Miner and one of its top Power Generators talking about a 267r the could be worth billion. Rishaad noble facing another difficult day after its new york listed shares tumbled, it singapore listed stock at a 17 year low. Indeed, noble sure starting trading again, but lets start off with the big stories of the day. Sterling, the at election in the u. K. Taking place on thursday. What we have been seeing is that these terrorist attacks have not had that much impact when it comes to the polls, and indeed by influence, what is going on with sterling. Sterling has been beholding to the polls in a different sense. Show how as the labour party has been doing better in recent weeks, recent days even, we have seen of oars weakness for sterling. True when we had of course the pound weekend for the tories, so an inverse relationship if you will. It seems these terrorist attacks do not have a huge political implication running into that thursday poll. Side i suppose the other you could look at in t
2. 14. Our road map begins with apple and new product announcements. Did we see anything that would move the needle . Plus a big change at j. Crew. Mickey drexel is helping down. New chief executive coming from quest elm. The president taking to twitter ahead of congressional meetings today. Lots of buzz surrounding apples answer to the amazon echo and google home, the new home pod unveiled at apples Worldwide Developers conference. Heres tim cook making the case for that product. We have such a great portable music experience, but what about our homes . We think we can do a lot to make this experience much better. Just like we did with portable music, we want to reinvent home music. Jim, we got the ar kit, we got amazon on apple tv, but home pod really stole all the headlines. I have the logitech music system. I have the Harmon Carden music system and i have the echo. I would tell you that the echo is really great. You can talk to the echo, but i talk to my wife. I dont need to talk t
The march figure was revised slightly to 3. 17 billion, a slight revision upwards. The aussie dollar falling on the back of those numbers. Imports fell 1 . The big weakness was exports, down 8 . We did get a sneak preview of that when we have the balance of payments current account, net exports would be a big drag on gdp, and that turned out to be the case. Result,a disappointing ,. 5 to recap the big mess billion dollars surplus as opposed to the 2 billion expected. Rishaad i will get it from here. Of course we have the market open in hong kong could lets get the sophie. More disappointing data on the economic front for asia and japan. The aussie did hit a onemonth high with the gdp update, that basedgains looking capped on softer economic momentum. It includes the aussie dollar on course for a second week of losses. At the equities markets, the asx 200 still lower, down. 2 . Taking a look at chinese stocks, the shanghai composite down. 1 at the open. We do have a strong rebound on th
And it is the biggest gaming event of the year. We will take you e3 in l. A. But first, to our lead, after years of speculation, apple is finally lifting the hood on its car ambitions focusing on the , technology that makes autonomous driving possible. For the first time ever, apple ceo tim cook spoke about apples car ambitions in an inclusive interview, and also discussed the companys outlook on china. Take a listen. Tim china, for us, we make our decisions for the longterm, and so we are not investing for next quarter or next year. We are thinking about many, many years out, and as i stand back and look at china, i see megatrends there that make china an incredible market. I dont just mean a market to sell in. I also mean a market for Application Developers. We have 1. 5 million Application Developers in china now, probably closer to 2 million now. So it is an incredible marketplace for talent and in terms of the size of the marketplace. So, the shortterm kinds of economic moves up a
And it is the biggest gaming event of the year. We will take you e3 in l. A. But first, to our lead, after years of speculation, apple is finally lifting the hood on its car ambitions focusing on the , technology that makes autonomous driving possible. For the first time ever, apple ceo tim cook spoke about apples car ambitions in an inclusive interview, and also discussed the companys outlook on china. Take a listen. Tim china, for us, we make our decisions for the longterm, and so we are not investing for next quarter or next year. We are thinking about many, many years out, and as i stand back and look at china, i see megatrends there that make china an incredible market. I dont just mean a market to sell in. I also mean a market for Application Developers. We have 1. 5 million Application Developers in china now, probably closer to 2 million now. So it is an incredible marketplace for talent and in terms of the size of the marketplace. So, the shortterm kinds of economic moves up a