned that islamic terrorists may be planning attacks in the city. u.s. has vowed to impose sanctions on those involved with iran's missile programs. no word on who will be target

. >> sydni, last question.y: is there any source of enduring advantage of you always have this red queen's race, is there something that the military had institutionally and culturally that china and russia can't duplicate the way they duplicate the technology. bob: i am not willing to say that we will have an enduring cap advantage in the competition although we do have an advantage as we start. everybody says there is this huge brain drain. actually, after wars a lot of people who join and learned that they had this mission, a lot of those people say i don't want to stay around in a peacetime military. there are leaving because of that as people who are saying i'm surrounded by a bunch of idiots and i am the smartest guy in the room. all they have to do is work with the people in the field every day and you realize that you will come up with solutions. in the early days of the cold war, the submarines would go after 90 days. what could you do? they took big banks of candy and the candy said individual little

. >> we will be live in tokyo, sydni, mumbai. a tale of woe from toshiba.with record thousands of jobs being cut. assets will be sold. for the economy with flexible and forceful policies and help for homebuyers. hard to swallow. sees a big fall in tokyo. trading in indonesia is getting underway. david: look at your screen's is happening in the markets right now. jakarta is just opening up. the action is not in the equity markets.

sydni stocks are pretty stable following those comments. -- a sitting up by 2/10 quarter of 1%.s go through one of the movers today. we are keeping our eye on apple suppliers. apple overnight, analysts saying that the p demand -- peak demand period may be over. morgan stanley and jp morgan are looking for a decline also. interestingly, we are seeing a bit of a mixed picture. acrossally strong gains apple suppliers. this is an account of a new story that has come out, that apple has reportedly opened a production lab in northern taiwan, focusing on developing new and more advanced display technologies. this is according to people with knowledge of the facility. it has atng is in -- least 50 engineers and other workers, and they are creating new screens for iphones, ipads, and other devices. that is counterbalancing the decline in demand story overnight. also some gains, and the other major manufacturer in taiwan. back to you for now. yvonne: thank you. qantas shares looking like this today, up about 10%. forecast healthy lift for first half profits, let's go closer with angus whi