Lowered iphone x shipment projections for the next quarter, citing weak demand late in the holiday season. Iphone sales have declined by 10 Million Units next quarter. Other analysts cite the iphones high price and a lack of groundbreaking innovations. We talked about that to Bloomberg Technologys alex webb. Alex the iphone x was released six weeks after the iphone 8. And so there was a fear that maybe if they got too close to the release date of samsungs next highend smartphone which will probably come in march, there would not be enough demand to sustain the demand they otherwise have to get. Cory competition is another part of this . Alex exactly. Particularly in china, a lot of the local manufacturers are coming out with products now, which have a better price point than what apple is able to offer, but have similar very features. Nobody quite yet has the Face Identification or the sensor that the iphone has. Some of these analysts were writing earlier today, that has not been enou
Seeking 1 billion to get out of its iron ore joint venture in brazil. Betty a billion dollar headache for bhp, a 7 billion windfall for jpmorganwells fargo, that really propelled the market higher on friday. Along with that inflation data. In record territory in the u. S. , what a month it has been. Lets quickly pull up the boards to see how much we gain, the s p closing at a record, the dow adding over 200 points, the nasdaq also higher. I get the feeling a lot of this will be as the markets are so high, a lot of it will depend on the news we get this week, including earnings, the higher the markets go, the more vulnerable it might be to pullbacks. And many of us have wouldhe first of 2018, we see a pullback, it has been dead wrong so far. Saying thech, biggest on record. Find the bears are throwing in the towel. Looking to see some gains with the u. S. Markets closed for the holiday monday. This is how we are faring in new zealand, about 1 5 of 1 . 72. 47 for the qb right now. Thedol
Feeding Market Information to a swarm of japanese traders. Can you get more exuberance into this market . This fomo trade when it comes to equities in the u. S. And global, 24 billion flowing global sixth largest for inflows. ,hen it comes to u. S. Stocks 11 higher than its 200 day moving average, the whitest cap since 2013 idest gap since 2013. We do have a Public Holiday when it comes to u. S. Stocks on monday, so a wellearned rest when it comes to some of these u. S. Stocks and the recent rally we have seen. We have some breaking news when it comes to xiaomi. Considering chinese banks when it comes to their ipo, but sent to have chosen Goldman Sachs and deutsche bank, as well as Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, so more color on that story. Fromhotly anticipated ipo xiaomi, once a top contender when it comes to the smartphone space, a real disruptor for that space. 30 minutes away from the open. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia coming online. Sophie taking a look at market action. Br
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But first, to our lead. Snap spiked after a blowaway fourthquarter earnings report, with revenues topping estimates for the First Time Since the company went public almost a year ago. The earnings were buoyed by momentum in the ad business and user growth. Snap said fourthquarter sales jumped 72 to 785 million. Its daily active users are up 18 from one year ago. We broke it down with a market analyst, deborah, and a bloomberg reporter sarah frier, who covers snap. What did snap get right this quarter . Well, they have been transitioning their advertising business to make it more automatic, more programmatic, selling ads automatically, which means they can have a bigger base of advertisers. The price of ads has gone down, but the volume in the amount of time people look at these ads is going up, so snap has been able to really make this work for them this quarter for the first time. Emily deborah, what is jumping out to you . We know they have been doing a lot, the whole redesign, perha