With aaron and World Business report. Never mind those Exploding Phones samsungs on track for its best profit in years and pledges to put the Galaxy Note 7 debacle behind it. Plus, technology, trade and trump. The boss of sony tells us why goods and information must keep flowing freely. Welcome to World Business report. Im aaron heslehurst. Also coming up, mr trump locks horns with toyota over plans to build a new car plant in mexico. But first we start with samsung. In the last few hours South Korean Tech Giant has said its on track for the best quarterly profits in more than three years. Its a major boost for the company after the exploding Smartphone Scandal that put a serious dent in its reputation. Lets give you the numbers. In the three months to the end of december, samsung is forecasting profits of 7. 8 billion. Thats up by half on the same period last year, much better than expected and the best quarter since mid 2013. That might come as a surprise as we know samsung was force
Personally approved by the sony ceo kazuo hirai. Other emails are giving us a glimpse of politics. Producer scott rudin wrote to Sony Pictures Amy Pascal Rudin also railed against Angelina Jolie calling her a minimally talented spoiled brat and later apologized. I was joined by a consultant and veteran executive and i started by asking joe if it is the way hollywood does business. The main thing i would say is scott rudin, who is wellknown and a successful producer, has strong opinions and uses colorful languages and speaks in hyperbole, is about as newsworthy as it is cold and rainy in new york today. The way that people speak this way in hollywood and act this way is wellknown. I dont know if youre familiar with an industry column which was run by nikki finke, a notorious gossip columnist. This is the kind of fodder that would get into her column all of the time. Will it have major impact on the world at large . Probably not. Will it provide inside people with inside information that
Ceo kazuo hirai. Other emails are giving us a glimpse of politics. Producer scott rudin wrote to Sony Pictures Amy Pascal Rudin also railed against Angelina Jolie calling her a minimally talented spoiled brat and later apologized. I was joined by a consultant and veteran executive and i started by asking joe if it is the way hollywood does business. The main thing i would say is scott rudin, who is wellknown and a successful producer, has strong opinions and uses colorful languages and speaks in hyperbole, is about as newsworthy as it is cold and rainy in new york today. The way that people speak this way in hollywood and act this way is wellknown. I dont know if youre familiar with an industry column which was run by nikki finke, a notorious gossip columnist. This is the kind of fodder that would get into her column all of the time. Will it have major impact on the world at large . Probably not. Will it provide inside people with inside information that can be used as leverage . Yeah,
Interviewe the were personally approved by the sony ceo kazuo hirai. Other emails are giving us a glimpse of politics. Producer scott rudin wrote to Sony Pictures rudin also railed against Angelina Jolie calling her a minimally talented spoiled brat and later apologized. I was joined by a consultant and veteran executive and i started by asking joe if it is the way hollywood does business. The main thing i would say is scott rudin, who is wellknown producer, hasul strong opinions and uses colorful languages and speaks in hyperbole, is about as newsworthy as it is cold and rainy in new york today. The way that people speak this way in hollywood and act this way is wellknown. I dont know if youre familiar with an industry column which was run by nikki finke, a notorious gossip columnist. This is the kind of fodder that would get into her column all of the time. Will it have major impact on the world at large . Probably not. Will it provide inside people with inside information that can b
Is the verdict of the child sony chief executive as he speaks out for the first time about the cyber attack prompted by the interview. Welcome to countdown. Lets start with the global selloff that is characterized at the start of the trading year. Asian stocks fell the most in seven weeks aided by the decline of crude and the fragility of the eurozone. In the u. S. , the price of wti crude fell below 50 a barrel for the First Time Since 2009. Energy companies have been the biggest losers in the selloff which is wiped out more than 1 trillion of equity verio value. The head of the election is in three weeks. It is fair today we had an oil induced route yesterday that is spilling over into today. Benchmark u. S. Oil gumbel of 50 a barrel for the First Time Since 2009 and a closed above 50 a barrel but a decline of 5 year to date in this year alone. It fell 46 last year. That is just two days. Already down by that much. After reaching that high last year of 100. It was not confined to the