last year has confessed his guilt in court three devices were detonated in the incident which injured defender marc botha suspects sergei v. as he's known is charged with twenty eight counts of attempted murder he has admitted responsibility for the explosions but to nice that he intended to harm anyone it is believed that he had speculated on a fall in the club's share price from which he had hoped to gain half a million euros in profit it's all your news for now it will be with you in just a moment he's got it fifteen minutes of the latest business news and you can find all or stories online of course at com thanks for being with. the d.w.

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saudi oil john di rocco to tech heavyweights like dropbox and lift analysts expect i.p.o.'s wasn't any stray a hundred billion dollars this year. also as the consumer electronics show picks off in las vegas we take a look at how digital assistants are making ever more inroads into a home. also bigger is not always better than israeli company is growing the smallest some also in the world that thrives even in the desert. this is the business as in berlin twenty eighteen is shaping up to get really exciting for investors a lot of companies plan to go public say the i.p.o. market may total two hundred ninety billion dollars this year let's have a look at who's going public their first and foremost we can see the largest i.p.o. in history worth up to one hundred billion dollars. as if saudi arabian oil mamas

aramco goes ahead with its plan to sell only five percent of its shares on global financial markets music streaming platform spotify is doing a somewhat less than an i.p.o. it's a direct listing avoiding dilution of already existing share spotify has already raised more than a billion dollars from private financing ride sharing company lyft just got a billion dollar injection from google parent company alpha bit but it's expected to go public at the end of the year to us cloud storage heavyweight dropbox is also expected to make its initial public offering in spring and there's one german i.p.o. of the horizon to siemens medical unit health than is raised at least five billion euros in march a little earlier i spoke to cry girl i'm from london and i asked him which i p o has captured his attention of in the one that stands out from a house to be saudi aramco due to the sheer size of the our i.p.o. itself is going to value the complete around two trillion dollars so the sheer size

of it is does make it the most interesting for me also the fact that there has been questions about whether it will float the oil price of course is a big influence in what the price will be and whether they can the more push ahead with it's clearly been an influential people reason behind the production cut that we've seen over the past couple of years so i think that's going to be very interesting want to watch throughout the course of the year and our report we've pointed out a few i.p.o.'s that lived in their b. and b. and others do you see any others that we might have missed them. well i think there's a number of smaller i.p.o.'s of the course that they share i think the one to watch to an extent is one that's not necessarily been confirmed yet i think there's going to be a few i.p.o.'s this year which may cultures of god's people of course are watching closely to who we know are plotting to float over the next few years so much speculated. that is the shave all over given the difficulties they had the shia twenty seventeen sorry the raw doubts about like something you want what you see is

alternately going to be one that we're not quite aware of yet it's a popular one that you've noted i think a lot of the old ones are much smaller and less interesting than foreign saws so watch out for the small ones in general craig where do you see stock markets go this year what do we need what's awful. some markets going to be very interesting the share of i think we are very much in the in a bull mach and i don't expect that to change we may see less substantial moves of the course of this year bull i think the key thing for markets this year is going to be politics because i think what we're seeing from ending's growth has been very impressive revenue growth as well we're seeing strong recoveries in the in europe for example which i think is going away the covert i think china is going to remain strong the one thing that could stand that is why is going to be politics in geopolitics we saw these risks arising over the course of twenty seventeen and even late two thousand and sixteen and i think that's going to be in the potential warning point that could destabilize markets this year although i do think this

year is going to be able the strong one for financial markets look forward to that one from zero on the in london thank you very much for joining us. after a consumer electronics show in las vegas a chinese star veiled its vision for the car of the future the company's name is by its own which refers to by its own wheels it's led by. forma b.m.w. insect bites on says the car will have a range of more than five hundred kilometers the battery can be fast charged with fifteen to twenty thirty minutes it will be available starting next year for forty five thousand dollars and names to compete with models. from ordering pizzas to checking your bank account all you have to do in future is ask your digital assistant but these devices also called smart speakers of only listen to everything you say also posset on to the manufacturer at the c.s. and as vegas. facing off with

a google assistant. the next time you're bored and happen to have a digital assistant why not ask if it's better than its competitors at least amazon's alexa and the google assistant are each determined to prove they are they're both going to be at c s and las vegas and what's being billed as a showdown first smart speaker technology but the jury is still out as to which one superior. personally you could bet on both and probably come out on top lxi definitely has this really strong sales and shopping environment and google just has so much data it's hard not to think they're going to come out on top but at the same time it still seems pretty even i think google assistant is the fun one . it's the wonder you can say play me a song have a laugh with you guys it's the one you want to go out for a drink with but then. lex is probably the one the more business in your the

one you see in your office the one that you have. in-depth conversation with but that's more likely to get things done than your mate down the pub. becoming the smart speaker of choice could lead to pretty payoffs the market is set to grow quickly in the next years as consumers increasingly turn to voice assistance to switch lights on recommend recipes and make calls analysts say a quarter of all household requests will be made through boys assistant and twenty nineteen provide news from n.p.r. news. still prefer the good old switch and all things digital of course take center stage in this big us on a local audio is making a comeback for uses of high end audio systems are cashing in on a resurgence of the humble recalled player actually not so humble it turns out because there really are people who will focus upwards of one hundred fifty thousand dollars for turntable system. streets brothers in arms some just like the feel others the sound record players in a game it doesn't have to be

a high end device for one hundred fifty thousand year olds but very unclear odio also includes much more affordable models in his range and can hardly keep up with demand you might have to get doctors no one would have thought that vinyl records would make a comeback and now we don't talk about comeback anymore records back more than ever growth rates have topped twenty percent a times once equal to. some turntables are driven by mortars designed for the space industry no time is spared and nothing's too expensive for the company's muster pieces it takes three weeks to make a top and player they are even earthquake proofed with a hundred kilo pendulum. swing if someone wants this kind of turntable in the yacht they can get it here because the pendulum consuls all the rocking of the boat and yet everything stays powell to the horizon is probably involved clear road your

generates most of its revenues with these one thousand three hundred euro models though which also require a delicate touch. year again the hardest thing in production is maintaining precision and it's the small steps with us like matching bearings adjusting bearings getting the pick up to sit perfectly in swivel they are small bits which can make a one thousand five hundred euro difference to a small player of let's say two hundred euros. worldwide only a hundred full of workshops make high end equipment the bavarians expect the current record boom to keep going for some time yet. in between times the family owned company also makes speakers and amplifiers as a fallback analogue records run out of steam but vinyl records can also be upgraded you. know what basis would though probably be better records than we have now

they are already working on new pricing processes i'd say even more music can be stored in a record there's a lot going on we'll get a version two record. defaults white. record players are feeling the future a clear audiophile. nies toys normally is the biggest vegetables that steal the show but now one israeli company has gone smaller than ever before it's called the has cultivated what could be the world's smallest tomato the newbery sized fruit battle the country's extreme climate and is already proving to be a hit. israeli company cadman have created the smallest in the country and possibly even the wild the so cool job some. extreme climates and dry conditions the desert only gets about three inches of rain

a year but the result is the wait to be precise it's already proving to be a hit with the food industry. and sweet taste. from the chefs point of view every new vegetable that comes out every special thing is adding even more to the dishes and more the atmosphere and more to the ideas we're getting there's an infinity of recipes we can do with a tomato. to be presented to the public at three day international agricultural in this month no doubt a successful day will be the cherry on top of the cake. for me and the business team here and we'll have an update for you in the next hour in the mean time. twitter and facebook or a website. business.

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