14/11/2017 Asia Business Report

And the top story here in the UK.

The government says MPs will be

given a take-it-or leave-it vote

on the final Brexit deal before

the UK leaves the EU.

Resident Ron heads back home to the

US from Asia with billions of

dollars' worth of contracts for

American companies but could he

sealed a deal with China? --

President Trump. And the numbers

don't like, wearable technology

telling sports coach is how hard

their teams are working. Welcomed

Asia Business Report. I am Sharanjit

Leyl. It's been a world wind --a

whirlwind tour of Asia for President

Donald Trump, a difficult task to

reassure America's allies in the

region, persuade China to pressure

North Korea and demonstrate the US

is still willing to do business with

Asia. I spoke to Ian Bremner earlier

and asked how successful his being.

It was moving forward with the

Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP

11, which does not involve the

United States. Trump did get a

number of headline bilateral

investment deals signed, some of

which are new, some not. Not

unusual, a lot of presidents do

that. China, Trump has said, and I

think this is a victory, he's gotten

the Chinese to do more in punishing

the North Koreans are a number of

things they have done to upset the

need -- the international community,

nuclear missiles, the Chinese

supporting Trump and the Chinese are

upset with Kim Jong-un but in terms

of access of American corporations

to the Chinese market, intellectual

property being stolen and technology

transfers, most importantly what the

Chinese are doing in IT and

technology, the Americans are

getting nothing of what they want

and certainly in terms the trade

deficit. No movement.

We know there

has been billions of dollars of

deals announced. What that goes some

way to plucking that huge trade

deficit?

Not really. These ideals

which are going to play out in

headline numbers which are great.

Some of them need to actually get

implemented. We see the final

numbers usually are not. They

initially announced. That's not

unusual for Trump. It happens all

the time with presidential visits.

Under mentally, the importance of

trade architecture being driven

everywhere but the United States is

much more impactful on things like

trade deficits that any one-off

deals.

Would you agree that Trump's

America first policy is essentially,

by nature, protectionist?

Is turning

his back free trade? It's

interesting. I would say more

economic nationalists. He wants a

bilateral trade deal which is more

attractive for the Americans. Shinzo

Abe is one of Trump's best friends,

if not best friend internationally,

and said absolutely not.

That tells

you a lot of what you need to know.

That was Ian Bremmer talking about

those deals. Max Morrison is here

with a more detailed look.

You heard

him saying that the headline numbers

are good. Donald Trump fancies

himself as the dealmaker in chief.

The headline figure is quite

significant. The lion's share coming

from China including some blue-chip

names like Boeing and Qualcomm.

Japan and Vietnam's and South Korea.

Japan and Vietnam's and South Korea.

The Philippines is work in progress.

They have made promises, no hard

deals coming through. It is

business. The men around of

understanding. Deals down the road,

not legally binding. These things

don't happen overnight. They take

legal groundwork. If you look at one

particular sector, and that is

energy. Major deals were announced.

The biggest of them, $43 billion

into Alaska and if confirmed, it is

significant because given all the

political concerns over Chinese

companies investing in America, that

such a deal would go through. An

analyst I spoke to earlier said a

lot of this was for perception. Good

politics, we will see if it's good

business.

Of course. We know with

Donald Trump, is America first

polity is geared towards bringing

jobs back to America. Are any of

these

jobs back to America. Are any of

these deals going to achieve that?

Jobs, absolutely. He loves to say

bringing jobs back to America. That

Alaska project we were talking

about, up to 12,000. But the energy

analyst I spoke to say there has

dashed those were American

construction jobs, 4-5 years, laying

cement and welding and steel, they

are not long-term jobs. Again,

perceptions, look at all these jobs.

Long-term, not as much. You

mentioned Qualcomm. They are in the

news because they have turned down a

$130 billion bid and this could set

the stage for a bitter fight in the

world of mobile technology.

Singapore-based Broadcom made the

offer at the chief of Qualcomm says

it undervalues the company. Shares

in Barbie toymaker Mattel had jumped

over rumours of a takeover by

Hasbro. Last month, shares in both

Dell after the bankruptcy of Toys R

Us. And but Coyne has bounced back

after losing more than a third of

its value in three days. -- ??MACRO1

or two. A planned soft -- Bitcoin. A

planned software upgrade provided

issues. Australia's business

confidence surged to its highest

record October, with strength of

sales and profits seen across a

range of industries. The National

Australia Bank survey showed its

index of business quadrupled in the

long-run average however this is in

stark contrast to the mood of

consumers who are greatly concerned

about rising utility costs. In the

world of professional sport, elite

athletes and their coaches know that

even the smallest difference can

actually translate into a

significant advantage and a

little-known Australian company is

scoring big, designing a new way for

coaches to train their teams by

using wearable devices. We look at

how technology and sports is

changing the game.

In again, in again. Be patient, be

patient.

With these things, what we could not

do before, if there is a low

intensity of training and you come

to him after and you say, look, you

have to push again, it is coming,

you are not doing anything. Today,

nobody can hide any more.

That it is

a game-changer for sports,

especially elite sports. Technology

has given a new dimensional to the

world of football.

They capture the

signals of the GPS or the American

and Russian satellites and from

there, they capture all the

movements of the players on the

pitch. Crunching numbers, it is very

small. And this shows how high the

play was working.

You don't

necessarily want to look at the

distance. Another player runs from A

to B, 50 metres, might sprint, jump,

jog, and they calculate that.

Staying with sport, the first time

in 60 years, Italy has been

eliminated from the football World

Cup finals next year in Russia. The

Italian team who were four times

winners of the World Cup and you can

see them here trading, they were

held to a 0-0 draw by Sweden in the

play-offs. But have a quick look at

the markets.

We are also expecting retail sales

number later in the day from the US.

And that is it for