rick: a dallas man celebrating his 100th birthday by pounding the pavement dave rolled or two veteran former pilot and a runner over the past 50 years and on tuesday he turns 100 yen his family and marking the occasion by writing a combined 100 miles and he is showing no signs of slowing down. eight to be dead rigid and not to be up and active to enjoy my family. we are amazed and we shouldn t me because he lives every day the same so why not 100 or 110?.
weakening yen. the nikkei ended up by almost 2% by the end of the session largely because of the yen, hovering around that triple digit mark today was trading around 99 yen to the u.s. dollar. many investors believe it will break that 100 yen threshold soon. this was good for japanese exporters. the commodity sector did rebound which helped the main aussie bench up by 0.7%. the hang seng was in negative territory for most of the territory but eked out a positive gain by the end of the session. the shanghai composite shows it was down by 0.1%. the insurance sector was one of the main drags. largely because of the earthquake in sichuan with insurance companies declining today. on the flip side, construction related companies saw some gains with the expectations of major rebuilding. but also we saw investor caution today. a day ahead of hsbc s flash pmi
sake. and by the year 2015 the national sales tax would jump to 10% or i would have to pay 100 yen for that same bottle of sake. that is double what i paid today. as you can imagine, this is highly unpopular. to be honest, says this taxpayer, i don t want the sales tax but i guess i don t have a choice. we can see what s happening in greece and italy says toshiko misu. we re taking the debt talk more seriously and ready to accept this. japan s government fears its own ballooning debt will follow the same trend and be out of control. japan s debt is far higher than greece, but less risky because it s domestically owned. japan still has the highest national debt in the developed world with the fastest aging population on the planet.
tepco bows out as the world s largest energy company pays a record price. and they double on their market debut. ceo jeff weiner tells us there s no trouble in the media sector. we begin with the former imf managing director, strauss-kahn, who s expected to walk out of jail in a few hours from now, but he will not be a free man. the judge granted him bail on thursday but with strict conditions and a warning. and even as the judge was approving the bail request, grand jury indicted strauss-kahn on multiple felony charges including attempted rape. he s accused of attacking a maid last saturday at a manhattan hotel. he denies it. he has to post a $1 million in cash and a $5 million bond. he also has to agree to a 24-hour confinement and an armed guard at the door. he has to surrender his travel documents and agree to wear a monitoring device. the judge said, quote, we don t want his money. we just want to make sure that he comes back. so the top job of the imf has been v
lot of statuses like unspecified, someone seeking information about this person. when you click you get more information about that person, another picture, a description what they look like. the good thing is that there are some examples of people who have been found and people who have said they ve survived, i know where they are. so that is some hope at least for the people of japan at this point. a couple of ireports we just got in. this one from jessica takawai showing us what some of the stores look like. this is a convenience store called the 100 yen store in tokyo. you see on some shelves nothing at all. look at this one here. no bread. she said many stores don t have water. this is going to be a major concern over the next few days. and i m going to end it here. when i first looked at this, i had to look twice because this looks like the coast of japan, doesn t it? you see the boats destroyed in the harbor. this is actually california. it s coming from crescent city, californi