Asia for the latest. Here, the markets lower slightly, we talk you through the winners and the losers. And well be getting festive with fortnums. The boss of Iconic Food Drink retailer fortnum and mason will be here to give us The Inside Track on the busiest time of the year. And new Research Says using facebook and twitter at christmas will make you more miserable than merry. So we want to know are you taking a break from social media this holiday period . If so, dont do it yet let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Dont panic, it is december 20 seconds today, i said 23rd and i got worried because i have got so much to do worried because i have got so much to do we start on wall street, where it seems this chap has made an appearance because the grinch has, temporarily at least, stolen christmas. They have been calling it a santa rally and after a week of record closes, investors were expecting to celebrate the Dowjones Industrial Average hitting 20,00
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day to change their votes. how realistic is that? zero. it s been for many years, we get a rogue electorate here or there, and donald trump will get a majority and no chance of the electoral college being overt n overturn overturned. what is your take on the latest trump appointments? what do his picks so far tell you about how the administration might look? well, so far donald trump has picked a lot of people who, i think, are a comfort to republicans and conservatives that were nervous about how the administration would come together. he s ahead of where barack obama was in 2008, and so he will see who he picks for something as important as secretary of state and secretary of defense, and we are talking about the castro regime, and that will be a very
really tries to do. i think we all are pretty interested in that. molly, how are you reading into some of the possible trump appointments? we re hearing about john bolton, secretary of state, especially with all this talk about draining the swamp and being the outsider candidate. it seems like he is talking to a bunch of insiders. well, the interesting thing about john bolton is if you remember i was covering the senate at the time, george w. bush had tried to appoint john bolton as the u.n. ambassador and basically the senate democrats in charge at the time killed that nomination. eventually bolton was, you know, appointed via recess appointment. that said bolton has been kind of an outsider and it s really interesting given his remarks on the iran deal, we are going to see some interesting choices here. i think that it s really important that mike pence is heading up this transition team, though, because he has a lot of experience, he knows these players in washington, d.c., he k