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bloomberg.com. let s check markets in asia pacific. in new zealand, down a quarter of a percent, the new zealand .ollar at $.70 the strength of the kiwi weighing on equities and exports. over to japan, futures trading in chicago, and it is pointing to a much lower open from friday s close, the japanese yen continuing to rise. no trading inket, australia, a public holiday for the queen s birthday. morning,tory this president obama says a massacre at a gay nightclub in florida is an attack on all americans. it is being investigated as an act of terrorism. by a lone 53 wounded gunman in the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. we have yvonne man with the latest on this. asnne: the attack happened 300 people were dancing and drinking. people described chaos and horror with dozens dead and injured as survivors rush to escape. ae assault was followed by three-hour standoff with people trapped inside becoming hostages. teams form thelt ves tosetting off explosio distract the g ....
225 down. i will have more on the market movers shortly. fears are starting to send investors looking for assets overseas. we will get to that story in a few moments. i want to tell you about the killing of 50 people in a gay .ightclub in orlando it has opened another debate about guns and the united states. president obama says the massacre was an attack on all attack of an terrorism as well. we have yvonne man following the story. what are we learning about the killer? the gunmen was omar mateen, a 29-year-old u.s. citizen, born in new york. he did live in florida. those who knew him say he was a bodybuilder, religious person who at one point thought about joining the police. callbi says he made a 911 before the attack on the pulse nightclub. he allegedly made comments to coworkers about links to terrorist groups. the following year, he was again investigated but nothing incriminating was found. he worked as a security guard since 2007 and despite official suspicion ....
systems, bringing it a new chief executive. a month ago, didi received $1 billion investment in apple, now $600 million. investors are waiting on the fed, the boj, the bank of england. taiwana, singapore, and start off their trading week. it is a central bank waiting game this week. a bit ofeing quite trepidation ahead of those key policy meetings. malaysia, singapore, and taiwan joining in the selling. we are still seeing significant weakness from korea, japan, and new zealand. australia closed for the queen s birthday holiday. is leading the losses in the region. now at one-month lows. all of this trepidation has seen a big surge in the, so stocks under pressure, weakness and commodity prices weighing on materials and energy players. out of the 225 stocks on that index, only two are in the black this morning. korea down by 1.5%, and new zealand off by .5%. futures are suggesting weakness from china and hong kong when they open at the bottom of the hour. a big week ....
it has designing masterpieces from other hundred 20 years. it all started with a point left home in lebanon went to america to make history come true. four generations later they continue that tradition. time now for these highfliers to join us on the singapore flyer to tell us how the heritage lives on. welcome to highfliers. he was the fourth generation. you always knew you were going to be in the business. you took the trip you look at the minds you explored all of the different diamonds from an early age. the story being fascinated all the time throughout my improvedears has been tremendously. working, started side-by-side in the uncle, robert. i had the opportunity at that part ofause being the family and the financial situation. and the availability of funds. the royal families and people in the region. it allowed me the process that only to travel with them and learn about that. also to be able to go back to the largest that are available. there was tremend ....
comes out in november with this one as the title. ,thank you for being late finding a job, running the country, and keeping your head in an age of s acceleration. tom friedman: the title comes from meeting people at breakfast in washington dc over the past couple of years, and then 15 or 20 minutes late, they say, i am sorry, it was the traffic. one day, i spontaneouslsaid to them, actually, charlie, thank you for being late. because you were late, i was eavesdropping on their conversation. onnected to ideas that was two ideas that i was struggling with, thank you for being late. people start to get into it and they say, you are welcome. what i was sort of doing was giving myself and them permission to be late, to slow down, sit back and reflect. charlie: this is a brief against speed. tom friedman: it really is, but in an age of acceleration. the core theme of the book is that we are in the middle of three nonlinear accelerations, all at the same time, the three larg ....