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Searching for more profit. Google disappointed the market with

Searching for more profit. Google disappointed the market with its

latest financial earnings. And we will find out about a surprising

study that says a good boss might be bad for your health.

Good morning. It's Friday. Glad you can join us for Asia Business

Report. Earnings of Google disappointed the market despite a

20% increase in profits in the first three months of the year. Revenues

of the world's discount any rising to over $20 billion, about to not

stop shares tumbling more than 4% in late trade. A North American

correspondent gave us this update after the hearing. The thing that

seems to emerge is this push and pull between advertising revenue

growth on the one hand, and what the company is spending on things that

aren't related to ads, essentially. Become P's chief financial officer

spilt out that the company would continue to spend money on its other

bets. It would try to spend money smartly, a reference to try to calm

investors it would continue to invest in new advertising related

spending. But it also said it would continue to focus on things like

fibre. This is where it is trying to build the infrastructure that people

need to try to get access to Internet connection. This is

something that is very capital intensive and has been reflected in

the numbers. If you look at other bets, part of their business that

includes fibre, revenue was $116 million, but the operating loss for

the whole other bets at of the business was $802 million, and that

is why you are seeing investors on Wall Street worried. Is the weak

computer market affecting its bottom line? It seems to be a company like

Intel which is being affected by changing consumer habits. On the one

hand, they are trying to deal with a market where people are moving away

from personal computers, but if you do deeper into the results, although

they have reported a loss, a profit loss, things like sales of its

surface tablet did remarkably well. That revenue was up higher. How is

this company doing in terms of making progress in its cloud

computing business? It seems to be singing some strength there. That

may offer some cheer for investors, but not right now because stock is

trading well since the numbers came out. There is more disappointment

when it comes to earnings in corporate America. You also have the

earnings of Gladstone plummeting 77% to $371 million. It has been put

down to the rollercoaster ride that he had a bull market in the first

three months of the year. -- that has been put down to the

rollercoaster ride that he D. Revenue expectations were also

missed the second quarter in a coffee chain. It came slightly under

what was forecast at $49 billion. There was solid sales in Asia

helping to offset slower growth in Europe, but still missing market

expectations. Iraq Obama is enduring and high on his agenda is a free

trade agreement between the two sides called the TTI P -- Barack

Obama. He is expected to pass a similar deal with Asia before he

leaves office. But it is not a popular topic ahead of the

presidential elections. If there is one thing these

presidential candidates may come close to agreeing, it is free trade.

Our country is being ripped off. Disastrous trade agreements written

by corporate America. We have lost American jobs. What do voters want?

Fair trade agreements that allow manufacturing jobs to return to

America. We are against the TTI P and other trade treaties because

they move jobs from here abroad. But is it right that politicians and

voters are blaming trade agreements for the loss of American jobs? They

are trying to find something to blame. The country is fashion on

tray. Support for trade deal is also falling in Europe. Only 17% of

Germans support the agreement, down from 55% just two years ago. --

fashioned on trade. Nearly 150,000 people have signed a petition to

stop Obama from doing agreeing the deal. The 13th round of negotiations

will be held in New York next week. Even if an agreement is reached

before President Obama leaves office, there is now doubt over

whether his successor will precede the deal. And the same uncertainty

applies to another trade deal with nature, the transpacific

partnership. Being an inspirational leader is

probably the goal of most aspiring managers, but a strong leadership

always have a positive impact on staff? A new study has found

sickness levels in staff may be higher under leaders who inspire

their teams to work above and beyond the call of duty. I spoke to the

report of the earlier, and asked her what the study tells us about good

bosses. It is quite surprisingly. We talk about inspirational leaders and

transformational leaders, and these are leaders that formulate a clear

vision for their teams, and also challenge them to problem solve and

take responsibility for developing themselves in their jobs. These are

things you should think where positive, and there is a lot of

research showing this type of leadership is related to

performance, and also more recently to well-being, work engagement and

satisfaction in jobs. But we have looked at what are the consequences

over time? Without doubt transformation and inspirational

leadership in relation to sickness absenteeism, and found if you

measure the leadership in the first year, any subsequent 12 months,

those who report their work in a team with a transformational leader

higher levels of sickness absenteeism to one side. So you say

a good boss is bad for your health? So what should be done going forward

for the so-called transformational leaders? They should make

adjustments so that employees do not get sick. Yes. We can talk about

pseudo- transformational leaders or authentic transformational leaders,

so it is important that leaders are aware not only of employees

performing well, also their health and well-being. So they display

values that we take care of the channel, we do not expect you to be

working at high levels of the time. That is part of the problem. If you

perform above and beyond all the time, you don't have an opportunity

to recover, and that is what leaders need to consider, making sure they

display values they consider both performance and employee health and

well-being, and make sure it is acceptable if you are not feeling

well, you don't come in. You take the day off rather than coming in

but you are ill. We found that increases sickness absenteeism if

you come in while you are ill. Over time, it means you will be more

likely to go on sick leave. I believe a good boss translates to

good health. Let's now meets this person. He/she will? -- is she will?

She smiles when people speak and asks you to take a photo, she is not

human. A research team in China spent three years creating her. She

is said to be one of the most realistic humanoid robots ever

made, and has been on show at the China International technology fair

in Shanghai. What do people make of her?

TRANSLATION: She would be more lifelike if she had more bodyline

which. I watched for a while and found out she can move her mouth and

eyes that had limited range of hand movement -- body luggage. She would

be more lively if her arms and legs moved more. I thought she was a real

human when I passed by just now. I looked again from a distance and

wondered why she did not move. I only found out you was a robot when

I got closer. I was surprised the quiz she was so lifelike -- she was

a robot. Japan's Nikkei is now open. It has been 40 minutes. Let's see

what happens with Mitsubishi shares. They were unable to match orders

from sellers, so no deals were executed for Mitsubishi. It comes

after the Japanese car manufacturer admitted to falsifying fuel economy

testator to make its emissions look more favourable. And as we can see

it right now, the Tokyo stock exchange currently down by half a

percent. The all ordinaries also in negative territory. Thank you for

investing your time with us. Goodbye for now.