Friday, April 18, 2014

China's New Home Prices Up in 69 Cities on Year



April 18 (Bloomberg) –- Bloomberg’s Zeb Eckert reports on China’s March home price data which saw prices rise in 56 out of 70 cities on a month-on-month basis which is slightly lower than February’s number. He speaks to Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television’s “On The Move Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Submarine Will Eventually Find MH370, Weller Says



April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Tim Weller, operations manager at Phoenix International Holdings Inc., the company that operates the unmanned submarine hunting for the missing Malaysian Air plane, talks about the search. The Bluefin-21 completed its fourth dive yesterday without finding any signs of the aircraft, according to Phoenix. Weller speaks from Largo, Maryland, with Angie Lau on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)

Wall Street snaps back to life (2:30)



April 17 - Summary: The S&P 500 roars back with its best weekly gain since July, while the Nasdaq snaps a three-week slump aided by upbeat earnings from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and General Electric. Conway G. Gittens reports.

The great British farmland boom (1:59)



Apr 17 - Britain's troubled Co-operative Group is preparing to cash in on nearly 18,000 acres of farmland in one of the biggest UK land sales in decades. As Ivor Bennett reports, the market timing couldn't be better, with farmland prices soaring over 270 percent in the last 10 years.

Distraught families of missing South Korean ferry passengers await news (1:33)



April 18 - Distraught family members of ferry passengers urge authorities to find their loved ones, as the search continues for 268 people still missing. Mana Rabiee reports.