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david: i don t consider myself a journalist. and nobody elswod consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? james, thank you very much for doing this. james: honored to be here. david: you have an accent compared to me. maybe in australia, you don t have an accent. you have an australian accent. i assume that is because you grew up in australia. james: it is. and it is also a measure of me being tone deaf that after 30 years, i have not been able to get rid of it. david: i am an only child so i don t know what it is li tbe in a big family. you were in a family of 11 children? james: 12, originally. dad:2 children. what was that like? james: two passed away, so we have 10. it was actually very noisy. you, i think, learned a great deal of empathy for others because you are in an environment where something was ....
seven in the morning in singapore, big night in london and two major internet security companies, american company semantic and russian based company say they are looking at codes that make a net north korea to the attacks. they have similarities to programmes used in pyongyang. so far there has been no response from north korea and experts cautioned there is no hard evidence. cyber attacks have struck around the world. the most far reaching of cyber crimes ever committed. as government organisations and businesses will light clean up after being caught out, the attention turns to the people responsible. the military regime in pyongyang is assessed to have over a thousand computer experts working on cyber activities of act by thousands of support staff. a california based expert are looking in the clues that may connect the attacks with progress previously attributed to north korea, including code in an earlier version of ransomware. john kelly told media that a cyber ....
it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington where it seems every hour, president donald trump is in more and trouble. this time it s the sacking of the fbi directorjames comey that s causing the trouble. the new york times is reporting that president trump asked mr comey to drop the bureau s investigation into alleged ties between russia and michael flynn, the national security advisor at the time. that s been denied by the white house, but there s no doubt just how serious this allegation is. one senior democrat said other senators were shaken and called for a special prosecutor to be appointed. well, this stunning and breathtaking revelation that the president is accused of reaching out directly to the head of the fbi did stop an investigation of general flynn under the circumstances raises serious questions about obstruction of justice. it is a fundamental question here. is anybody, including the president of the united states, above the law? can ....
say they were hit by the firms thirdack as on the expectation of more. we will be in beijing and china. in tokyo to see why japan s biggest banks are forecasting a fourth straight dip in profits. washingtonwill be in as the of work continues over president trump s dealings with russia and james comey. this is daybreak asia. i am betty liu. betty liu in new york, where it is just after 7:00 p.m. yvonne: it happens to everyone. it is just after 7:00 a.m. in hong kong. i am shery ahn on tuesday. i have got to say, it is a live it is a live day. nothing, to be honest, as as whatg happened in the u.s.. the s&p 500 is close enough 2400. betty: maybe because there was also a lack of economic news or any really comments in the fed that investors went back to focusing on some old standbys, which, for instance, oil prices. oil prices routed. and energy shares zooming higher. we also saw it on the nasdaq as well as the dow, closing up. it sets us up very nicely for gains in as ....
say. uncertainty does roll markets. julie: exactly. it is only now this uncertainty is percolating to the markets with finally the controversy in seeming toseeing t affect perception. average is pretty much at the lows of the session at the moment. for the dow as well as for the nasdaq, is the biggest selloff in a couple months. for the s&p 500, the worst since september. we talked so much about the lack of big movements we have seen thus far this year. here is the start of the year. we have only had two up 1% days. now, two down 1% days. you have to go all the way back to september to see as large a decline in the s&p 500 on a percentage basis as we are seeing today. the worst performing group today is the financials, the banks in particular, have been really taking a hit. that is as we see the down movement in stock. people are buying treasuries. that means the 10 year yield is down 8 basis points, its biggest drop in two months as well. we have jpmorgan and bank of a ....