06/01/2017 World Business Report


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Samsung's on track for its best profit in years and pledges to put

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The boss of Sony tells us why goods and information must

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Also coming up, Mr Trump locks horns with Toyota over plans to build

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In the last few hours South Korean tech giant has said it's on track

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for the best quarterly profits in more than three years.

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It's a major boost for the company after the exploding smartphone

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scandal that put a serious dent in its reputation.

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In the three months to the end of December, Samsung is forecasting

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That's up by half on the same period last year, much better than expected

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That might come as a surprise as we know Samsung was forced

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to scrap its top of the range phone, the Galaxy Note 7, after a spate

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Hugely embarrassing, and hugely expensive.

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It has warned the scandal sent more than $5 billion of profit

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Samsung makes chips and screens for the whole tech industry.

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Samsung hasn't revealed the details but it's thought to have been

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the best quarter ever for its semiconductor division.

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It makes the complex chips that are more and more in demand

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as phones get smarter, and the prices of those have jumped.

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So despite the exploding phone scandal, Samsung's investors have

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had a pretty good year, shares up by almost 50% over

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We'll be hearing from an expert on all this in 20 minutes' time.

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Tim Baxter said at the consumer Electronics expo in Las Vegas said

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they would find out what happened and put it behind them.

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As you know, this year was a challenging year for Samsung.

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Some of you were directly impacted and certainly many saw the media

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coverage, especially about the Note 7.

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We continue our intensive efforts, internally and with third party

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experts to understand what happened and to make sure it does

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And very soon we will be sharing the root cause report

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of Pelham Smithers Associates is here.

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Great to have you here, thanks for coming in at this horrible hour.

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This is an interesting company, I think of it like Amazon, when we

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think Amazon most think online retail and when we think of Samsung

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weakening of phones and TVs but both companies make big chunks of money

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from other areas. Amazon with cloud computing and these guys make it

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from chips. Chips, screens, yes, stuff like that. In a good year if

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everything was perfect they would make most money from phones. That

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and the semiconductors. Semiconductors is the perfect high

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pressure, everything is going right, they are getting their processing

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chips into phones from companies like Apple, they are getting their

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the UNs into their laptops and their flash memory into handsets -- the

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UNs. Are the UNs chips... For the flash memory they have not gone down

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anything like as much as they normally would, some chips you

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expect to fall 30 or 40% a year because you are making so many more

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and you are making more... If the prices don't come down and you make

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40% more from the same wafer as you made before, that is glory days.

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That adds to the profits. You mentioned Apple, I don't know if

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many people know but they are just huge competitors and all they do is

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this but if you open an Apple iPhone, Samsung chips are inside.

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It's amazing that they have to work together and compete. A new phone

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for Samsung, a big deal next month? That is what is planned, it is a

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moving feast right now because there is the world Mobile Congress in

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Barcelona and normally they make it available for that and that's what

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they are trying to do this year but because of the adverse publicity of

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the Samsung Note 7 they have to get this right but fortunately for them

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this is different from the Note. In the UK you don't see the Note ari

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much because it is more like a PDA with a pen, it is much more popular

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in Asia, the Galaxy -esque is much more popular in the UK and Europe.

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-- Galaxy S. They are hoping the audience for the Galaxy S won't be

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au fait with what happened in the Note and they will be happy with

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their previous Galaxy Less, as long as they get the publicity right it

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should be successful. We will wrap up there -- Galaxy S. Thanks for

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joining us. We are also at the Consumer

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Electronics Show in Las Vegas where the world's top technology

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bosses are showing off the latest This week the show's organisers have

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warned that sales of technology They think political uncertainty

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might weigh on peoples willingness Our correspondent Rory Cellan Jones

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spoke to the boss of Sony, Kazuo Hirai, and asked him

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how concerned he is, particularly about the policies

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we may get from a Trump presidency. I think that the best course of

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action at this point is really to see what presidential elect Trump

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and what his policies will actually be after he's inaugurated and how

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that's going to impact things like the TPP for example or the

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continuation of NAFTA. And we'll have to deal with the policies he

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comes up with at that point and it's difficult for us to second-guess

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what he's going to be doing. He's appointed a lot of Hawks when it

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comes to trade, does that worry you, would it be bad for Sony and the

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rest of the global economy if things like the TPP and other big trade

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treaties basically were stalled? We are a global company and we

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manufacture globally as well. So obviously it's very important that

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free trade is something that we keep an eye on and also the other

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important thing for us is really to make sure that currency fluctuations

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are kept to a minimum so that all the currencies are stable and we are

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able to plan ahead and make the investments were appropriate. We're

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about to see a new president, Donald Trump, do you have concerns about

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what that means for trade in particular? I think it's not just

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President elect Trump but all world leaders, including obviously the

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leaders of Japan as well, this is a global economy and the free flow of

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goods, information, is something that is part of our lives today and

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to try to overregulate that I think it is not good for business.

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There you go, the big boss of Sony. I am plugged back in and I can hear

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the voice of God! Let's stay with President-elect

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Trump, because he has been whipping up a storm

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on Twitter once again. I will quote, "Toyota Motor said

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will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build

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Corolla cars for US. Build plant in US or

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pay big border tax." American car companies have faced

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harsh criticism from Mr Trump for building cars more

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cheaply outside the US. So how is this latest episode

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going down in Asia? Sharanjit Leyl is following

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the story for us in our Asia It's having quite a big impact on

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its shares, in the Asian trade the Nikkei, we saw Tiote shares falling

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3% when the market opened this morning but it has since recovered

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-- Toyota. It shows the influence president Dole might be

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President-elect has in terms of his tweets and when he first tweeted

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this in the US, the American depository fell, wiping $1.2 billion

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in value in just five minutes after he tweeted that. -- it shows the

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influence the President-elect has. The chief of Toyota said they had no

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plans to curb manufacturing in Mexico and he said that employment

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numbers would not decrease, he said Toyota was the smallest importer of

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vehicles from Mexico to the US in 2016. We know the company has plants

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in the US and they continue to target US carmakers, his tweets, and

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we saw Ford's decision to cancel plans for a $1.6 billion plant in

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Mexico. The first time I have seen you this week, Sharanjit, so happy

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New Year! Don't forget you can get in touch

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with me and some of the team I will be back in a few minutes to

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look at some of the papers from around the world. Bye-bye.

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Bed blocking in the NHS in England has become significantly worse

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in mental health trusts than in acute hospitals,

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