Beating the establishment. The outsider defeats the former Prime Minister in frances socialist primary runup. Does this give more ground to the independent candidate, Emmanuel Macron . Toyota the worlds bestselling automaker. How will looming trade barriers affecte the sector . Matt less than half an hour until the european open. Take a look at futures writedown. You at futures right now. Futures are off after equity markets declined. Chinese and various other asian markets are closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, and i would are better advised to focus on other Asset Classes today. At currencies, commodities, treasuries what do you see . Guy lets run through the columns and talk about whats happening right now. What we are seeing most prominently, matt, is the dollar beginning to firm up. Earlier on it was down. Now it is barely budging. More than 1 10 ofha 1 ,. 13 now. Some dollar weakness but not a lot. Theyen is up by around. 3 , swiss franc is having to look out for as well. We
Market action as investors wrap up another trading week. And well be getting the inside track on Global Economic challenges and the threat of protectionism words of warning from the imfs boss Christine Lagarde. All this and more with our economics correspondent andrew walker. And do you shop on the internet . Online shoppers in the uk spend more per household than consumers in any other country. We want to know what you buy online. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in france, where the shooting in paris has interrupted final campaigning in what was already being called the most unpredictable president ial election in living memory. Centrist favourite Emmanuel Macron and far right Marine Le Pen look likely to go through after sundays vote to a run off on may 7th. But they are closely followed by conservative Francois Fillon and far left candidate Jean Luc Melenchon who cant be ruled out. Socialist benoit hamon, though, is being given little chance of ma
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