If the latest data is to be the judge of that. All of that and the second edition of the equities market today. What is going on . We have this Industrial Production that is coming up. We are in fact the last quarter. Fact than last quarter. The steepest decline. A pretty bleak quarter for japan. Abenomics . Ff of the second arrow. The third arrow has not happened yet. Clearly, we have money being pulled out. Exactly. Do we have the issue of people pulling out . The 900 million japanese yen that has been pulled out and only a week in march. That is the most. It shows the impact. The yen has been very strong. The tax rise tomorrow as well. All that is bullish into the markets. Over here, i will try to do. You can see, there you can see. It is below the 50,000 mark. Nikkei, a bit of a concern. If the cb you can see the apex. That is impacting exporters. That is abroad. The Biggest Issue will serve us. Abe has been faltering somewhat. They will get to that figure. 9. 5 billion u. S. Dolla
Exclusive. We are joined in the studio. Russian sanctions on the International Art market. Lets stay with russia. The west has hit russia with a fresh round of sanctions. sd includes Vladimir Putin allies. We spoke about the impact of russian sanctions on business. For the moment, we are investigating the significance of the sanctions and coming back to practical implications. Bp has a lot of exposure to russia. In profitst a drop today. There is a list of stories today that are making headlines. Impact. Me about the we knew people close to Vladimir Putin would be on this list. It is just him and it has a role bp. Ct on and puts them in a pickle. Largest 20 of russias oil producer. The corporate entity has not been sanctioned and the ceo has. If you are bob dudley, you have a 20 stake and a seat on the board. As a u. S. In citizen, can you go to the Board Meeting or not . We heard them say they would have to investigate the sanctions a little more carefully and that is what we already
International franchise. Lets get headlines from carol massar. Apple out with its earnings. Quarterly profit rose to 7. 75 billion. The jump in iphone sales making up for the drop in ipads. Microsoft out with its earnings after the close. Profits fell shy of estimates. Half it down by the acquisition of nokias handset business. And herbalife shares rise getting more than 25 as bill ackman failed to convince investors there was fraud. Cory johnson joins us from san francisco. Lets go through microsoft. How did the Company Performed during the quarter . Gross margins slipped but we have seen that going on for the past couple of months. We were talking about the surface. I was just asking. 409 million spent. Somebody out there is buying a lot of surfaces. Maybe validating the surface team we will file later. How much . 409 million. A lot of money to develop things like the surface and the xbox and a lot of software. Talk about the profit margins. They are declining. As the business shifts
The news at 6 00 starts right now. Good evening and thanks forbe being with us on this friday. Ma and im jessica aguirre. Some reliefhe is a live look at Traffic Camera in dublin. Temperatures getting dangerously high there today again. Yeah, you said soon. Thats the key word. Lets start with jeff ranieri. Still hot. Yes. But thankfully coming to the end, hopefully in the next few hours. It definitely is going to be winding down for us. Definitely this weekend. Were going see some marked changes in that forecast. Lets go ahead and get you a look at what were seeing so far today. And you can see most of that heat was contained towards inland. Contra costa, also alameda counties. Up to 108 in livermore. Walnut creek 105. Brentwood 105. Gilroy 102. Saratoga whopping up to 101. Tonight, especially inland contra costa, Alameda County will have those 80s and 90s. But check it out. Tomorrow morning 69 degrees. Youre also noticing the cloud cover here all the way through the day tomorrow. Well
Steven kent mirrassou believes it can be again. Behind the label, meet a vintner with a past deeply rooted in californias wine history, yet focused on the future of Livermore Valley wines. My familys actually the oldest winemaking family in north america. Growing grapes and making wine is in 6th generation vintner steven kent mirrassous blood. The mirrassou family, has been making wine since 1854. 6th generation, yes. 152 years weve been doing this. Today, he makes wine under the steven kent label. Steven kent is my first and middle name. Mirassou is a brand name owned by a different winery so were not able to use mirassou as part of our business name. Were on the ghielmetti vineyard in livermore. While the mirrasou family grew grapes and made wine in san jose for decades, stevens father moved east to make wine in nearby Livermore Valley. Livermore is one of the oldest wine growing regions in california. Grapes were planted here in the 1840s much the same time as napa valley. We believ