more than 80% up on the year before. ofjune, hitting 460,000 cars it s now well on its way to its goal of 1.8 million for 2023. the rise came after tesla cut prices in the us, uk and china, in a bid to boost sales and compete with rival manufacturers. jim holder is an automotives expert and joins me now. good to see you. it seems that cutting the price of something it means demand goes up. it is not rocket science, but it is the kind of elusive sales figures that tesla has been after for a while. absolutely. this is great news for tesla, after a very hard into last year, particularly in its new chinese market, where it has been trying to push sales. but of course, pushing prices down bush s margin is done, and i think what we are all looking for is whether they can maintain profitability now. for the car industry, that has traditionally been a huge problem. pushes margin down. it s caught everyone by surprise, but everyone is watching very closely now, but sales figures
of millions of accounts. ray wang is a principal analyst of constellation research, explains why threads could be a serious challenge to twitter. this is a massive threat. if you think about twitter, it only has about 150 million active users. if you see what is going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking the 2.96 billion users. let s put this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we use to say mass adoption of technology has occurred. facebook live dated 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get to 50 million users and probably less than 2a hours. i can pick it to 150 million euros in less than two months. it s a direct threat to delay or stop light at the same time, some of the users are not happy with the recent restrictions like the number of tweets that you can look at. why is elon musk doing this is yet? you don t normally musk doing this is yet? you don t normally have - musk doing this is yet? 7m. don t normally have that musk doing this is yet? 7m, don t nor
and over in china their indicator on manufacturing is also due out today. it covers small and medium sized companies which should give us insight into how china s public sector is doing. private sector. on tuesday australia s central bank will be meeting and investors will be watching to see if authorities will hold steady or hike the cost of borrowing because of inflation concerns. earlier, i spoke to peter maguire of xm.com and he said he expected to see movement from tokyo on the japanese yen. i think there would not be surprise. they have done it in the last matter of six or eight months as far as intervention when it approaches the 145 150 sort of handle, so, yes, we won t be surprised to see intervention sometime injuly. where you are, australia s central bank will be meeting this week as well. it is kind of a tricky balancing act for them, isn t it, dealing with inflation, whether or not to raise interest rates? what are you expecting? well, exactly right. i mean, yo
beijing. china has slapped export controls on two rare metals used in the manufacture of semiconductors. the move by the chinese ministry of commerce targets the metals gallium and germanium. china is a major producer of both. from august, exports of these metals will require a licence. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to berlin, and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship, but she has got her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said he was imposing export controls on two rare medals essential for making semiconductors. the measures are seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions for tub gallium and a germanium the two mentals in question, wi