Anna welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. Ryan im ryan chilcote. Anna at 6 00 lets have a look at the tech sector. Lets start with apple, because i have a chart here that shows the afterhours move we saw this was even after the Company Reported a record thirdquarter profit number. Revenues were disappointing. Ryan this threatens to remove again that apple saw that huge rally of almost 10 . It could be one of the biggest losses ever. Anna more generally, this was the biggest tech rally since october. Will that change in the session today . We have lots to talk about. Apple was just one of a few tech giants that reported in yesterdays session. That came afterhours. Lets get Caroline Hyde and paul sweeney. Great pleasure to have you. Lets continue the conversation with apple and what it is. Caroline its phenomenal when you put it in perspective we could see 66 billion dollars worth of its market cap erased. In perspective, that is more than bmws entire market cap. It is a record thirdqu
Anna welcome to countdown everybody. First, we are going to hear from Credit Suisse. Were going to hear from roche. Mark it is a big day from roche as they report earnings. Anna we will speak to caroline about how the business is reporting. Anna sales rose 6 at a constant foreignexchange rate. We are confirming the for your outlook. Mark absolutely. We are waiting on the net income. Missing estimates come at 7. 22. We were looking at 7. 38. That is core eps. It is a really interesting day for roche. In terms of the sales forecast. This is a company that, over the last year, has really trailed the pharmaceutical sector. Anna comparatively, to the rest of the pharmaceutical sector. Mark 7 versus 32 . Anna 9. 2 4 billion, and ahead of the estimate. It seems to be a mixed bag when comparing sales and those estimates. The foreignexchange eroded. That is a very important conversation to have. Also it is interesting to talk about how they will keep a lid on their costs in the second half. The
Lets catch up on what the market has done overnight. The big issue is oil, back in the bear market. It is currently down 20 off its highback in june, when we reached the high. Clearly, china is weighing into that once more with concerns about too much supply and where demand goes when you have the pmi coming out of china. If missed every single economists forecast. We saw doing even worse than had been expected. I will also bring you uptodate with some of the market moves we saw in terms of closing on the equity market. The commodities that is feeding into the market, the s p 500 off by nearly a half a percent. Meanwhile, the european stoxx 600 is off. They have been slumping for three days in a row. That brings us to our twitter question of the day. Let us know how much further does the commodities route have to go . Tweet me. I want to know your thoughts and what you think good oil go even further than a 20 decline . Of course it was disappointing in china when preliminary pmi fell t
Failing to complete safety recalls. The carmaker will now be monitored. Welcome, good morning. Im caroline hyde. He has some breaking news from ubs the bank is publishing secondquarter results early. Lets get out to ryan, at the breaking news desk. Ryan 1. 21 billion is the net income, 53 from what they did last year. Thats better than what analysts were expecting. They expected something closer to 900 million, and the reason is private Wealth Management. Sergio armani issued triumphant earnings today, saying he was very pleased with how things were going. They cut costs and obviously revenue is coming in well. Capital rates shows the company staying above target 14. 4 . These numbers came out earnings came out over the weekend in the swiss newspaper and it left a lot of people confused. Ubs this morning said it also misled people and that is why they moved their earnings up. It is kicking off a very busy week for the bank. Caroline thank you very much. More breaking news lets kick it
Welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. 6 00 in the morning this tuesday. Lets start with the oil story. Two things to talk about we are back in a bear market once again and we will come to that chart in just a moment. Statoil is the other thing major oil is reporting numbers. Secondquarter adjusted net income is coming in at 7. 2 billion norwegian krone, ahead of the estimate. The net income bottom line number looks much better than markets were looking for. We will get further into the dividend story as we go through the morning because that could be some interesting stories. Q2 sales once again above the estimate. They are talking about how much of an impact the Maintenance Cost are having on the business in the 2015 number they talk about maintenance being 45 Million Barrels per day. It is in line with the overall 2015 trend, what they expect to see in the Third Quarter. They also say they will declare a Quarterly Dividend in u. S. Dollars from the Second Quarter. Plots to talk abou