And working on the move. We hear how the man behind regus serviced offices turned his quest to find a Flexible Workspace into a multi billion dollar empire. And if you struggle with recycling, youre not alone. The worst products to recycle have been named and shamed so we want to know what are your Recycling Frustrations . Get in touch use the hashtag bbc biz live. Send us your comments about that. My question is whether you can put envelopes in recycling if they have the plastic window . Hello and welcome to Business Live. For months, optimism about the Trump Presidency has been powering markets to record highs. But late on wednesday the trump bump turned into the trump slump as us stocks and the dollar suffered their worst day since before the election. Its down to growing concern that the president s promised tax cuts and pro business reforms may never materialise, as the white house battles one controversy after another. Lets show you the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average f
sustainable energy efficient committee, if we re going to build affordable housing unit, how are you going to do ta? you re going to impose the billionaire tax paying their fair share once and for all. are you going to send businesses overseas? no, we re going to invest here. how are you going to transition to force businesses to say america s not a friendly place to do business because of these policies? i think that mentality has it backwards about why businesses want to invest in america. they want to invest for the workforce. for the consumers here in america. in the most entrepreneurial environment in the world. and if you can take health care coverage off of their plate, you re going to grow more entrepreneurial spirit out of american entrepreneurs out there and so i believe strongly that medicare for all is a pro business agenda. i want to get one more policy in, but i m getting the wrap so item going to ignore my produ
trump but said he s got a pro business agenda for a ceo like me, that resulted in a massive boycott boycott. now that these companies have left, what could happen on the other stid? quit the council is done. what s the next one? buy their stuff? we praised the folks, especially the ones that left early and, you know, we of been doing this at color of change since about january where we started with behind the scenes conversations before we hit corporations public i and tried to push them and give them a chance. as more and more things continued to happen and donald trump gave them no sort of gifts in terms of his day in and day out news cycle of what he was saying, we kept going back to these corporations and saying and they are sick of getting your calls and mine. sick of getting calls and saying, hey, what are you going do? so when we as we launched this campaign, we gave more and more people the ability to engage, the ceos started calling us and said if we leave or their
through is to stop the president from lifting the sanctions. you ve taken legislation action against the president lifting sanctions and just told me jeff sessions should stay as attorney general. you re just not capable of criticizing donald trump for anything. what are you scared of? i m not scared of anything. i believe in the president s mission and goals and we support that because we have to. we have a rare opportunity to fix some of the problems that ail this country. we re working on that in the house, remarkable record of achievement no one wants to talk about that sir, hold on sir if you would like to speak about the economy, we can. one of the main drivers in pushing the economy forward, president trump was handed a strong economy. he then promised a pro business agenda involving infrastructure spend and deregulation, none of which we ve seen in a significant way. i remind you, one of the main drivers oh in the stock market surge beyond business sentiment
that we ve heard about the president being unhappy with his staff, worried that there could be a shake-up, investors are starting to wonder who s going to be left standing if heads roll and who s going to have his ear. and how is he going to get the stuff that he wants to get done. we saw that health care didn t go down as well as they thought. then they came out with a proposal that was written on one page for tax reform. tax reform is a very difficult thing, takes a year and a half to two years to get done. so there s real worry that the agenda items won t get done. think about it. it was a pro business agenda, those promises, that excitement. are those promises going to get fulfilled. we re going to find out. and where s the president? he s in the middle east. president trump kicked off his first road trip, his trip abroad, since taking office. in all places, saudi arabia. he s there announcing hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons sales. but the trip itself is a big break