:00:00. > :00:21.The Dow Jones scores 20,000 for the first time ever. Is this the Trump
:00:22. > :00:29.effect? And why India's universities are banning some start-ups from
:00:30. > :00:39.recruiting on their campuses. Good morning, Asia. Hello, world. It
:00:40. > :00:44.is Thursday. Glad you could join us. We kick off with Wall Street, where
:00:45. > :00:49.US stocks crossed a major milestone. The Dow Jones industrial average
:00:50. > :00:56.finishing above 20,000 for the first time ever and you also have the
:00:57. > :01:03.broader S 500 and the NASDAQ also at record levels. This is how Asian
:01:04. > :01:11.markets are reacting to the Dow Jones 20,000. The Nikkei gaining
:01:12. > :01:15.1.3% and the All Ords hired by 20 points. Basically Mr Trump's senior
:01:16. > :01:20.adviser was quick to comment on the news, tweeting that the landmark was
:01:21. > :02:25.down to the Trump effect, but is it? Let's have a look.
:02:26. > :02:30.Earlier I asked our business adviser if it really is the Trump effect. If
:02:31. > :02:34.you look at stocks, especially the Dow Jones, we have seen it is up
:02:35. > :02:40.some 8%. That's since the election of Donald Trump. Really when you
:02:41. > :02:44.look at some of the executive orders we've seen that Mr Trump put through
:02:45. > :02:48.over the last few days, what it is really signalling to Wall Street is
:02:49. > :02:52.that some of the promises that Mr Trump had campaigned on, things like
:02:53. > :02:59.rolling back some of the banking regulations, making the tax code in
:03:00. > :03:03.the US less, catered and making it easier for people to invest, it
:03:04. > :03:07.would seem from Wall Street that in fact the president will be trying to
:03:08. > :03:12.make those things reality. That said, you also have to consider the
:03:13. > :03:18.kind of economy that Mr Trump has inherited. We are seeing that the US
:03:19. > :03:22.labour market is doing well. The unemployment rate is at its laws
:03:23. > :03:28.level in about a decade and we saw that massive stimulus programme by
:03:29. > :03:32.the US central bank and the Federal Reserve. All of that help to lift
:03:33. > :03:38.market to where they are today. Stocks have rallied, as you
:03:39. > :03:42.mentioned. The US dollar is still putting pressure on Asian currencies
:03:43. > :03:47.are like the Japanese yen, which is usually good news for major Japanese
:03:48. > :03:53.companies who exported overseas. But did Mr Trump pulling out of the TDP
:03:54. > :03:58.and renegotiating the free trade agreement means the weaker yen will
:03:59. > :04:02.not be much help? I asked someone from the Bank of America what his
:04:03. > :04:08.forecast was for the Japanese currency. I think given the policy
:04:09. > :04:16.divergences between the markup in the bank of Japan and the Federal
:04:17. > :04:20.Reserve, the yen will rise into the media and it should be about 120.
:04:21. > :04:25.But then you have the US political pressure, which might talk things
:04:26. > :04:32.down. So from the Japanese policymakers' perspective, the
:04:33. > :04:37.dollar is high but not too high is how they feel. They could also see
:04:38. > :04:41.at strengthening by the end of 2017. What does this mean for the local
:04:42. > :04:48.and export companies? The weaker yen is usually good for Japanese
:04:49. > :04:56.automakers and exporters, but at the same time you are seeing the US
:04:57. > :05:00.president basically wanting Japanese companies to produce in the US and
:05:01. > :05:07.reduce exported from Japan, potentially. So it's a difficult
:05:08. > :05:11.situation. If you come to Tokyo you see many European but not so many
:05:12. > :05:15.Japanese cards and that the preference. So I think this trade
:05:16. > :05:23.issue is going to be quite challenging for the Japanese
:05:24. > :05:26.government and Japanese automakers. In other business news, Facebook has
:05:27. > :05:36.announced changes to its trending feature to tackle the growing issue
:05:37. > :05:39.of tech news. In its latest bid it says Facebook will not be
:05:40. > :05:46.personalised and the system will decide what is trending and everyone
:05:47. > :05:51.in the same region will see the same topics. Shares are down 13% in Tokyo
:05:52. > :05:57.and were untraded at one point, due to too many orders and that's after
:05:58. > :06:01.the company's full-year profitability came in lower than
:06:02. > :06:06.expected. Profit slipped at Boeing last year because of lower
:06:07. > :06:10.deliveries of its aircraft, where the US company expects to deliver
:06:11. > :06:16.more commercial planes and improve its earnings going forward. India's
:06:17. > :06:20.start-up companies have become the biggest recruiters of new graduates.
:06:21. > :06:25.The jobs on offer are amongst the most sought after banks to juicy
:06:26. > :06:28.salaries and attractive terms. That's until this year. Many
:06:29. > :06:36.universities have now blacklisted a number from recruiting on campus.
:06:37. > :06:40.This man is slowly getting used to the demands of professional life. He
:06:41. > :06:44.has been working as a trainee at a foreign company for the last six
:06:45. > :06:51.months. Although the engineering graduate counts himself lucky, it is
:06:52. > :06:55.not exactly his real job. He wanted to work for an up start-up and was
:06:56. > :06:59.recruited by one before he even graduated last year. Only to have
:07:00. > :07:04.the offer withdrawn within a few months. That left him with no
:07:05. > :07:10.prospects to find another opportunity. I started applying the
:07:11. > :07:14.companies and got some refusals because they didn't want to hire
:07:15. > :07:19.someone who was initially hired in another company. It was a struggle
:07:20. > :07:23.to find the next job. It is not a situation students from the
:07:24. > :07:29.prestigious Indian institute of technology expect to be in. For
:07:30. > :07:37.students in India, securing a seat at IIT is a big achievement. It is
:07:38. > :07:41.the Indian equivalent of studying at somewhere like Oxford University.
:07:42. > :07:44.Part of the appeal is a chance of getting a job offer from prestigious
:07:45. > :07:48.company and these days employment opportunities and successful
:07:49. > :07:53.start-ups are the most sought after, where people can do new and
:07:54. > :07:57.innovative things. If you want to be posted as a sales office or in the
:07:58. > :08:00.marketing division... Global investors have been pouring in
:08:01. > :08:03.capital to fund Indian start-ups, but most are struggling to make
:08:04. > :08:12.company Dimeck money, which means too many cutting jobs. -- struggling
:08:13. > :08:17.to make money. In an effort to protect its students, the IIT
:08:18. > :08:20.management has now and those companies from recruiting on campus
:08:21. > :08:24.at 23 of its branches throughout India. Our approach to start-ups
:08:25. > :08:28.this year has been more cautious. I also want to look at whether the
:08:29. > :08:33.funding opportunities and sources these companies have are viable or
:08:34. > :08:38.sustainable for a substantial period of time. The BBC contacted
:08:39. > :08:47.companies, but only a few responded. One of them said:
:08:48. > :08:56.More than 10 million young Indians enter the job market every year and
:08:57. > :09:00.the ones who are in the start-up sector expected to absorb a lot of
:09:01. > :09:04.them. But businesses can be risky. Both entrepreneurs starting out and
:09:05. > :09:11.for potential employees, hoping to work with them one day.
:09:12. > :09:15.The world's against human migration is currently under way this week and
:09:16. > :09:21.I've been talking about the many people returning home for the
:09:22. > :09:24.Chinese New Year holidays, or the spring festival. It is China's most
:09:25. > :09:32.important holiday, yet a seven-day break comes to a halt. Except for,
:09:33. > :09:37.as these pictures show, transportation systems and tourist
:09:38. > :09:41.sites. I asked someone from a travel company whether there is a different
:09:42. > :09:44.trend this year. Beyond the numbers we see a polarisation of traveller
:09:45. > :09:50.preferences onto important dimensions. One is how self focused
:09:51. > :09:56.they are and the second dimension in his how much control they are
:09:57. > :10:00.looking to exit on their travel. For Chinese travellers we are seeing
:10:01. > :10:06.more and more travellers, about 50%, getting much more self focused. It
:10:07. > :10:10.is all about me and not about the family? About self-discovery and
:10:11. > :10:15.wanting to exert more control. Let's have a quick look at the
:10:16. > :10:22.markets. An historical day on Wall Street for the Dow Jones industrial
:10:23. > :10:27.as Donna -- industrial and NASDAQ and SNP at record levels as well. It
:10:28. > :10:32.is rubbing off on the Nikkei and the Hang Seng as well. Australia is
:10:33. > :10:33.closed today for a public holiday. Thanks