The shanghai composite is up close to 1 right now. See more ofnuing to a rally in hong kong here, despite very cold weather here in hong kong. We are getting trade numbers, early from this morning. The trade balance is back to black. Dont be fold. Fooledexports and just dont be fooled. We saw exports falling. What a loss. Exports have really grown. Helped in yen december. Most are saying this trade balance has narrowed annually, compared to the record we have seen. It has fallen about 80 . Again, people are saying Commodity Prices are slumping more than expected, which is why we are saying this narrow. In the past, year to date, if you continue to see it here, i have strength of 1 , a reversal to call for the weaker yen. Doj to move. The we have heard from harry corona that that might actually happened. I want to end on gold. That is the new safe haven. It is going to stay up 3. 7 today. We are going to break that 1100 mark. People are looking at this once again. Oil is front and center. It is fluctuating under 30 per barrel. 32 per barrel. Record bearish bets. Heidi is here with me now. Is still down by, what, 12, 13 . Heidi more than 10 . This hasnt really changed, just in the last two days, and i eeing we are really s investors trying to work this outcome a lot of fundamentals havent changed much. Number of analysts are saying that when it fell under 30 per barrell, it wasnt expected. It was bigger than their wildest expectations. Have, of course, on the opec side, ecuador and venezuela proposing out what quotas. Rishaad not for the first time. Haidi not much success. Rishaad but with all this movement in place, is it enough to really get around this record bearishness weve been seeing . Haidi you would imagine not. The fundamentals remain unchanged. Oil rigs came down a bit in the u. S. Last friday. The world is Still Producing 2 million more barrels of oil than it requires. We have the iran situation. 5000 more barrels are coming online. Create Downside Pressure when it comes to oversupply. Bank of montreals studio says montreals ceo says that this downward trend could continue. The market needs to remain cautious. The internal entergy agency says the world could drown in oversupply. Rishaad may be overstating that. [laughter] shanghai index has doubled about 17 so far. Ubs says the flight is not yet over. A ubs Economic Advisor says the index will drop to around 2500. Thats another 14 percent from current levels. An eventual rebound will not be vigorous. Japans biggest bank is putting more focus on the trade finance business. There recently hired for bankers frommpetitors, including hsbc. Wants to be one of the top five for International Commerce by 2020. The chipmaking business is still up in the air after the nikkei report says it thinks about selling the memory chip business to raise capital. The company has no choice but to move forward with the spinoff. Toshiba has announced it has yet to make a decision. 4 . Es fell takata has shares tumbling the most in three months, because of another death now linked to the faulty airbags. The recall will include millions more cars. We have Bloomberg News auto goodell joining us now. It seems like the pain is only intensifying for takata. Greg this latest of element involves millions more vehicles being recalled, involving takata your back and fighters. This death that occurred in december in the 2006 ford ranger will continue contributing to this perception that every time there is an accident in the katacle in which ta airbags are installed, there is anrisk, and unacceptable unacceptable risk of serious injury or death. This is going to lead to millions more recalls. What you are seeing here is more drastic reaction to an alltoo lopment involving a desk. Enthnnessee death a t death in the u. S. Alone. 5 million more airbags will be recalled from several manufacturers. Rishaad also, making headlines, in japan, takatas future. What can you tell us . Greg there were a couple of reports over the weekend, locally and in japan, involving another airbag inflator maker. Takata is in talks about supplying airbag inflators, together, going forward. And ave already seen trw couple of other airbag makers step in to make sure that airbag replacements are made to a satisfactory speed to get these recalls they can care of. Taken care of. Takata says nothing has been decided yet. Daicel confirms that these investigations are going on. Takata has been going to automakers, asking for assistance to weather the crisis. They again said no decision has been made there. This is a significant storage watch because they will not be able to shoulder this on their own. Rishaad how does this impact a car makers meeting later this weekend . Week, then . Greg this is an exclusive story. The meeting that has been called with honda and nissan, they have been invited. The amount of detail we have around what will be discussed is limited to just the fact that it takatasolve tr future business plans. Will see whether that plan does, in fact, involve going to the carmakers and asking for support. Number of vehicles is so massive that takata need substantial help from the carmakers to get involved in the spirit we were talking about involved in this. We were talking about 19 million vehicles before this. Number that takata cannot fund by itself. Angie survival is in question here. What else are we looking at . Asiae if you break down sector by sector, oil is the big winner. We are floating around the 32 per barrel mark right now. Right now, the basic materials are up 2 . Look at the leaders here on the regional benchmark, up about 2 right now. We continue to see this rally right now continue. Petro china seen a crack there, rising 5 on both of those there,hina sea right rising 5 on both of those. The China Morning post says they might be scaling back on expansion plans, citing labor disputes. Sources China Resources is the biggest loser here. Cuts tok, it was the underperform for macquarie. After the sales data came out last week, it was mixing estimates. Fall at 5. 8 . E to japan tobacco, this one is a gain on the nikkei. They will be raising prices of certain brands of cigarettes. Pack, potential rates on april 1. Theyre rising 5. 6 . Biadud coming up later, is in the race baidu is in the race to make a self driving car. And, the new decision from the Federal Reserve and the bank of japan. Asia edge back in two minutes. These of the headlines from around the world. 20 people have died in the blizzards that have paralyzed the eastern united states. Many saw three feet of snow, and central park in new york at its biggest 44 hour snowfall on record. Canceledway shows were for the First Time SinceSuperstorm Sandy in 2012. East coast airports resume normal Service Today after more than 12,000 flights were canceled over the weekend d. A large chunk of metal that washed up on a beach in thailand could be from a plane. Isre is speculation that it linked to the missing malaysia whiches plane, disappeared over a year ago while flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. It is suspected to a crash in the southern indian ocean. The piece of the plane has been identified as coming from the plane. Economyttled japanese minister has apologized for what he calls causing trouble. Amati says an investigation is underway a mari says an investigation is underway and apologize for causing trouble. He took more than 100,000 from a Construction Company over a. Of three years over a period of three years. 150 bureaus around the world, from the bloomberg used for Bloomberg News room, i am shery an. Rishaad we are nearing a trough in market prices. Angie the u. S. Dollar is nearing its peak, then. The 300 40 billion overseas would be good for the u. S. , right . If the dollar peaked . Yes. It has been up a lot of the last 18 months. We think the dollars probably in the process of making its peak. Commodities are in the process of making a drop. Rishaad they play off each other. Bob exactly. Tell us about what is rishaad tell us about what is going on market wise, how the sky is falling in. Isnt falling income is it falling in, is it . Wil takee chair the story of the chicken who felt a rock fall on its head and thought the sky was falling. They are worried about the collapse of oil prices. The junk bond markets. We think, at least in china, a huge devaluation is not ahead. I know the markets worry about at least a voluntary rishaad so we have been told off for using that, havent we . Bob that is what people think. There are some sort of large depreciation ahead, either voluntary, because china is trying to support its beleaguered industrial sector, or involuntary, because they lost control of currency in the financial market. We dont think that is right. China announced in december it was going to peg to a currency basket rather than the dollar. The dollar will rise against the yuan. But, the yuan has been stable against the basket for months. Areaadangie a lot of people questioning how much more we can see that intervention. Will we eventually see a much lower level for the yuan . Yuan versus the dollar will weaken. 67 over the next two months. Few months. If the market expects it, there will be a lot more currency, a capital flight to get out of china. I think they will keep their controls restrict. Controls r strict. Rishaad everybody wants stability. What is the method to iron a o iron it out . On it bob we will probably see another relapse, maybe sometime in february. If you look back at inflation, ingested oil prices, adjusted prices, there have been three times since 1861 that oil prices have dropped as much, and thats it. Angie we are wondering whether consumer gason prices has increased spending. Bob we are seeing it in some ways, but overall, not the boost we wouldve expected. We wouldve thought we wouldve seen 3. 5 growth in consumer spending. I think consumers are cautious. The financial crisis was so severe. Neighbors lost their jobs, their homes. I think that has made everybody really cautious. Lending is going up. Gonsumers are keeping spendin within the increase and income. Angie hang out with us. Coming up, twitter. Twitter is looking to spread its wings with the help of new management. Angie flying the coop. Edgeird, when asia returns. Angie we are hearing there will be a new shakeup in the senior ranks of twitter. Got juliet with all the details. We are tweeting away here. What are the details . Juliet yesterday, for Key Executives the head of , fine,ng, engineering and jim webb has been interviewing for a number of jobs for weeks. They have been selling off stock, knowing they are on the way out. First major exit we have seen since jack dorsey resume to the reins of twitter last year in october. Also topic there is going to be too newborn levers. If it dide shocking not reflect the diversity of the board. It should be at least one woman and a person of color. Executives really need to have paid for their stock. As we know, twitter share prices have been absolutely hammered over the last 12 months. Speculationt of that the executives have not been doing their part to turn their fortunes around. The twitter share price is down 55. 5 . Stanton is also leaving in the face of other executives. Angie any word on its own social media platform . Uliet weve been watching for tweets from jack. Nothing so far. If you look at rich greenfield, he had quite an interesting tweet. He is saying, look, more than six to percent of the executives 60 of the executives are gone. There are rumors that stash could be joining the board. He is not. At this point, change can only be good. A Youtube Commenters saying, twitter has lost three the stock is down as growth, is in freefall it is in freefall. Another executive is suggesting we should not worry too much about who is at the helm of twitter. It can run itself. Dont over monetize it and let users do what they want. That is or is giving jack dorsey a little advice about how to run the company. Im sure we will hear more. There was a little bit of a spike in the twitter share price on friday, but at least for executives are on the way out and some board members, including maybe a high file media personality profile media personality. Angie i will take to twitter and let you know. Think you so much. Rishaad green everywhere right now, looking like a 1. 5 gain. There is in sydney, kicking it out itself, just taking a look here, and yes, green. About 1. 5 . We are extending these gains that we have had out there in the last few days. We have had bets that the central bankers in europe and in japan are increasing stimulus packages. It is a very cold one here in hong kong. 1. 9 up on the hang seng. The japanese will reopen right after this very short break. Angie youre watching asia edge. Engine stocks extending a global rally. Chinese fuel and coal producers are gaining after beijing pledges cuts to overcapacity. More stimulus may be in the pipeline. Oil has been fluctuating today but still trading above 32 a barrel. Crude still down with an 13 this year on concern over brimming u. S. Stockpiles in the return to exporting. The longterm downtrend remains in place. A cut a has fallen to sevenyear lows after u. S. Regulators said millions more vehicles would have to be recalled after a 10th debt linked to faulty air backs. There already called 19 million vehicles. Honda has been invited to a meeting friday in which to caught a will address its future business plan. Takata will address the future business plan. Vonne all across, green. Shanghai up. Continuing to see gains of 1. 9 . Still a leading most of the gains in the regional benchmark. We continue to see a lot of hedge went in the china market. The slump in chinese stocks is said to be not over. The rebound after that slump they say is to be mutated. Muted. We havent reached a bottom yet. It was closed at one point. Now we are seeing a bit of a loss as we head into that meeting later on this week and balanceee that trade back to back but after we saw exports and imports fall much more than expected. Take a look at the movers in japan asia, in particular. Product in hong kong rising 2. 5 . There have been concerns over the european luxury market in terms of the longterm aspects as we continue to see chinas economy slow down. Thea note out saying outlook is not as pessimistic as some might expect. The chinese are surprisingly positive after the big stockmarket drop last summer. This reassuring the recent volatility we have seen and it shouldnt be a big impediment on shopping. We may see chinese chapters heading to europe to buy those product that. This is a fiveday day game, the longest winning streak weve seen. In terms of the shopping stocks, looks like people are shopping today. You. thank while the market rebound has been the main topic of discussion, after a second day of gains in asia, we asked michelle if Equity Investors can breathe a sigh of relief. Volatility will we see volatility peak. We see the markets coming back i gohere we see the hsc back to 9000 and the next couple weeks or months. Onre staying focused longterm tailwinds we think are strong. Angie but not everyone agrees. Says they will remain bearish for the rest of the year. Marketscoach could see a rebound. You had the doj coming out to say they couldnt do any policy adjustments as necessary. Mario draghi came out last week. Later this week, you have the fomc coming through. In the shortterm, we could see some rebound but longer term, we are quite bearish on equities. Capital dynamics ceo says china is not what investors should be worried about. Earlier, he said the real danger lurks in the u. S. I am more concerned with the shanghai stock market in terms on the global economy. The shanghai composite could drop back to 2002 and i think the World Economy would still be where it is. What worries me the most is the and theres nothing the Federal Reserve can do. Dropsu imagine if the ny 20 , what is the Federal Reserve going to do . Rishaad what can they do . They cant do anything. Angie that was the word from asia. Rishaad call minors and steelmakers are rising. Largescale cuts. Its all about overcapacity. Withhave to get to grips it. The question is how they do it. Misses some of the expected supplyside reforms that will be painful in the short term but good for these industries. Coal and Steel Production facing overcapacity. Council meeting friday. The government website published the results of their findings and orders. Steel production will be further cut by 150 million tons. No timeframe for that but they are saying they will strictly control still capacity increases and halt new coal mine approvals. This is having a positive reaction to the stocks. Without 8. 2 . Y, capacity reduction targets are not aggressive but still helps rebalance the steel market basically because of the overcapacity, the utilization rate has fallen. China coalt guard, and energy have been battered down. Tickets he largescale reduction in output. Good things for the shortterm but there will be some pain here. It doesnt sit well with the preferred goal and aim of job creation. Also showing some sign of momentum slowed down. There are some headwinds given the slowing pace of the economy and these Old Industries as they cut the overcapacity and jobs. Theres a statistic saying the gdp to grow 6. 7 to create those 10 million jobs a year. Its expected to grow 6. 5 so there will be some problems. If they cut some jobs in the older industries, which they probably need to do, if they cut the industriesn that have overcapacity, severe overcapacity like steelmaking and coal, that would cut about 3 million jobs so they need to find these jobs elsewhere. Much. D thank you very lets take a look at stories making headlines. With china emerging as a big winner driven by down falling demand. The falling price of oil and other commodities helping that heating cost come pushing down cost, pushing down prices. Saudi arabia says it is considering all options when it comes to potential ipo. Saudi arabia has chosen to keep production high, abandoning output limits to defend market share ahead of price. Angie singapores offices are increasingly sitting empty. Foreign banks continue to cut staff. With new supply sucked to come in the market. I guess its good if youre looking for lower rent but how bad is this problem for singapore . Its getting worse. Its still too early. Havegn banks in singapore 550 thousand square feet of excess capacity. Despite that, we can expect more capacity to be added this year. A 38 Story Bui