And those trump promises pushing wall street to more record highs. And as President Trump orders a review of the financial rules designed to stop another nightmare on wall street, well be getting the inside track from our economics editor Kamal Ahmed On that and the rest of the stories hes been covering this week. As snow hits new york city, how much do you think it costs to clear an inch of the white stuff off the streets . One dollar . One hundred dollars . A Million Dollars . well give you the answer at the end of the show. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in the us where, as youve been hearing, japans Prime Minister shinzo abe meets President Trump later. Trade will be high on the agenda. Remember, one of mr trumps first actions as president was to withdraw from the 12 nation Trans Pacific partnership trade deal signed by obama and strongly supported by the japanese. Mr trump called it a terrible dealfor the us. He wants a fairer trading relations
for personal care products like shampoo and perfume and cologne in 2019, the lowest priced goods had about a quarter of the market for personal care products. now it s about 50% of the market, so it s doubled. clearly these trends show that because of high inflation, you know americans have just become a lot more price conscious. alright matt eagan. thank you, sir. appreciate it. thanks matt. president biden, awarding artists creators philanthropist with one of the nation s highest honors. guess who we get to be joined by so excited. the iconic vera wang is here. i love the metal to look at that. look at the medal. hi, there can t wait to see you. we ll talk to you after the break. and something that i have just for you. i ve conjured this up. i did it myself. what? i prepared a live look at the cherry blossoms in washington, dc caitlin s gonna tell you they bloom and then like snow hits and april and
sche scheduled nationwide. but the numbers of cancellations keeps going up and the pace is really quick. according to flight aware. 1570 flights canceled. o hare is number one. denver is number two. chicago midway is number three. in fact, one in every four flights here at o hare has been canceled which a huge problem and will have a nationwide ripple effect because this is a hub for american airlines and the biggest hub for united airlin airlines. just got a tour where they are trying to scramble to get connecting flights at different airports to save the trip and earlier in the week they were trying to advice passengers and listen to those who got out of here early before the snow hits. we thought it would be best to escape and get out just a little bit before to avoid the weather. we re mostly excited to be able to get to see the
growing by the moment. denver tops the list right now of airports with the most cancelations. then it s here. then it is chicago midway. this is such a crucial airport for connections, though. that s why this is going to have a nationwide ripple effect. it s a huge hub for american airlines. it is the biggest hub for united airlines. i went behind the scenes at united s network operations center to see how they are handling this. they are trying to make it so that passengers are being rerouted through other connecting airports. they did try and tell passengers to book early and change their flights to earlier flights and not depart today, as the snow hits. at least some passengers heeded that advice. we thought it would be best to escape and get out a little bit before to avoid the weather. it s chicago. it s o hare. we re used to this. it seems kind of crowded. it s pretty intense. but it s christmas. we came early enough to hopefully make it. and hopefully our plane will
having just come back from the u.n. climate conference, we re trying to share it with the world. thank you so much for coming on. i know you guys have a like a multi-day event that everybody is looking at, including in des moines so thank you for coming on and be safe. so the weather is impacting air travel and setting off a ripple effect across the country forcing more than 1500 flight cancellations so far. pete muntean is live at this hour at chicago o hare airport. pete, how is it looking? reporter: well, believe it or not, here, kate, the crowd has thinned a little bit. what you could take one of two ways. one that folks heeded the advice of airlines and rebooked to earlier flights before the snow hits in earnest, or two, that folks are simply finding out that their flights are indeed canceled. today was supposed to be the busiest pre-christmas day in terms of the number of flights