Markets. And well be getting the inside track on one start up that is taking used batteries and giving them a second life. As the boss of United Airlines, we wa nt to as the boss of United Airlines, we want to know when have you wished youd apologised sooner . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. As south africas president jacob zuma celebrates His 75th Birthday, the festivities may be rather more low key than usual. In less than a week, the countrys members of parliament are scheduled to hold a vote of no confidence against the president. Why . It comes after he ousted some of his key political opponents in a recent cabinet reshuffle. Today, members of the public are expected to take to the streets in protest at the move, but mr zumas decision also has big implications for the economy. South africa has been downgraded to junk status by two of the leading debt ratings agencies, fitch and s p. They argue that the reshuffle will hamper the countrys efforts to manage
White houses counsel. Hes a Legal Adviser to donald trump. Hes the former chairman at fcc and the thing that you need to know is hes someone thats getting money out of politics and hes someone with limited national experience. One of the important things about serving in that role and you are called that thats going to be the real challenge for mr. Mcgahn going forward. Of course, there is been a lot of question of potential Conflict Of Interest for the President Elect trump because of his vast business entanglement. The white House Counsel is going to neat to spend a lot of time digesting the President Elect
need to do when he gets into the white house, it is a rule thats going to be very important going for him. Donald trump is coming into the white house with unprecedented business ties. There is going to be questions about the Conflict Of Interest and don mcgahn will be the person will be giving donald trump of the advise of what he can and cannot do and how he should separate hims
heinz and the other big players that have noticed that you ll still buy when they raise their prices because prices are going up for them as well. but they seem to be on a string here indicating in the case of clorox and kraft heinz that these are worries down the road. not so much for hostess. they re out with numbers that beat expectations. the inflation is there. they don t miss them and they re not ignoring them. they expect people to still buy goodies even if they do go up. our retail analysts is here. some companies have the hostess mindset that prices go up, we pass it along. no problem. we don t like it, but we can deal with it. others not so much. where do you see this going? yeah, depends on the company, neil. if you re looking at a company that produces product like hostess in these individual
in a very tough position when you know that republicans aren t done yet, this president is not waiting around. he must to push ahead on infrastructure, he was to push ahead on immigration. we ll see if democrats want to come and partner with us, but right now, there s a lot of momentum for republicans, the wind and ourselves. it s a good position to be in heading into 2018. if you re a democrat having to run by saying i want to take money out of your pocket and put it in uncle sam s. since the year 2000, i have been hearing forever how retailers are going straight down the drain and today i spoke to two retail analysts who have been telling this for decades and they said things are looking up and i haven t heard that and a long time, so i am encouraged as well. so good to see you both. adam, thank you so much. mark lotter thank you. still to come, former nfl star tarrell owens says there s one thing keeping him and colin kaepernick out of the game. wait until you hear who he blames.