Plane was shot down by an Iranian Missile. Boris johnson agrees with that view while ron dismissed the theory as not possible. Weekassets and a volatile with futures pointing to gains again today. Gulbis trading back where it was before u. S. Iranian tensions flared. Clearer picture today the payrolls number can show a rebound after a strike at gm skewed results in october and november. December is typically a job losing month. Larry kudlow joins us after the event. Jon ferro will talk to him. 2 30 p. M. London time. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at the futures. They are up across the board after we saw gains on almost all european indexes yesterday. The ibex 35 was down. Everything else had green arrows. A new high on the s p 500. We still see u. S. Futures higher as well after those records were hit. It looks like investors are willing to go further into risk on territory. What you see on the gmm . Gmm, before we get
Also in the programme two big australian firms stop buying cotton from china, over concerns about mass human rights abuses by chinese authorities. And squabbling staff and bickering bosses. Theyre bad for the business and team morale. We hearfrom one boss whose found an honest solution to keeping the workforce in top gear. And well be getting the inside track on a plumber turned purveyor of fine tipple. How a chance discovery of a century old illicit distillery led to a business making Award Winning gin. And today as hollywood celebrities admit they are hypocrites for backing extiction rebellion despite jetting round the world, we ask, does it matter . Is the Climate Crisis too big not to back. Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. A warm welcome to our new business show, and we start today with brexit. As in the last hour there are fresh doubts about an agreement and this has sent the pound tumbling. Britain and the eu are locked in di
Welcome to do business asia i want to go to be with us chancellor Angela Merkel says germany will make relations with china a key issue during its 2020 year presidency she says europe needs a unified policy on china the worlds 2nd biggest economy its also germanys largest trading partner a crucial market for its cost of machinery brussels has taken a tougher line on beijing of late describing it is a strategic competitor germany takes over the rotating 6 months your presidency in the 2nd half of next year. For more lets cross over to our Financial Market correspondent all the bars are standing by for us in france furred well in other form our economy minister of germany said the difference between europe and china was that china has a plot is germany now trying to catch up here. I think so markel sounds like she at least has the idea of a plan and she wants to tackle that when she takes on the presidency as of july 2020 and the time is right the partner u. S. Is involved in a trade con
Furred all in how the former economy minister of germany said the difference between europe and china was that china has a plan is germany now trying to catch up here. I think so Angela Merkel sounds like she at least has the idea of a plan and she wants to tackle that when she takes on the presidency as of july 2020 and the time is right the partner u. S. Is involved in a trade conflict with china and its threatening europe as well theres a w t os spat over airplane subsidies with the United States so Angela Merkel has a case to move closer to china and i think also playing a role is that as the e. U. President she can set the agenda for her presidency and get people on board for what she has and planned i mean this is of course going to be the big challenge because what machall also says is that europe is lacking a joint china policy how realistic is it to get one. Was extremely difficult if it were easy we would have already had a joint policy chinas already a major player but it wi
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