Update: Google's parent company releases financial results - a podcast by BBC World Service

Alphabet which owns Google and Youtube has released its latest quarterly results which show advertising revenue rising at an unexpectedly sharp pace as we hear from the New York Times' technology correspondent, Mike Isaac. And consumer confidence is up, according to The Conference Board, an independent research group; Kathy Bostjancic from Oxford Economics tells us why. Plus, Joe Saluzzi from Themis Trading in Jersey brings us a markets update.

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