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World Business Report: First broadcast 2018/10/30 22:32 GMT: Facebook posts latest results

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Facebook posts latest results

First broadcast 2018/10/30 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 2018/10/30 22:32 GMT: Facebook posts latest results

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Facebook posts latest results

Facebook releases its latest results - and it's a mixed picture.

Facebook's latest results suggest things aren't going quite the way Mark Zuckerburg planned. The number of monthly users isn't growing as fast as shareholders would like, and Facebook's revenue is also not growing as fast as expected. We hear from Connie Guglielmo, Editor-in-Chief of CNET News. Italy's economy came to a standstill in the latest quarter, registering no growth at all. Nicola Borri is an economist from Luiss Business School, and tells us what impact the figures could have on the Italian coalition's planned budget. And we have a report from Barcelona, looking ahead to the latest economic update from Spain, due tomorrow. In the UK, prime minister Theresa May's government relies on support from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, because it does not have a majority in the House of Commons. With the Irish border a key issue in the Brexit negotiations, we find out more about the DUP's stance from Sammy Wilson, who is the party's finance spokesman. Plus our reporter Elizabeth Hotson  looks at the health of the burger industry in the UK.

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