it comes after the embattled lender revealed that it suffered a huge drop in deposits during the first quarter. first republic came under intense pressure after silicon valley bank and signature bank collapsed last month. the bbc s samira hussain has more from new york. normally when a company s earnings for are released, executive hold a call with analysts where they take questions. but that wasn t the case for first republic bank. executives spoke for about ten minutes and then took no questions. it is perhaps an indication ofjust how bad things have become at the regional bank. during the first quarter, it lost $102 billion in customer deposits. that s way more than half of the $176 billion it had on hand at the end of last year. after silicon valley bank and signature bank were taken over by federal regulators, wall street worried that first republic could be the next bank to go down, since it has similar clients to silicon valley bank people in the startup space. on mo
first republic came under intense pressure after silicon valley bank and signature bank collapsed last month. the bbc s samira hussain has more from new york. normally when a company s earnings for are released, executive hold a call with analysts where they take questions. but that wasn t the case for first republic bank. executives spoke for about ten minutes and then took no questions. it is perhaps an indication ofjust how bad things have become at the regional bank. during the first quarter, it lost $102 billion in customer deposits. that s way more than half of the $176 billion it had on hand at the end of last year. after silicon valley bank and signature bank were taken over by federal regulators, wall street worried that first republic could be the next bank to go down, since it has similar clients to silicon valley bank people in the startup space. on monday, the bank said it would cut about a quarter of its staff and slash executive compensation. samira executive
and cloud computing giant it continues a trend in big tech set out this week by the likes of meta, microsoft and alphabet whose latest results show that they re all doing surprising well. this has lifted markets across the board. lisa lisa we saw similar on wall street. here s the bbc s samira hussain. over the last year, amazon has been aggressively cutting costs to help boost profitability. it s laid off 18,000 people and is currently about to eliminate another 9000 jobs. is currently about to eliminate another 9000jobs. it is currently about to eliminate another 9000 jobs. it would appear that some of those measures are already paying off, as the retail giant posted earnings that beat investor expectations. amazon s cloud computing business which didn t go as much as expected last quarter did very well in the first three months of this year, as did its advertising business. even retail, a core part of amazons business exceeded expectations. the boom in online shoppi
we begin with the airline industry and hope for staff at the collapsed airline flybe. ryanair and easyjet say they are happy to snap them up. easyjet says it has 250 vacancies for cabin crew, ryanair says it has vacancies in all categories, including pilots, engineers and ground staff. flybe went into administration on saturday putting 277 staff out of work. in about 25 minutes we ll be getting ryanair s third quarter results which are expected to be strong due to pent up travel demand. joining me now isjohn strickland, airline analyst atjls consulting. good morning, lovely to see you. let s start with flybe. the staff were concerned about their future but easyjet and ryanair say they are ready and waiting. ryanair say they are ready and waitinu. ~ ryanair say they are ready and waitin-. . , ryanair say they are ready and waitinu. ~ , ., ryanair say they are ready and waitinu. ~ u, ., ., ., waiting. we could not have a better contrast waiting. we could not have a better c
let s start with china, because it s currently holding its annual two day national people s congress and has set out its economic forecast for the year. premier li keqiang told a packed audience in beijing on sunday, that the government hoped to achieve economic growth of around 5% in 2023. the figure is in line with most analyst predictions. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed china s growth. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of five and a half % and its slowest for decades. lets discuss this with louise loo, senior economist at oxford economics. there s widely expected to be a big shakeup in the team handling the economy. around 5%, it probably implies that growth as low as 4.5% is probably acceptable to the government and we do think that means the policy matters that we see will be a little bit more than what we expect last year. more than what we expect last ear. , , , ye