And its been a busy few days for the likes of apple, emirates and blackrock. Well be taking stock with our business guru theo leggett. Today we want to know, why are millennials not playing golf . The popularity of the sport is falling all around the world. Is it to expensive or does it just take too long . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. The government running the worlds biggest economy is staring a shutdown in the eyes. Thats what will happen if the United States congress doesnt agree a budget deal by the end of friday. Late on thursday, the house of representatives passed a short term bill to fund the government until february 16th but getting it through the senate is proving much more difficult. One major Sticking Point is the fate of 800,000 so called dreamers people who came to the us illegally as children and face the prospect of deportation. Democrats are using the budget talks as leverage to try and stop that. Then theres the c
Here in london. Im Francine Lacqua. Weve had some news for individual countries. Euro area march manufacturing pmi actually rising a touch, to 51. 6. Compared to a preliminary figure of 51. 4. That gain really comes from germany. Germany saying the manufacturing therising 50. 7 instead of 50. 4 we saw previously. We are getting the headlines from the pboc. We had some china gauge figures. The China Economy operation is stable. What we heard yesterday from s p, downgrading the chinese economy. Given the breaking news we had a couple minutes ago, lets check in on the markets. This is a picture for european stocks at the moment. The new quarter was fresh to clients. Down 3. 5 . Investors today really looking to key u. S. Jobs data for indications of the health of the u. S. Economy as stocks slumping also with oil. Oil at 40. 03. Nejra chinas official factory gauge is unexpectedly jumped, showing improving conditions for the first time in eight months. The manufacturing purchasing Managers