Across the asia pacific beginning in the week with a pbt . E of well break it for you here on bloomberg. Were seeing the aussie dollar lower. Check out whats happening across the board. Youre seeing red arrows at the a. F. X. 200 there. The drops. Gold is advancing among the precious metals. Weve watching some of the tech makers including nintendo. Taiwan opening. Well keep a close watch on the asse rsks t today after that companys opening on friday. Looks like a decline for those markets. Well be watching that very closely. Precious metals they are extending earlier gains. National gas futures declining. We had lackluster earnings numbers and a reminer that the u. S. Markets are closed for a national holiday. Rish the data out of china will be moving and all the tech news that is moving out of japan. Take a look at nintendo shares. Plummeting at the open. This after forecaster surprised the japanese game maker losing the battle with the xbox. And john is right here to explain. Whats g
Is. And the aussie markets as well. We saw the aussie dollar falling earlier. The asx giving up some of its earlier declines. Resource shares active today. Crude has been trading sideways. This is what we see so far. Jakarta is now at half of the trading day. It is a quarter one percent higher insole in seoul. Tochinas Economic Growth slow down in the Fourth Quarter. Lets get more from Stephen Engle who is in beijing. Steve, what have we got here . Economic growth, as you said, slowing in the Fourth Quarter in china to 7. 7 from 7. 8 . The median testament from economists was for 7. 6 . So a deep forecast, albeit by disabled albeit by just a little bit. It is still a yearoveryear figure. Authorities are managing down growth expectations though, trying to whittle down the risks in the Financial System due in part to over leverage. There has been a bit of a cash crunch in this economy as lending has been tightened. Already nine provinces have set lower gdp targets for this year from last
In australia, we see the a six 200 starting the day off with fractionally lower, a bit under. 5305 is your level there. The aussie dollar is weakening at 87 u. S. Cents. Zealand, we are seeing fractional gains, pretty much flat right now. New Zealand Dollar spot is weakening, 82 and a half u. S. Cents. We are also counting down to the open in japan and korea. Now,ss than an hour from futures trading in chicago, it looks like its going to be a fractional gain at the start of the session. The dollar yen is slightly strengthening this morning at 104. 28 yen to the u. S. Dollar. Is being so badly crushed by the playstation and next box from sony and microsoft that nintendo is forecasting a surprise lost. John is here to explain what went wrong. That nintendo is forecasting a surprise my favorite area, gone game consoles. About 240 million u. S. , after forecasting a profit of ¥55 billion. A dramatic shift in that earning story. Shoppers turned out looking for the opposition, sony and xbox
2006. I spent that amount in helena at the Historical Society to work on the cypress hill massacre. Has anybody heard of this massacre . Excellent. It was at that even as a sort of a notorious but obscure 1873 slaughter in which a group of montana who wolf trap first slipped across into canada and held to a dozen indians. But i thought i would use this event and this is why i had gone in the first place, to explain the hardening of the u. S. Canada border ever after, the socalled wild west of the United States and the mild west of canada north and 49th. This is why i was in montana that summer. The problem was i became very bored with the story which is a bad sign in the new project. Adding to my displeasure is the fact i was living in on the glamorous life that is the typical of an academic eating tv dinners and eating Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day and allowing myself only one diet coke in an effort to stretch my grant from the Historical Society as far as i c
Spent so what do we learn about her and spoke of we probably didnt know before . What we will learn is just not on our local paper here in washington, d. C. , she is a global figure. Because of jim crow in washington, d. C. Being the upper Southern City in which he purchased the property at 1318 vermont avenue, a National Park service site to entertain entire world so there are pictures in here of the ambassador as was the indian women fisting from various parts of the world, burnished parliamentary whim came to visit. She was able to end in the world i would have of all marginalized people of color around the world. So you learn that here. Spirit it sounds to me as if the book is partially about d. C. At the times was about her . Especially played a snapshot of washington, d. C. As an upper Southern City. Theres one incident i did not be known about but i know a lot of local washingtonians have a problem with the hospital. She was raised presbyterian but she becomes a methodist and sh