Flash Briefing: Alphabet disappoints; Mabula's fugitive owner to be extradited; Bond kind dethroned; Canadians buy HMV

In today’s global business headlines…… Alphabet shares fell 3% in after-hours trading after the company which owns Google last night delivered quarterly results with disappointed. The celebrated career of 74 year old fixed interest market guru Bill Gross has come to an ignoble end. British Prime Minister Theresa May heads for Northern Ireland today in a two day effort to arrange an acceptable divorce with the European Union. In South African related news, owner of five star Mabula Game Lodge in Limpopo, apparent billionaire Vijay Mallya, has lost his battle against being extradited from the UK to his native India.