Lets look at these markets and our into the european trading day. Stoxx 600 in europe up by. 1 . And even start to the trading day. Evenly divided winners and losers on the European Equity markets. Lacking any direction. Into the u. S. , also lacking direction. We have seen a little bit above the flatline. Not getting a great bicker great bit of direction. A big focus on Central Banks and a u. S. And a focus on u. S. Policy. Titians, ay trade tensions, that coming up. Wrist bank leaves behind five years riksbank leaves behind five years. Is now what we are showing you. We were showing you the norwegian krone. Not to be confused with the riksbank. Bank, we scroll back to what they did there. That was as expected. See a to this picture, we number of Central Banks leaving policy unchanged. They were treated for negative Interest Rate hiking. They were moving in their own direction moving against the cutting cycle for many previous months. We continue to do that. Lets get a new lets get an
First, to our lead. We had a slew of big tech earnings this week, and getting the attention was apple. I traveled to their new headquarters in california on thursday to sit down with tim cook after earnings were released. We went through some of the main takeaways. It sounds solid to me. When you look at a device like this, it is incredibly sophisticated. It is at a higher price point. When you consider the replacement cycles for consumers are slowing, i think it is a very strong number. While people like to talk about the high price point might deter consumers from upgrading, you have to keep in mind it is a total cost of service. The hardware isnt the biggest chunk of the service. Emily we also talked about the performance of the iphone x in china. There has been concern that the price was too high. I asked cook about that, he told me, in china, the top five selling smartphones, everyone is the iphone. This same situation in the u. S. , japan, the top six out of seven smartphones or
Forces. First to our lead. We had earnings this week, and getting the attention was apple. I traveled to their new headquarters in california on thursday to sit down with tim cook it after earnings were released. It sounds solid to me. A device like this is incredibly sophisticated. It is at a higher price point. I think it is very it is a very strong number. While a high price point might deter consumers from upgrading, you have to keep in mind it is a total cost of service. The hardware isnt the biggest chunk of the service. Emily we also talked about the performance of the iphone x in china. There has been concerned that the price was too high. I asked cook about that, he told me, in china, the top five selling smartphones, everyone is the iphone. Every one is the iphone. Not bad, he said, i feel great about that. What do you make of these numbers, given all of this fuss . I think the numbers show it was too expensive. There are different ways to look at this. Apple made a lot of mo
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