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. Im 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 worlds 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 after hours trading but th
kind of crazy online. people as you know yesterday the iphone 10, latest greatest tenth anniversary phone from apple went on sale and people went crazy at 12:01 pacific, 3:01 a.m. eastern. you try to order it now, you ve got to wait until december, 5 to 6 weeks to ship out any phones that are available now. people, of course, taking advantage of it by posting on ebay average price about $25,000 right now. you want the phone for that early release time of november 3rd, which is next friday is when people will start getting that phone. abby: i got the 8 plug, i went through the whole experience, exchanged my new phone. why did you do that? [laughter] abby: why do i need to pay that much more for the 10 when i have everything because it s that much more of a phone. it s really crazy great. let s jump to this, though. in this iphone 10 you will end up with your old phone, right, what did you end up doing?
record day on wall street. all three major eindexes hit highs. mnuchin says he s hopeful tax reform will happen this year. he says the administration may make tax cuts retroactive. apple introduce ago trio of new iphones including a premium version worth about $1,000. it debuted its iphone x. the anniversary phone has an edge to age screen, scans your face to log in. if customers don t want to spend a grand, apple unveiled the iphone 8 and 8 plus. middle class americans got another raise last year. a record more than $59,000 last