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make grooves with because boning stephanie stole. the party chat with musicians from around the world. groups starts february second on. the phone. demand for i phones drops taking out bills of revenue along with it but not everyone at headquarters seems to think this is bad news. also on the show a remote bulgarian village is attracting throngs of chinese tourists are looking for nothing less than the secret to eternal life. and a butcher in germany goes whole hog to stay in business as customers and his tiny village. welcome to your business update i'm

joined in in berlin thanks for joining us alcohol has announced that demand for the i phones continued to slow over the holiday season the result a fifteen percent drop in revenue over the previous year apple blamed a weakening demand in china its second largest market after the west and blowback from the trade tensions between beijing and washington the american tech giant is also facing stiffer competition in china from holden brands like wall way and shall be however it wasn't all doom and gloom and cupertino apple's services sector saw market improvement last quarter. so what's going to be out strategy from here our correspondent in frankfurt christian brits went in search for answers demand for apple's i phone has dropped so is the company is still on the right track with me here in the frankfurt trading

floor is one feel good digital strategist to talk strategy when and minus fifteen percent revenue is the apple i phone just too expensive now. it definitely is too expensive they have to sort out how much consumers are willing to pay for a smartphone and i think they have reached the limit there frankly. so how can apple adapt what can it do to make more money well the biggest thing for a at the beginning is to extend and expand their digital services. movies software services which is extremely high margin and they have not even entered markets like movies and t.v. productions yet and we see with amazon prime and that flicks that this is a highly profitable way and on the other hand some price adaptions for the next upcoming i phone models should be should have a positive effect as well so diversification but still around sixty percent of its

money the company still makes with hardware it's a can it really get that shift done quickly enough well there are other options like gaming consoles we've had rumors about acquisitions there as well so high priced gaming consoles in combination with software services is something that apple can definitely provide in a premium quality so this could be an expansion and the other services definitely will take time to cover all that you know missing revenue but they will find a way to transform themselves one market that's been very weak for apple is china is that strategy also going to win back chinese customers and can it maybe push out the competition will cha it china is a very very important highly competitive market an i phone it's a kind of fetish device it's high priced everybody who owns an i phone is considered to be a very successful person but in an economical situation and with exchange rates being not so positive from consumers they just might be too high price wise to

consume us dept ing and buy other stuff so price policy plus exchange rates will be very important to watch in the next quarter. you heard it from digital strategist at chalon partners thank you moving away now from the frankfurt trading floor and turning towards wall street where our financial correspondent yens carter has more on apple yes welcome now apple shares at nearly five percent up despite slowing demand for the i phone what's going on there yeah that's actually really stunning by the end of the day it was the biggest winner in the dow jones industrial it was a gain of almost seven percent well maybe one reason is that some of the mixed results were already priced in the stock had lost or on thirty percent since the last earnings reports from early november we also had revenue

warning earlier this year but the report was certainly not picture perfect but also lowered the revenue guidance for the current quarter but the wall street obviously had expected worse. and it's not just in the earnings season that's kept investors' minds occupied how has the fed decision to keep rates steady been received there where you are. that had a huge impact by the end of the day traded up by more than four hundred points and reserve pos the twenty five thousand point mark once again and some of it was due to the first meeting of the federal reserve in trainee nine especially the wording of made the big difference that the federal reserve did not increase interest rates was north surprised at all but they did eliminate the forward guidance of some further gradual hikes so that is not in the wording anymore and it got replaced by

the new buzzword patience so it does not sound like the federal reserve is going to increase interest rates anytime soon at the same time fed chairman powell was quite optimistic that the us economy overall is on the right trick he ends carter there on wall street for us thank you younes for your analysis of the economic slowdown in china has struck e-commerce leader alibaba its net profit increased thirty seven percent and the latest quarter that's the slowest expansion in more than two years a far cry from the fifty to sixty percent growth that's used to gains in cloud computing and other businesses managed to offset hits to its core business online retail as a result were closely observed for signs of the u.s. china trades taking its toll on the chinese consumer goods sector. now the search for eternal life can lead you to unexpected places like the

bulgarian village of munch a lot see it's home to what's become a very popular product and a tourist attraction in its own right if you've never heard of lactobacillus dog erica well it's next or part may just change your life. see lies in the middle of the bulgarian rideau p. mountain range near the greek border. recently signs in chinese of here more and more chinese are traveling to this bulgarian mountain and they're all interested in just one thing the now famous lactobacillus bulgaria because your great culture but why. story and sugar of has been living in mom to see for ninety four years now he's famous television teams from bulgaria china and brazil have already interviewed him

they all want to know why he's lived so long. doing so well here because we eat a lot of young good because the vibe here without cows milk sheep's milk or goats milk just meat the milk and the yogurt made from it to exist that's why i've lived so long. and that's exactly what the chinese want that's why the states run bright dairies t.v. ads talks about the life prolonging effect of mom to love to see ya get. into action she meet cool news she sees things. in mom she love to see we meet the dairy farmer a tanna so off he still remembers the first delegation from china eight years ago they took a very close look at how he produces milk and yogurt and asked about the secret of bulgarian york it. has secrets very

simple on the one hand the animals feed on the mountain meadows and on the other hand we have a very special breed of cowards which give less milka the much better quality their milk is fatter than. and chinese yogurt fans have been coming to the bulgarian rideau p. mountain range since then. following the path of a long life they know from t.v. commercials. there's even a big young get festival every year with almost five thousand visitors from china they're here to find the secret to a long life the little. now for centuries sausages have been a staple of german cuisine but eating habits are changing especially the classic small town but your shop is becoming a rare model across the country but in one small german town that's forcing the

local butcher to get creative. at this hotel in southern germany the owner hopes his guests will soon be snug as sausages in their beds with visions of cured meats dancing in their heads. and the butcher themed hotel is the brainchild of butcher close berber. he's banking on the popularity of the word versed the german word for sausage for his hotel success what else is the vorst is for me the most well known term in the german language abroad i can see vorst in the united states or an english speaking countries but also for customers from asia voice is for them a word you don't need to translate to. burgle hopes his seven hundred thousand euro investment will help keep his tiny butcher shop in this village alive . butchers were once a fixture of small town life but in germany they're struggling. competition from discomfited chains is taking

a bite out of the profits and germans are increasingly turning away from meat meat consumption is down by nine percent since one thousand nine hundred but google shop still has its fans. but i find it good that small companies manage to do well especially since. in my opinion they sell better quality products which taste better make over a thousand butcher shops closed in germany last year. hopes his sausage hotel while his shop stay a cut above the rest. and that's your business update thank you for watching.

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