The moment. Traders across europe are waiting on the speech from the leader of catalonia today. Expats sending money home can add hundreds of billions of dollars to a countrys economy, especially in developing nations. Well be speaking to the man behind worldremit, the tech company specialising in worldwide remittance. With the global cost of obesity forecast to hit more than a trillion dollars we want to know how you would tackle the problem of bulging waistlines . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Please send us your comments on the issue of obesity, automated, france, strike action, you name it. We have got lots in the programme today. Lets get started. Deja vous france is braced for mass strikes and protests today. Civil Service Unions have called on their 5. 4 million members to take to the streets. So whats got them marching this time . Theyre angry about massive job cuts in the Public Sector 120,000 positions are to be axed over the next five y
Hello, im Christian Fraser in paris. Katty kay is in washington. There are important stories on both sides of the atlantic. Very shortly, we will turn to the heated debate last night and television between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. We will talk to guests in paris as well. Before that, lets focus on washington. In the next few minutes we will have Breaking News as republicans start to vote on repealing and replacing 0bamacare. Yes, the House Of Representatives will start that vote shortly. There seems to have been some glitch. We expected it in the last few hours. It isa expected it in the last few hours. It is a vote on president 0bamas most important legacy. President trump promised to get rid of it. In the end of those members of congress are taking a vote, not knowing how much the Replacement Bill would cost are Many Americans will lose their health insurance. Here is a democrat and republican. Any Health Care Bill that came to this floor should be about expanding coverage
Is to forget their local election success. Leave no door unlocked. Ahead of next Months National vote. Good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am guy johnson alongside tom keene in paris. Mark barton is in london. Quite a night. Quite a night. I was at the champselysees having a beverage of my choice. It was a champagne. It was fabulous and the excitement, it was not packed streets but there is busy streets with the usual celebration that you would expect in paris. It went well over 90 for mr. Macron. Guy it is going to be a fascinating story. It does not run out of momentum because people are already talking about kind of how he turns this victory and consolidated into the National Assembly. The challenge is by no means done. Timothy we will have much of that coverage tom we will have much of that coverage. He has to go to june 11 and the beginning of the monetary and elections to see if a macronled government, or if it is a coalition. Guy well see what the next five years wil
From your. You also have some figures. Mark we have some german Business Confidence data crossing the bloomberg terminal. The latest survey, the business 112. 9 was the figure, up from the prior month. And above the economist estimates of 112. 4. German Business Confidence is increasing the expectations of the components of that. Expectation was for a figure of 105. 9. The German Economy is in good shape. As is the euro zone economy. As we approach the ecb meeting on thursday, it is all about the first round of the french residential election. Look at the cac 40 today, 4 higher, the biggest gain since august 2015. We are at the highest level since april 2015. The euro rising as much as 2 since december 2015, to the highest since november. 108. 50 seven. The yield on the french 10year is down by 10 basis points, and earlier fell as much as 11 basis points, to the lowest since january. Proof that appetite for riskier assets we have gold falling 1 today, sinking the most in more than seve
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