Markets. Shanghais close friend holiday today. Market currencies are rallying. Indonesia rallying a head of the president ial Election Results. You are seeing a decline in crude oil in new york and in london. Gold falling for a second day as well. The meeting was called by jordan as the number of victims soared, about 400. What do we know and what is being said . Counciln security requested by jordan. Pictures. E the people are behind the scenes socussing what to do next far, we have had the first person to speak, the palestinian u. N. Ambassador rice. He talked about four minutes. And the ambassador from israel. He was quite belligerent talking about the dismantling of hamas. Here is the israeli u. N. Ambassador rice. Operation isf this to dismantle the tunnels, the terror tunnels that hamas has anlt and amassed in unbelievable way. It is also to dismantle the military infrastructure of hamas. Snly by the militarizing hamas weapons, we will be able to move to the next age and that is
Markets. To australia. Sx 200 is starting the day off in the red. Pretty much flat. New zealand this morning looks like this. Gaining half a percent higher. We are seeing strengthening in the kiwi. 82 u. S. Cents. Open cutting down to the in korea. Japan is close to celebrate the emperor first base. Apple finally has signed the longawaited deal to get icons iphone sellthrough china mobile. We are joined with the details from jays beijing. What does this mean . It means a lot to both players. For bothy hard fought sides. Six years of negotiations involving the top echelon of both companies. Tim cook has made this to hammer out the deal. Coming to fruition. It will give apple access to customers on chinas biggest network. In addition to those already using the iphones of the letter. This is quite a head start. There was a fever pitch for the iphone. That has cooled off a bit in china. I will get to the market share in just a minute. Is offered this since march 2012. There was pressure fo
Europe. Good evening to those in asia. A warm welcome to those just waking up in the United States. This is the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. We begin with what could be a winwin deal for apple and china mobile. After six long years of negotiations, the companies have struck a deal. It will give chinas 1. 2 billion wireless subscribers access to iphones. Caroline hyde joins us with the details. This is a long time coming. Six years. That is long they have been haggling it out. That last piece in the puzzle has been attained by apple. They were already with the second and third biggest wireless companies, china unicom in fact introduced the iphone back in 2009. China telecom had them in 2012. China mobile, the biggest player has got just above two thirds of the market. They have now been able to sell s. One 5c and 5 this basically gives apple access to more than double the population in the United States. The bakeware he is whether all of them will be spend
Takensee the fed having some very well communicated action concerning the tapering of the program. Those are good signs. In addition to which, we have seen the numbers and growth is picking up and unemployment is going down. All of that gives us a much stronger outlook for 2014 which brings us to raise our forecast. The imf seeing growth next year compared to this year and the u. S. Economy. A lot of green activity. Volumes up. You to see australia and malaysia. Company we mentioned in china mobile. Shares gaining. They signed a longawaited deal with apple to sell iphones. Stephen engle is with us from beijing. Walk us through the whole thing. It is been a protracted affair. Waiting. E been for those of the watching apple market said the client and china, they wanted to get it to china mobile but not to give up other concessions. China mobile demands that the falls work on their network of telephones work of their network. Fruitiont is coming to with a multiyear deal. No financial figu
We dont have trading in tokyo. It is the emperors birthday. John, good morning. Japan is closed or the emperors birthday today. China stocks are gaining. Apple as well and also foxconn part of that. Japan is closed. U. S. Gdp better than forecast. More details on what is happening as far as asiapacific stocks. Lets get back to our top stories. Apple finally signing a long awaited deal to get iphones sold through china mobile. Stephen engle is our china correspondent and he is in beijing. This is a long time coming. It is a pretty significant deal as well. X years six years worth of negotiation coming to fruition. Accessll give apple to access to customers on chinas biggest wireless at work. China telecom corp. The china apple have been offering since about 2009. Telecom has offered it since march of last year. The big stumbling block for apple and china mobile has been mobiles insistence to have apple make a handset that could be used on the Homegrown Technology that china mobile was f