0:00:17 > 0:00:19Hello.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21This is Business Briefing.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25I am David Eades.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Personal data on 57 million Uber customers and drivers were breached
0:00:28 > 0:00:31in a hack attack that Uber concealed for more than a year.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34And it's budget day here in the UK, but what measures will
0:00:34 > 0:00:37the Chancellor of the Exchequer present to bolster Britains's low
0:00:37 > 0:00:38productivity?
0:00:38 > 0:00:43And let's just look at the markets for you, today. The Nikkei back on
0:00:43 > 0:00:53the screen here. Hang Seng up. That all the of record highs in at the US
0:00:53 > 0:01:11as well. Green, green, and green.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Now, Uber has confirmed that it concealed a hack that affected 57
0:01:14 > 0:01:14million
0:01:14 > 0:01:15customers and drivers in 2016.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18In the wake of the news, Uber's chief security officer
0:01:18 > 0:01:23Joe Sullivan has left the company.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26As is often the case, it will likely be the cover up that
0:01:26 > 0:01:29proves more bothersome for Uber than the hack itself.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Companies are required to disclose significant data breaches
0:01:31 > 0:01:33to regulators, something Uber has, by its own admission,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35failed to do in this case.
0:01:35 > 0:01:45Our North America Technology Correspondent Dave Lee has more.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49The huge breach included names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers
0:01:49 > 0:01:54of 57 million people around the world. The information was obtained
0:01:54 > 0:02:02by two who accessed a server Uber were using to stood data. Many
0:02:02 > 0:02:09drivers also had their licences stolen. Uber Pavey hackers $75,000
0:02:09 > 0:02:12to delete the data. But they did not contact anyone whose information was
0:02:12 > 0:02:19put at risk. It is understood that Travis Calen it knew about the
0:02:19 > 0:02:23breach in November last year, but it is only now being made public on the
0:02:23 > 0:02:27orders of the new boss. None of this should have happened, he said. The
0:02:27 > 0:02:30company's admission that it failed to disclose the bridge comes as Uber
0:02:30 > 0:02:37is seeking to recover from a series of issues that resulted in the
0:02:37 > 0:02:44former CEO losing his job in August.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47UK Chancellor Philip Hammond will deliver his Autumn Budget today.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50One of his challenges will be to combat a decade
0:02:50 > 0:02:50of flat productivity.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Until 10 years ago, productivity was the motor that drove
0:02:53 > 0:02:58UK economic growth.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02This blue line is output per hour.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04The straight line is the actual measure -
0:03:04 > 0:03:08and this broken line is what it should be at if the trends before
0:03:08 > 0:03:09the crisis had continued.
0:03:09 > 0:03:17So it's a pretty big difference.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Instead, the typical rate of growth in the last five years
0:03:20 > 0:03:21is only 0.2%.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23The presumption was that the underlying factors linked
0:03:23 > 0:03:31to the financial crisis would eventually improve.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33But so far productivity has remained stagnant.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Other European countries are faring better.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Germany is 36% higher than the UK and France 30%.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42And there is a correlation between productivity and real wages.
0:03:42 > 0:03:53In 2013, the OECD compiled how much people actually have to spend -
0:03:53 > 0:03:56in France it's this, compared with Britain.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58That's a $3000 difference.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02That is a lot of money.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04With me is Margaret Doyle, Deloitte head of Financial Services
0:04:04 > 0:04:05Research.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10Thank you for joining us. Those are frightening figures, are they?They
0:04:10 > 0:04:14are. And that is something that Philip Hammond has explicitly
0:04:14 > 0:04:19acknowledged and pointed out. In fact, in his spring budget, he said
0:04:19 > 0:04:23this is be that we need to address, and it is something that the
0:04:23 > 0:04:28government has already said, that they will put aside a £23 billion
0:04:28 > 0:04:33fund designed to help boost productivity in the long-term.That
0:04:33 > 0:04:37is key, the long-term. This does not happen overnight or even in a year
0:04:37 > 0:04:43or two. This is big infrastructure stuff.Yes. It takes investment is
0:04:43 > 0:04:48now, and could take years to come through. Years ago, Germany was
0:04:48 > 0:04:55considered the sick man of Europe. But they implement and these have
0:04:55 > 0:04:58helped to make their labour market more flexible and help to boost
0:04:58 > 0:05:04their productivity. Economists would say that this dates back to the
0:05:04 > 0:05:081950s and 60s, and some would say that it dates back to the 1930s and
0:05:08 > 0:05:16the days of imperial preference, when the UK shifted supply lines. It
0:05:16 > 0:05:21is not a silver bullet, but you need to start somewhere.But you
0:05:21 > 0:05:25mentioned Germany, and the third weight. They had money they were
0:05:25 > 0:05:28prepared to put in the pot. That is not Philip Hammond's position, is
0:05:28 > 0:05:35that?That is an interesting comment. Britain has a long
0:05:35 > 0:05:40borrowing rate. -- low borrowing rate. This is a good time for the UK
0:05:40 > 0:05:43to borrow money when it has the ability to go out into the markets
0:05:43 > 0:05:48and to do so. And there are investors that you could make a bit
0:05:48 > 0:05:52in transport, bid in other forms of infrastructure, like broadband, be
0:05:52 > 0:05:57it in skills, and those are the investments that will pay off more
0:05:57 > 0:06:02than we are paying in other markets at the moment.So people will see
0:06:02 > 0:06:06the benefit of doing, but he was asked if it would be a big, bold
0:06:06 > 0:06:10budget, and he said it would be balanced. It would be a surprise to
0:06:10 > 0:06:15get a major announcement.Yes, it clearly he has announced it and that
0:06:15 > 0:06:19he wanted to bounce. He is pushed out out further than George Osborne
0:06:19 > 0:06:23said, so he has given himself some Woodville Road. We have a degree of
0:06:23 > 0:06:27uncertainty over the impact of Brexit, so therefore I think the
0:06:27 > 0:06:31Chancellor will try to keep something in reserve so that.I will
0:06:31 > 0:06:36just jump in for a quick tip for something we should look for in the
0:06:36 > 0:06:42budget.I think we will hear something on housing. The Prime
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Minister signalled that she recognised that housing was an
0:06:44 > 0:06:49issue. We see it is a big issue for younger people. It is very
0:06:49 > 0:06:53expensive. We have a lower home ownership for young people. That is
0:06:53 > 0:06:58something we should expect to see this afternoon.Very good to see
0:06:58 > 0:07:01you. Thank you very a much indeed.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05After Tuesday's record breaking close on Wall Street,
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Asian markets have followed suit.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Let's go to our Asia business hub where Sharanjit Leyl
0:07:10 > 0:07:12is following the story.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17I am here particularly to talk about the Hang Seng in Hong Kong. It has
0:07:17 > 0:07:22been called something of a Hang Seng high. The benchmark equity index
0:07:22 > 0:07:28their rising over 30,000 for the first time in a decade. That is
0:07:28 > 0:07:35shares of companies like Tencent, China's biggest social network. It
0:07:35 > 0:07:40has surpassed Facebook to become one of the top five most valuable
0:07:40 > 0:07:44companies in the world. Because its value has rallied, it is now worth
0:07:44 > 0:07:52over $5 billion. It is popularity surged especially due to its games,
0:07:52 > 0:07:56and some of these have the number of players that they make up the size
0:07:56 > 0:08:01of countries they Germany. You have other companies like and ensure
0:08:01 > 0:08:06whose value has jumped 26% over southern of its digital expansion.
0:08:06 > 0:08:15No surprising news to see this in Hang Seng. There has been a rocky
0:08:15 > 0:08:21ride in the last decade, so this is a shift.Thank you for joining us,
0:08:21 > 0:08:31Sharanjit Leyl, with a rosy two coming from the east. -- rosy hue.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36Let's head to Dubai now - the so-called City of Gold.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Traders there buy and sell $75 billion worth
0:08:38 > 0:08:40of the stuff every year.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Part of the reason for its success is that gold is untaxed,
0:08:43 > 0:08:44and therefore cheap.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47But from the start of next year, the government will be levying tax
0:08:47 > 0:08:48on gold sales.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Some worry this could dent the market.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51From Dubai, here's Jeremy Howell.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Dubai, a place to buy and honourable goal. But behind the bleeding in the
0:08:55 > 0:08:59windows, changes on the way. Gold traders have been told that from the
0:08:59 > 0:09:04start of 2018, they must charge value added tax at a rate of 5%.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Some are nervous about what that might mean for business.People, you
0:09:08 > 0:09:14know, they are not ready to pay. The goal is ready at higher price. The
0:09:14 > 0:09:20price of the tax will be more. Business will come down, definitely.
0:09:20 > 0:09:26It will fall by 15%- 20%.People come to the actor won gold market
0:09:26 > 0:09:30from all over the Middle East and India. Arguably the largest group of
0:09:30 > 0:09:35single gold buyers in the world. $75 billion worth of gold is bought and
0:09:35 > 0:09:43sold in Dubai every year. Mostly thanks to these gold tourists. But
0:09:43 > 0:09:47all of these gold tourists will be all to get all their money back.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51They will get the 80 refunds at the airport. But still, it could be a
0:09:51 > 0:10:00shock to the system. Because this would attack in Dubai is unheard of.
0:10:00 > 0:10:07-- VAT refunds. The message to all those involved in the business from
0:10:07 > 0:10:10their trade association is not to worry.The concern is not there. We
0:10:10 > 0:10:15will still be the most competitive in variety, purity, quality
0:10:15 > 0:10:24product...Dubai's gold market does have rivals in India and Istanbul.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28The Dubai sales tax will still be lower than in either India or
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Turkey. And nowhere else can match the souk for the sheer opulence of
0:10:33 > 0:10:37its jewellery displays.
0:10:37 > 0:10:43Opulence is the word, isn't it? That is Business Reading for this hour.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47In a last look at the market. Vinicius flat at the moment. The
0:10:47 > 0:10:54Hang Seng is up again, with ten year highs there. -- the Nikkei is flat.
0:10:54 > 0:11:13And that is the business briefing to Europe.
0:11:14 > 0:11:20Different types of alcohol change and cheap -- change in shape your
0:11:20 > 0:11:24mood in different ways. A recent survey had found major link between
0:11:24 > 0:11:28types of alcohol and the emotions they create. For a double, spirits
0:11:28 > 0:11:32were associate with feelings of aggression. Red wine and beer were
0:11:32 > 0:11:40related to feeling relaxed. Had you feel when you drink?
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Sleepy or ruddy? Excited, or maybe careful? The on-line global drug
0:11:44 > 0:11:49survey without my nearly 30,000 young adults suggests that what is
0:11:49 > 0:11:52in your glass is linked to your mood. Spirits are the strongest
0:11:52 > 0:11:58link. More than half associated drinks late June, Rome, and vodka,
0:11:58 > 0:12:02with competent Zen Energy. But nearly a third link them to
0:12:02 > 0:12:05aggressive feelings. The survey said a feeling of relaxation was linked
0:12:05 > 0:12:10mostly to red wine or beer. The researchers say varying alcohol
0:12:10 > 0:12:13levels in the beverages might be having different impacts on the
0:12:13 > 0:12:17brain.Younger people in particular were more likely to report a
0:12:17 > 0:12:20stronger emotional connection both on the positive and the negative
0:12:20 > 0:12:26side. It also women were more likely than men to report different high
0:12:26 > 0:12:30levels of emotional outcomes, if you like, with different drinks, except
0:12:30 > 0:12:34for aggression, where men were more likely than women.The study shows
0:12:34 > 0:12:39only an association. He cannot prove different drinks alter moods. And it
0:12:39 > 0:12:42did not assess our motions before they started drinking. The
0:12:42 > 0:12:48researchers describe their work as an initial exploration and say
0:12:48 > 0:12:51understanding the relationship between drink and emotion could help
0:12:51 > 0:13:04tackle alcohol abuse. Des Gallagher, BBC News.
0:13:05 > 0:13:21-- James Gallagher.