pre tax profits ringed in at $7.7 billion in the third quarter. now, this is all driven by rising global interest rates feeding into their balance sheets. but there have been questions before that these high rates were not being passed on to savers. joining me now is the independent banking analyst, frances coppola. nice to see you, doing rather well. i imagine those paying higher mortgage rates and everything it is a bitter pill. tell us more about the numbers? it is yet tell us more about the numbers? it is yet more tell us more about the numbers? it is yet more profits from their very healthily inaudible it has shrunk ever so slightly in this quarter but it is still way above where it was last year and that does reflect the fact that they have passed on interest rates to lenders much more quickly than they have to savers, which i think some people might get quite cross about. ~ . ., , , about. wanted we are seeing, is we are seeing about. wanted we are seeing, is we are
Google parent, out of ode, gives its forecast. Alphabet. Hideo kojima ta kes forecast. Alphabet. Hideo kojima takes us on a tour of his studio. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Im rico hizon. Thank you for investing your time with another Asia Business report. Its a friday. We start with googles efforts to diversify away from its main Search Engine business. It is beginning to pay off. Alphabet said profits rose by 8 to over 5 billion. It was lower than we expected. I asked our reporter how the core business, google, has been performing. Google is about how many ads can be put among the search results. 36 more people are clicking on the advertisements than last year. That isa advertisements than last year. That is a good sign. More people clicking on them. But as the Company Continues to move over to the mobile world as opposed to the desktop Search Engine, it is finding advertisers are willing to pay less for those advertisements. That is happening more. The amount they want to spend
their ancestry back to ireland, and the emigration museum celebrates this small country s far reaching impact. it features the stories of more than 300 irish men and women and even offers genealogy appointments to help tourists explore their own family history. for a refreshment, you could stop off at the country s most visited tourist attraction, the guinness storehouse, which produces 880 million pints of the black stuff every single year. i popped over a few months ago to check out their exhibit and sample their new alcohol free stout. you genuinely wouldn t know. well, i genuinely wouldn t know. and if you re a budding joyce fan, you can t miss the bloomsday celebrations onjune 16. this annual festival taking place on the date depicted in ulysses, and there are events inspired by the novel all over dublin, including street performances and fancy dress. stay tuned, because later
and even offers genealogy appointments to help tourists explore their own family history. for a refreshment, you could stop off at the country s most visited tourist attraction, the guinness storehouse, which produces 880 million pints of the black stuff every single year. i popped over a few months ago to check out their exhibit and sample their new alcohol free stout. you genuinely wouldn t know. well, i genuinely wouldn t know. and if you re a budding joyce fan, you can t miss the bloomsday celebrations onjune 16. this annual festival taking place on the date depicted in ulysses, and there are events inspired by the novel all over dublin, including street performances and fancy dress. stay tuned, because later in the programme, i ll pop into one of the festival s most famous landmarks. still to come on the travel show, holidays for the hard up simon s here with tips
tourist attraction, the guinness storehouse, which produces 880 million pints of the black stuff every single year. i popped over a few months ago to check out their exhibit and sample their new alcohol free stout. you genuinely wouldn t know. well, i genuinely wouldn t know. and if you re a budding joyce fan, you can t miss the bloomsday celebrations on june 16. this annual festival taking place on the date depicted in ulysses, and there are events inspired by the novel all over dublin, including street performances and fancy dress. stay tuned, because later in the programme, i ll pop into one of the festival s most famous landmarks. still to come on the travel show, holidays for the hard up simon s here with tips on travelling for less. tuesdays and wednesdays tend to be