Alphabet and amazon report. Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. It has just gone 6 00 in london. Earnings onslaught is a great way to describe it. Roche numbers are coming through. At 30. 4lf sales come in 7 billion. The estimate was 30. 53. First half core operating profit. The red headline, let me get to that. View toits sales growth mid to high single digits. Thats very interesting. Raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digit. Thats the red headline on roche. At 11. 1. Comes in the estimate was 10. 65. Thats a beat on first half core eps. Core operating profit for the first half comes in at 12. 36. The estimate was 12. 16. Theres a beat on some of the numbers. The headline you want to focus on is the fact that its raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digits. There were some pressures whether it wouldve raised guidance a second time this year. To the ceowe speak of roast. Dont miss that interview at 7 30 a. M. London time. Dani burger is standing by with th
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Street that the Federal Reserve is likely to cut rates as soon as next month. With stocks back at record highs do you trust in the fed and keep pressing the buy button, guy no. I know it is wedding season dont use this song. It is amazing she is in my head if you are thinking about playing this song, dont do it. Theres no circumstance this song should be played at all. Sounds like he played it at his wedding. No, i didnt. Anyway, back to the record high. Yes, label me skeptical listen, lets go back a couple of months and i thought the s p 500 would get down to 2650 it got down to 2730 so i was off there. Here we are. I understand why it is happening, and frankly the reasons dont matter if the market went up and you were long you made money and thats the bottom line i will tell you, label me skeptical with 24 of global sovereign bonds with negative yields, with gold making a fiveyear high, seemingly breaking out to the upside, with utilities making alltime highs, with every asset on the
Altogether after a promise labelled as for the birds by the head of the institute for fiscal studies. Even so, rishi sunak has reiterated that ambition in a subsequent interview. Income a subsequent interview. Income tax thresholds remain frozen, dragging ever more people into the tax and into its higher tax brackets. Is there anyone to vote for. 7 if you believe in lower taxes or an enterprise economy, i will ask my excellent political panel. While pensioners may fume, are being penalised in a budget that favoured workers , some may favoured workers, some may welcome the chancellors help for the arts. Andrew lloyd for the arts. Andrew lloyd webber says that the governments decision to fix theatre tax relief at two generous rates of 40 and 45 could drive transformation change in the sector. Chief opera critic at the telegraph, sir Nicholas Kenyon, will discuss that with me. That lover discuss that with me. That lover of the stage, Stefan Kyriazis, has been looking at how the theatre is
Performance is a nothing burger. Its up 1. 5 . I dont expect anything to happen at the Shareholders Meeting today to see a catalyst for that. Whats wrong with this stock . I think what we need is in june at the wwdc to hear about the ai innovation, and you had a little bit of a glimpse into it yesterday, and why is it so particularly relevant . In the last six months the perception of the marketplace is that apple is not innovating quickly enough in that direction and certainly has not laid out what the strategy and the plan is for ai. If you think back to 2014, okay, go back to 2014, in may of 2014, we began to hear the rumors that apple was finally going to deliver something similar to the android in terms of the size of the iphone increasing. So what did we get . In september you had the announcement where you had the iphone 6 plus, 5. 5 inches. That was the most successful iphone ever to sell, and i will tell you this at wwdc in june, if apple is able to confidently communicate to