Another huge quarter for Silicon Valleys tech titans. But can the likes of google and amazon keep on growing . Plus, Consumer Confidence up, Business Confidence up Stock Markets up. How long can the trump bump last . We take stock of the president s first 100 days at the helm of the worlds top economy. Welcome to World Business report. Begin me that 8. 5 minutes and i will give you an exciting snapshot of the world of business and money. Also coming up more surprises from President Trump as he vows to renegotiate the us trade deal with south korea. Well be getting the reaction from asia. But first. We start in Silicon Valley where three of the biggest names in technology have been reporting their numbers for the last three months. We are talking about the tech titans google, amazon and microsoft. And it seems they are just getting bigger and bigger. The numbers are jaw dropping, take a look. Kicking off with google. Along with rival facebook it dominates online advertising. But its sti
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little bit skittish about having to pivot to a new membership themselves but actually, that move paid off the netflix and they ended up seeing in the last quarter of 2023, huge subscriber growth. upwards of. that was the biggest quarterly growth number that we saw from netflix ever since the beginning of the pandemic, when a lot of people are staying home and could use that on screen entertainment. so a lot of those people who picked up new netflix descriptions moved into netflix s cheaper adverts inscription. it is neither netflix and it is a bit of a crowded marketplace with other streamers who also rely on advertising dollars. but broadly this is showing netflix s pivot back to a more traditional tv strategy because they are also moving more broadly enter licensing old content. that is
been recovering ahead of europe. but the continent is showing signs of recovery finally as inflation in the region continues to fall from last year s peak although better if not confident from the u.k. what s the latest from europe? 5.3% is the inflation print out of the euro zone itself. that does give the slight relief for the overall print and does point to the ecb, the european central bank, perhaps looking at it and saying to themselves perhaps we can see some betterment here. but there s warnings things will continue to be a lot more difficult. interest rates will continue to head a bit higher overall as well, so it isn t going to be just easy. but as you said an improvement in that growth number does point towards a slight recovery and a betterment overall for europe, so not doing as bad as some would have thought. arabile, the sale of beer is down in a big part of the world. tell us more.
still too high. peter maguire is the chief executive of axum australia and today he said he was expecting a weak growth number. it was expecting a weak growth number. , , number. it will be tempered urowth number. it will be tempered growth and number. it will be tempered growth and we number. it will be tempered growth and we are number. it will be tempered | growth and we are expecting around o.2% for that quarter, the first quarter, so that s where i think the water level will be, and we built on yesterday s rate rise of 25 basis points, the highest since april 2012. basis points, the highest since april 2012- apri12012. also inflation comini apri12012. also inflation coming on apri12012. also inflation coming on quite - apri12012. also inflation coming on quite high - apri12012. also inflation coming on quite high as| april 2012. also inflation | coming on quite high as a surprise, so is it inevitable that, as you mentioned, the economy, the growth could be slowing down?