and we look back at the past week in business, when us markets had their worst day since november, and the economy was the main focus in the uk election. that s all with our business editor, simonjack. we always want to hear from you. it s easy to get in touch with the programme just use the hashtag #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. it is friday, we have got that friday feeling. we start in france where the new president, emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. he now has to try and win a majority in next month s parliamentary elections and implement the economic policy he says can turn the country around. so what is macron economics and can it solve france s problems? macron calls himself ‘neither right nor left‘, he s a centrist, and, sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from the left, right and centre. he says his economic policy is based on the nordic mod
start of friday. and we will look ahead to wall street as well. the british prime minister offers to ensure the post brexit rights of three million eu citizens living in the uk. later we ll have a wrap up of this week s big economic stories with our correspondent andrew walker. research in the daily telegraph has found well qualified people who voluntarily talked about theirflaws injob interviews were more likely to win the role. today we want to know, what are your weaknesses? being gay perfectionist is not allowed! get in touch just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. being a perfectionist. always horrible when that question comes up. we will share hours with you later. hello and welcome to business live. we start with the price of oil, because once again despite the best efforts of the oil producing nations to prop it up, it is on the slide. let s show you what s been happening. this week the talks all been about this guy he s back. traders refer to a bear market when the
trade. more and more of us are globe trotting alone, we speak to the founder of one firm who turned her own terrible travel tale into a successful business. today we want to know about your travel highs and lows: tell us your stand out experience while travelling the world? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. the british government has unveiled its second brexit position paper, ahead of negotiations in brussels at the end of this month. this time, it s about minimising disruption at the irish border. northern ireland is the only part of the uk which will share a land border with an eu member state when the uk leaves the eu in 2019. under one option the government has proposed, there d be no customs border at all between the uk and ireland, enabling goods to flow freely between the republic of ireland and northern ireland. protecting the common travel area is key. thanks to the current arrangement, people can move freely between no
player in the space race. and as always all the market action. it was another record setting day on wall street. stay with us, we ll tell you why? also in the programme, finding a diamond in the rough! we ll meet the woman whose company is turning waste into energy. lloyds of london is banning drinking during work hours. today we want to know, is the liquid lunch a thing of the past? is it ever acceptable to drink during the working day? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to the programme. the eu s top economist, pierre moscovici, is visiting greece today to talk about the country s debt problem. he s trying to break the deadlock over the release of a further bailout. athens and its international creditors have been wrangling for months over the issue, and failure to reach agreement has spooked the markets. yesterday it was revealed that the greek economy unexpectedly shrank in the last three months of 2016. so what options does the country have? greece is now under inc
and the losers. also in the programme robots are increasingly taking ourjobs, but will it be good for the economy? our economics editor kamal ahmed will be here to discuss that and the latest on brexit. today we want to know, would you pay to tweet? twitter is considering a paid membership option for businesses and power users what do you think? use the hashtag #bbcbizlive. get in touch with us, we do love to hear from you. welcome to the programme. we start in the us, where president trump is battling to deliver on one of his biggest election promises, and to hang on to his credibility with investors. late on thursday, republicans were forced to delay a vote in the house of representatives on scrapping and replacing the healthcare reforms known as obamacare becuase they struggled to drum up enough support across their own party. mr trump is now trying to force a vote this afternoon, without knowing if it will pass. on wall street it s being seen as a key test of the trum