BBC News - Foxconn shares up as Apple products pus | |
Title: | BBC News - Foxconn shares up as Apple products pus |
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Description: | 31 October 2012Last updated at 03:20 GMT Foxconn shares up as Apple products push up profits Shares of Hon Hai Precision Industry, a major assembler of Apple products, rose after strong iPhone and iPad demand lifted income. The Taiwan-based company, which uses the trade name Foxconn Technology, saw its stock rise 2% in Taipei. Hon Hai said its net profit for the first nine months of the year rose 24% to 57.8bn Taiwan New dollars ($1.9bn; ?1.2bn) compared to a year earlier. This is despite rising wages in China where it has most of its factories. Although the company does not make public how much of its profits are dependent on business from Apple, analysts say it is a significant amount. Apple said last month that it sold more than 5 million iPhone 5s on the first weekend it was made available. However, working conditions at its factories making Apple pr |