Bps shares rising nearly 3 on that news of a return to profit. Also in the programme. Well be getting the inside track on. How you turn one massage and spa centre into an International Business of beauty. As the head of The World Bank forecasts a dramatic rise of robots in the workplace, we want to know what could it mean for yourjob. Would you work with robots . Maybe you do already. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. One of the worlds Biggest Energy companies, bp, has Just Announced its latest results for the First Quarter of 2017. And as expected its delivered much better news thanks to the rising price of oil and some effective restructuring. Using the oil giants preferred measure of underlying replacement cost profit, the First Quarter of the year came in at 1. 1; billion, a healthy improvement on the 485 million loss it made the same quarter last year. This year bp plans to sell off around 4. 5 billion worth of assets as part of a Gl
Thats turned french politics upside down now is the last chance for the two president ial candidates to appeal for voters before the polls open on sunday. Well get the inside track on the last week of the contest and ask how much the winner can achieve when they get into office. No specific question today. Just letters know what you think of the programme. Be nice just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. The head of the American Investment bank Goldman Sachs, has warned that britains Financial Centre the City Of London will stall when the country leaves the European Union. Lloyd blankfein told the bbc that the bank had Contingency Plans to move staff to mainland europe, depending on the outcome of brexit talks. At the moment Goldman Sachs employ 6,500 people here in the uk. The bank is due to move into a new premises in 2019 as it tries to bring all its london staff into the same building the stakes are high for Goldman Sachs. It has around 3a,000 staff worl
Losers in europe, on the they are all up. Also in the programme, well get the inside track on a smartwatch that allows parents to keep tabs on their children. But is wearable tech really the solution to Parenting Problems or just a technology too far . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Please get in touch with your views on that story about parenting, wearable technology, or anything else we are covering. South korea is just a few hours away from finding out who its next leader will be. The election comes after the former President Park geun hye was removed from office as part of an Ongoing Investigation into corruption. The countrys economy bounced back strongly following the 2008 financial crisis, but in recent years, quarterly growth has struggled to break above 1 . What are the president ial hopefuls offering to try to change the fortu nes offering to try to change the fortunes of south korea . The current frontrunner moon jae in has vowed to b
To stay on hold of a record low of 0. 25 . And the company that created photoshop, well be speaking to the boss of the Software Firm adobe, shantanu narayen. Today we want to know, do you use snapchat . What do you use it for . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. I know that tanya is a user of snapchat, i have seen the selfies and we start with snap, the Company Behind the messaging app snapchat. It lets you send photo messages that disappear after a few seconds. But it seems the confidence of investors has gone missing almost as fast. Snaps shares plunged in after hours trading on its first set of Financial Results since that huge Flotation Back in march. Snap lost 2. 21 billion in the first three months of the year. Thats way more than the same time last year. Why . Well, mostly because of huge pay outs to staff with Stock Options in the flotation. But heres the number investors are really looking at. By the end of march 166 Million People were using snapchat every day. Tha
And we look back at the past week in business, when us markets had their worst day since november, and the economy was the main focus in the uk election. Thats all with our Business Editor, simonjack. We always want to hear from you. Its easy to get in touch with the programme just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. It is friday, we have got that friday feeling. We start in france where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has to try and win a majority in next months parliamentary elections and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is Macron Economics and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left, hes a centrist, and, sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from the left, right and centre. He says his Economic Policy is based on the nordic model. Whats that . Basically,