Even though it might be a happy new year, not so happy in risk assets. Second down day. Dropping the most in more than three weeks. Caution coming into equity markets and risk assets here at the end of the year. Most currencies gaining against it. Edging out. Yield same dynamic where money is moving out of equities but also out of bonds. The10 year yield, it was arrest the stock the financial world. Carlos ghosn was put on trial in japan. Allegations that he denied. The former head of nissan said he fled to lebanon to escape injustice and political persecution. Lets bring in will. Great to have you with us. Carlos ghosn has been under house arrest and was allowed out on bail in april. How did he manage to get out of japan under such heavy surveillance . Surveillances is in the right term for this. Its a mystery. Has his threed he passports so perhaps he escaped from japan using a different name, different passport. But he was under very tight surveillance, house arrest since april. Ver
That has killed 2,700 people on both sides. Israel has launched a relentless aerial campaign against hamas militants and cut off food, water, and electricity. It says the group is hiding beneath gaza and has called on residents to evacuate as the military makes extensive efforts to avoid harming civilians. The United Nations says roughly half of gazas population has been given 24 hours to get out. It says thats not enough time to avoid devastating humaneitarian consequence. Nhk captured footage of people fleeing gaza city on friday. A team on the ground says people there including nhk staff received recorded messages by phone urging them to head south. The calls appeared to have come from the israeli military. The warnings come after hamas launched a surprise attack against israel last saturday. More than 100 hostages were taken into gaza. The militants claim at least 13 of them were kill by israeli air strikes over the last 24 hours. Meanwhile u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken s
2023 to Marges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. The Selection Committee said shes a Freedom Fighter whose struggle has come with personal cost. Shes been senanced to a total of 31 years behind bars and 154 lashes in prison. It said their motto of womenlike freedom expresses her dedication and work. Former u. S. President donald trump reportedly shared classified information about u. S. Nuclear submarines with an australian businessman in april 2021. That was after he left the white house. A report on u. S. Television network abc on thursday quoted sources as saying the former president may have revealed the information during a meeting at his maralago estate in florida. Trump allegedly mentioned the supposed number of Nuclear War Heads u. S. Submarines routinely carry. The report says he also revealed how close the vessels can get to russian submarines without being detected. Abc news reported u.
Blockchain is shaking things up at oldschool giants. Inis now creating new life the stalwarts like ibm and oracle. Betty david, bitcoin was up, apple down, right . You saw some of that in asia yesterday, the apple suppliers getting hit on speculation about the numbers coming in far short of forecasts, in fact to 10 million shorter than what some analysts had predicted. I want to pull up a chart that you are familiar with. This is a 254. It shows you the Revenue Breakdown 8254. It shows you the Revenue Breakdown by segment and shows you how important the iphone revenue is to apple, but that decline we have seen a bit worrisome. This replenishment cycle really going to turn out to be the way apple believes it will be with the iphone x come or is 1000 the breaking point . David that is a lot of money for a handset. Betty yeah. David you look at these numbers and forecasts, you mentioned 10 million short. Coming out, may be shipping 35 million handsets in the First Quarter, still a big num
Economic data. We have the Chinese Industrial province. This dovetails into what is happening with the story in the morning and what it will mean, phenomenal gdp. Matching statistics, they are profitg in november and growth is expected to edge down to 25 year on year in october from 27. 7 in september and we have continued to eke slightly in november but lets see where we come from. We were seeing profits under some pressure. At the moment, it is that at the moment. Growth in the pipeline. Some more movement. , as those numbers are out look at what is going on elsewhere. We have markets back online today following the christmas break and taking a look at what is going on with shares in singapore. Recovering from tuesdays drop. ,hey are resuming gains marginally higher this wednesday and following the text want. That is in focus and snapping a. 1 of thep gaining open. Lets check in on the supplier in taipei. In that stock under pressure and falling for a second day. That forecast being