i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us wall street did well today after stocks took a hammering yesterday positive earnings reports are driving the trading including from tesla which is back in the black for the first time in two years the production ramp up for its model three saw the u.s. electric car maker posted net profit of three hundred eleven million dollars in the last quarter calling shareholders nervous production of the model three had been delayed by technical and logistical problems while tesla has been marred by controversy involving c.e.o. elon musk. our financial correspondent yens court is joining us now with a view from wall street to tesla's numbers finally boost its long term outlook in the eyes of investors. well that's probably too early to tell wall street kind of knew what was coming already two days ago when announced that the numbers will come out actually earlier than originally expected and wall street was well aware that this can only mean that must had some pretty good news for investors one reason why we saw the biggest profit so far in

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us the u.s. economy beat expectations in the third quarter on the back of the strongest consumer spending in nearly four years the commerce department said gross domestic product the total values of goods and services produced increased by three and a half percent from a year earlier the sharp rise in spending help offset a big drop in trade companies spent more to increase their inventories which also helps all sort of growth analysts are expecting the economy to expand by around three percent this year and we're joined now by our financial correspondent in new york korda yens another quarter of solid growth in the u.s. donald trump is looking like the business friendly president that he advertise themselves to be. you know if we look at the entire year if we're really going to read a good three percent of growth we haven't seen anything like that since two thousand and five so in thirteen years i mean first of all we shouldn't forget that us president inherited a pretty decent economy the econo

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin welcome plastic may be cheap for producers but it's become an environmental menace now the e.u. parliament has voted through a ban on a range of single use plastic products environmentalist say it can't come soon enough. the mountain of waste on land and waterways and seas continues to grow the e.u. currently recycles only a quarter of the twenty five million tons of plastic waste it produces annually now european lawmakers say urgent action is needed to tackle the problem you need yeah eight billion tons of plastic produced in less than sixty five years six billion tons of waste the figures speak for themselves more than four billion tons for europe alone socials have become dust bins and they are dying on the plastic accounts for more than eighty percent of marine waste its slow decomposition means the traces are often found in marine life as well as the seafood that ends up in supermarkets under the proposal ten single use plastic products would be banned did i addictive aims at bending certain single use plastic products with alternatives available and af

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i'm stephen beardsley with your business report the u.s. is facing pressure over its arms deals with saudi arabia following the killing of dissident journalist the us president donald trump says the stakes are too high to cancel the agreements but the actual figures that is the amount of money and the american jobs they create are hard to pin down. intent on protecting arms deals and economic ties with saudi arabia president donald trump has so far rejected sanctions she's normally only too happy to impose. but i would prefer that we don't use retribution cancelling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work which means six hundred thousand jobs but as the global outrage at the kitchen sink killing mounts so to trump's numbers. i don't want to lose the big. i don't want to lose one hundred ten billion dollars in terms of the best but it really four hundred fifty big and if you could cut the military so many jobs is it and how much cash is trump overstating because the silence is deafening the u.s. is giving the impression it's so depende

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us today is the tenth anniversary of bitcoin founded at the outset of the great recession the cryptocurrency was supposed to usher in a digital revolution in payments just about a year ago at the price of one of its life before coming back down to earth now today there's still a lot of hope and decline and plenty of hype sometimes even those who want to are really sure how it works. in the heart of moscow there's a small and conspicuous shop it may look normal but inside it's a different world the world of bitcoin. there are a fake chocolate bitcoins as well as virtual bitcoins on servers for many of the crypto currency remains a great mystery even though russia produces more bitcoins than almost any other country. with ways to quit the good yeah actually customers come to us and say i want but i don't know what it is and here like in an apple store we explain to them that it's possible to make bitcoins on these machines they're told that they can buy it or equip themselves to make it anywhere. and i feel like. the crypto currency is cr

i'm stephen beardsley with your business report the u.s. is facing pressure over its arms deals with saudi arabia following the killing of dissident journalist the us president donald trump says the stakes are too high to cancel the agreements but the actual figures that is the amount of money and the american jobs they create.

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us the u.s. economy beat expectations in the third quarter on the back of the strongest consumer spending in nearly four years the commerce department said gross domestic product the total values of goods and services produced increased by three and a half percent from a year earlier the sharp rise in spending help offset a big drop in trade companies spend more to increase their inventories which also helpful sort of growth analysts are expecting the economy to expand by around three percent this year.

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin welcome plastic may be cheap for producers but it's become an environmental menace now the e.u. parliament has voted through a ban on a range of single use plastic products environmentalist say it can't come soon enough the mountain of waste on land and waterways and so.

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us wall street did well today after stocks took a hammering yesterday positive earnings reports are driving the trading including from tesla which is back in the black for the first time in two years the production ramp up for its my.

i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for joining us wall street did well today after stocks took a hammering yesterday positive earnings reports are driving the trading including from tesla which is back in the black for the first time in two years the production ramp up for its model three saw the u.s. electric car maker post a net profit of three hundred eleven million dollars in the last quarter calling shareholders nerves production of the ma.