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in iphone sales as customers wait for the ten year anniversary phone. we talk you through the tech giants latest numbers. and as the french prepare to make their choice on sunday, we look at the contentious issue of immigration. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme, the impact of trumps visa review infosys says it will hire 10,000 americans. details in a moment. but first, apple is the world s most valuable company and it made another huge profit in the first three months of the year. but it was a bit of a mixed bag. the california based firm sold just under $53 billion worth of products as it continues to dominate the smartphone market. but surprisingly iphone sales actually fell by 1% mainly because customers are holding off purchases while waiting for the 10th anniversary model expected this autumn. they still sold over 50 million of them though and more of their expensive seven plus smartphone. apple shares were down 2% in a ....
yeah, i don t like anything on social media. joining us is kulveer ranger, vice president of strategy and communications at atos. how are you doing? is there much to like in the papers? i think we have a spread across the papers, starting with the financial times. what is the actual cost of brexit? this is the actual cost of brexit? this is the question on the dinner table, it appears, on good people discussing these things. conversations on the leaf. be polite, et cetera. leaks. the financial times is building on the story, there have been some leaks on a dinner with jean claude juncker and prime minister theresa may. the figure is 100 billion. to be honest, it seems a bit pie in the sky. michael barnier, the eu chief negotiator, said no figure like that would be put together until the end of the negotiations, which makes sense. if you look at the trade deals, the loans, the receipt of the uk has for europe, some of the rebates it might look at, this is a complex con ....
now it s time for world business report. to stay or to leave? yep, the big boss of one of the world s largest banks, goldman sachs, tells the bbc about his preparations for a world after brexit that s coming up in an exclusive interview. and are you ready for round two? it s a biggie for europe, with one of them being knocked out. yep, it s the last day of campaigning before france elects their next president. so we re going to look at how each one s plans to run the eurozone‘s 2nd biggest economy. welcome to world business report. i m aaron heslehurst. if you don t like waving hands and high energy, i suggest you switch the channel right now. the rest of you who are staying with us, thank you. the chief executive of goldman sachs has warned that london will stall because of the risks from the brexit process. lloyd blankfein told the bbc that the company was developing contingency plans to move some of its 6,500 employees out of the capital depending on the outcom ....
on the front cover. prince philip, it is announced will be retiring from public life and will no longer carry out royal engagements from the autumn, by which time he will be 96. probably time for you to retire, similarage? probably time for you to retire, similar age? laughter with me is alpesh patel who s ceo at praefinium partners ifill 91. you look much younger, i promise. i feel 91. emmanuel macron and marine le pen. can he do it? the polls and the journalists say he is in the league so get ready for a huge upset. the kiss of death. i cannot tell you what the french polls did last time but if you are in favour of brexit surely you want marine le pen to win, old fashioned divide and conquer. the people in favour of france leaving, from a british perspective is great. if they leave, the eu is finished. she wa nts to they leave, the eu is finished. she wants to leave the eurozone, not the european union. for now. but even from her supporters, the flip flopping from th ....
emmanuel macron wins the french presidency, but that may prove to have been the easy part. we assess how his en marche! movement hopes to tackle the huge problems of the french economy. and president trump wants to cut red tape to get drugs on the market faster, but the pharmaceutical industry is wary of presidents bearing gifts. so now let s focus on the business implications of that result in france. we ll look at all the market reaction as well in this of world business report. so, he got thejob. emmanuel macron is to be the french president. now the hard work begins. his first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. the outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. as we ve highlighted before on this programme france has had a high unemployment rate for many, many years. currently it is about 10% of the workforce, or 3 million people. that co m pa res ....