Josh lipton joins us with a look at the incredible stock, the incredible year. Hey, josh. Reporter carl, thats right. As 2019 comes to a close, apple investors have plenty of reasons to celebrate that stock has enjoyed a remarkable run surging more than 80 this year. That means apple is on track now for its best year since 2009 another way, it added 530 billion in market cap this year. Thats the equivalent of two netflix, three teslas, with a few billion left over. The nasdaq is market cap weighted, given apples size, it helped to power the index to a record 9,000 level today, most Analysts Covering apple rate it a buy. Nearly 60 in part because they think tim cook with the current lineup of devices will be able to keep iphone revenue relatively flat the next few quarters, even as services and wearables continue to go strongly theyre betting that should be enough to drive Single Digits growth for the company what are the risks for investors to consider . I caught up with gene munster,
For Women Artists. Time is running out to stop a Global Climate disaster and temperatures rising even further, according to a new report from the United Nations. The Un Environment Agency says, over the next decade, global emissions need to fall by more than 7 every year to have any chance of avoiding warming the planet by more than 1. 5 celsius. Even the current rise in temperatures is having an effect, as droughts become more common all over the world. Australia has seen one of its longest dry spells. That has made the massive bushfires in New South Wales and queensland even worse. And in zimbabwe, in southern africa, serious drought is threatening urban and rural life. The Bbcs Stephen Sackur has just been there. When the Zambezi River is in full flow, you can see why the explorer David Livingstone called it a view for the angels. But look at the falls now. This is what southern africas prolonged drought means. The volume of water is down by two thirds. Here we are at this viewpoint
Bit despite news of increased inventories. For the global exchange, where we bring you market moving news from around the world. Are bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Da tart with e curran. Had positive signs since sunday, when the government said they would push through new oversight of ip protection, and they want to punish those who are guilty of ip theft. That was followed by some details in one of the state newspapers that china is also looking at the oversight of any trade agreement with the u. S. In ways of ensuring that any deal isnt limited. Then we had the news yesterday from the Commerce Ministry talking about reaching consensus on core issues. The moonbeams it is been nothing but positive in recent days, matching what is coming out of washington, though we dont yet have any further details on when or if an agreement might be signed. We have your minder did have a reminder on the economy when profit for industrial firms dropped almost 10 from
How the sector is shaping up for the condensed Holiday Season, already december 2nd why jack dorsey is planning to spend a big chunk of next year in africa. Well discuss it even if we know nothing about it never stops us no as we enter the first day of trading in december, stocks are looking to maintain the upward momentum following what was the best monthly performance since june the nasdaq was the top performer over the three major indices its november gain was 4. 5 , jim, as we head into 2020, amazingly as that is we have to look at the likes of apple and facebook and the incredible gains and some of the laggards in technology it is hard to imagine amazon is a laggard, it has been performing as has alphabet. I think people should watch jpmorgan and United Health which bottomed at the exact moment when the of senator warren hit its peak i continue to believe like you do, david, it is way too early one thing i would say, there is no reason for jpmorgan to be up where it is, given the
We start with the u. S. Senate bill aimed at supporting hong kong protesters. Ministry said in a statement that it blatantly interferes in Hong Kong Affairs and other china internal affairs. Bloombergs great at china editor karen leigh, walk us through what happened. Karen this follows chinas line telling the u. S. To back off when it comes to hong kong. The into options that it could take. Sees a bit hong kong of a more normal daytoday after many days off, and a standoff between protesters and police is coming slowly to an end. Looking ahead towards district elections on sunday. Should the government delay or postpone them, that could lead to more protests, so all eyes sickly turn to next weekend. Eyes basically turn to next weekend. Alix thank you. Bloombergs matt miller joins us from frankfurt. Walk us through the highlights of the report. This twice a year, as you said. They think this is a part of the responsibility they have for setting Monetary Policy, to also point out the risk