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hello and welcome to the programme. south korea s president yoon suk yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a crush in the capital, seoul, that is now known to have killed 151 people, and injured dozens more. huge crowds of teenagers and young people had jammed into the narrow streets of the itaewon district to celebrate halloween. the area is known for its busy nightlife. earlier, on social media, people had spoken of the streets being so busy that they felt unsafe. our correspondent in seoul, jean mackenzie, has this report and a warning you may find some of the images distressing. young people out to party, having fun, until things suddenly change. oh, my god! by the end of the night, bodies lined the street, some in costume. others were carried into ambulances lifeless and barefoot. the chilling sign of people who have tried to run but not been able to. the crush started in a small alleyway it was so packed, people were stuck, elbow to elbow. th ....
joins those voting against the bill. drama turnsip another page with apple urged to jump ship and change sides. there is a sickness going around. no, it is not what i had over the weekend, which was the flu. really took the market s down today, the big tech shares, but it lifted another portion of the markets. i want to pull up a chart for you guy. you guys. g #btv 4698. it shows small caps, which has been the laggards all throughout the year, now starting to see some life, some of the life fangg out of the stocks. yvonne: a different kind of flu. i am glad your feeling better, betty. some of these stocks that have suffered the most this year doing quite well. safety trade dragging things lower. those demand concerns over the iphone 8, certainly weighing on the whole sector overall. not a good lead up to asia shares this morning. kiwi, we are continuing to see weakness after that surprise in the new zealand election outcome. despite the weakness we have seen, we are s ....
and sees a million dollar plus loss in the last quarter. haidi: janet yellen defending her time in office as the race for the fed narrows to three. fromad: half an hour from house price figures. we look at tier one cities in particular to see how things go there. this exemplifies how the pressure on these homebuilders are lessening at the moment. n with house price growth and 60% year on year. it has come down with a bank to earth. the prices for shanghai and beijing have been more modest. for the latest update on the sauce prices and where the market is going from here. those house prices and where the market is going from here. haidi: president xi jinping reiterating this theme, that housing is for living, not speculative buying. in the lastwatching few days of the 19th party congress for news about this reshuffle of the standing committee and news when it comes to the 10-year of the pboc governor. tenure of the pboc governor. we do have the ecb policy looking for ....
it is past 8:00 a.m. this daybreak australia. we are a few hours from the major market open. betty: it is after 6:00 p.m. sunday evening in new york. what a weekend it has been so far. we caps off friday with capped off friday with some gains in the indexes. you can see the dow jones just ekeing out that game, the nasdaq higher. the s&p also higher as well. numbers, from friday, making people think the fed will not raise interest rates as much or as quickly as some might expect. but we saw this over the weekend, the tragedy in charlottesville, president trump under fire now as we mentioned for his response. we will see if that will affect any type of agenda the white house for the white house. we are listening to news on north korea. haidi: the idea of political discord is in the u.s. and if that will affect the policy agenda, what that means or the fed going forward. have the follow the loser, follow the leaders sentiment. u.s. stocks posted the biggest weekly decl ....
coming to you live from bloomberg s u.s. and asian headquarters. i m betty liu in new york. it is just after 7:00 p.m. shery: just after 7:00 a.m. in hong kong. i m shery ahn. it is great to see you, and exciting week. we do have north korean tensions continuing to rise. top u.s. officials speaking out a nuclear war is not imminent , but also we have america s top general making the rounds in china, south korea, japan. also in the u.s., so much to digest. everything happening in charlottesville, but also the weaker than expected cpi numbers. betty: that s right. there are vigils right now being held as we speak to essentially talk about and also show emotion from that charlottesville tragedy that we saw over the weekend. there are being held all across the country. we will see how much they will affect the agenda this week, or if those headlines are going to fade. that is a live shot right now of the vigil being held at the scene of the attack by the car, the car atta ....