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Live from London, that's our top story on Friday the 20th of January.

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Slashing taxes, talking tough on trade and ripping up

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America's President-elect promises double the growth

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Plus his arch rival China confirms its weakest growth since 1990,

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with fears of even tougher times ahead.

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And given the inauguration today, one word dominates the markets,

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that's caution. And we'll be getting the inside

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track on the mining industry. The founder and chairman

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of one of the world's largest mining companies -

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Vedanta Resources - will join us. We'll get his thoughts

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on the Trump presidency, and likely drivers for

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commodity prices this year. And we also want to

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know your thoughts - Are you optimistic or pessimistic

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about the new leader of the free Or dump! Welcome to the programme.

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Lots going on, we've got that Friday feeling.

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Later today Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President

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The billionaire businessman has gone from long-shot candidate

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to the leader of world's biggest economy in just a year and a half.

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His supporters will now be hoping that he can shake up the US economy

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in the same way the he shook up the presidential race.

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Let's take a look at some of the details that we know.

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He has promised to create 25 million jobs over ten years,

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and to double the annual rate of economic growth to 4%.

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He's promised to take a tough line on trade -

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and on countries he sees as undercutting US workers

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He's threatened to slap a 35% tariff on Mexican imports and a 45%

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tariff on products from China, raising fears he could

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One thing at the top of the list that we know he has said:

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the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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He also says he'll cut America's high corporate taxes -

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which have pushed big US firms to offshore a lot

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Critics say this is too expensive, and will help big companies rather

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And he also promises... A lot of promises!

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He promises to free up business by ripping up red tape -

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he says 70% of all federal regulations can go.

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He hopes that will encourage firms to keep more jobs in the US

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The markets certainly like the approach, and the so-called

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Trump Rally saw the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average rise

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Laura Tyson, Professor at Haas School of Business,

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University of California Berkeley and former Chair of the US

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President's Council of Economic Advisers joins me

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Thank you for joining us. 25 million jobs in ten years. Can he do that?

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25 million jobs over ten years is actually an estimate that I think

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probably keeps up with the demographics of the labour supply,

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and is not a number that is out of range given a 10-year time horizon.

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There were something like 22 million jobs, I believe, during the Clinton

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Administration, I think. So that number is not the number I would

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look at. I would look at the growth rate number, which I think is not

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believable, the 4% growth rate. Talking about jobs, we saw some

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figures saying the US has lost about 5 million jobs since 2000, but 80%

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of that is due to automation rather than jobs being outsourced

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elsewhere. That's right. And I don't think people really understand that

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point. I do think the voters understand that. I think that any

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reassuring that occurs in the United States -- re-shoring that occurs.

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While they might have 20 workers to do a job abroad, they only need five

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in the United States because of automation. Typically after a 2-term

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president, typically a recession follows after that. I don't think

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that there is any theory which would suggest that to be the case. In the

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US economy, we have had a long period of economic growth, we have

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brought ourselves back in many parts of the country to follow employment.

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We still have the secular problem of employment creation that we talked

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about in terms of technology. I do think that is going to continue, but

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the economy is not right now, there are not obvious imbalance is, which

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would suggest that there would be a recession, so I don't buy the notion

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that there will be a certain period of years before you go into

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recession, whether or not there is a period of change in administration.

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I think you look for in balances in the economy. He has also suggested

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major tax cuts for corporations, will be enough to bring offshore

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back to the US? I do think one thing with certainty, thinking about the

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economy over the next year and several years, we will start with

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what we know for sure. We know for sure that the Republican Congress

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with the president will introduce significant tax cuts, personal tax

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cuts and corporate and business tax cuts, and there will be a need given

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the tax cuts to make sure that there are not large differentials between

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various forms of business taxes like pass through taxes for corporations,

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and corporate tax, so all these rates will come down. The president

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has proposed a very aggressive cut in corporate tax to 15%. Businesses

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have been looking for rates in the mid-20s, so 15% is a very low rate.

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One thing I would say about all of this is that there really is a

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tremendous reduction in the source of revenue for the Government, and

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that then is associated with lots of cuts in various spending programmes,

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so I do think that you are going to see for sure significant cuts in

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taxes. A cut in the business tax rate, the corporate tax rate, will

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almost certainly bring more investment into the United States,

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more capital investment, so one of the things that has been true about

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the economy is weak capital investment. Thank you very much your

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time this morning. It looks cold! Good snow. Says the lady who just

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got back from skiing! Let's look at some of the other stories making

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headlines all around the world. President-elect Donald Trump's

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choice for Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, has faced strong

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criticism during a Senate Mr Mnuchin is a former Goldman Sachs

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banker-turned hedge fund boss He faced accusations

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that his former bank, OneWest, ruined lives during the US property

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crash by foreclosing But he told the Senate Finance

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Committee "I have been maligned". Uber is paying $20m to settle

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allegations that it duped people into working

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for its ride-hailing service. The US Federal Trade Commission said

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Uber offered false promises about how much drivers would earn

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and how much they would have The agreement covers statements Uber

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made from late 2013 until 2015 while trying to recruit more drivers

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to expand its service and remain You are sitting down, you are doing

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it! I am doing the tablet. It is all about Trump today. We asked you

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start if you are optimistic or pessimistic about the impact you

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think trouble have the global economy. Already have some! This

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reader says, I am cautiously optimistic, another one is

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pessimistic. Some others also saying that they are very pessimistic.

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Let's wait and see. I'd lots on the tablet from both sides, as well. Now

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let's talk about the second biggest economy in the world. Official

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growth figures out of China. And they confirm that last year

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China's economy grew at its slowest pace in more

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than a quarter of a century. The growth rate hit 6.8 per cent

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in the last three months of 2016 - but that gives an overall rate

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of 6.7% for the year - The figure is in line with Beijing's

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official growth target Robin joins us from Shanghai. Do we

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trust the numbers, and what I really want to ask you is, if Trump sticks

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to his promise and causes a trade spat with China, that is probably

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the last thing the Chinese economy needs? Yes, on that first point, do

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we trust the numbers? There is always scepticism, but let's set

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that to one side for now. These numbers are bang on what the Chinese

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government have predicted. The trend of the slowdown continues, it is a

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managed slowdown in growth that the Chinese government want, and that is

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their overall aim. Looking to next year, we can look to see something

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in the low 6%, perhaps. But the bigger picture here as you say is

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that China is preparing for a Trump administration where it doesn't

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quite know what he will do. We have had the rhetoric, but there is fear

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about a trade war and possibly about a physical, military confrontation

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in the South China Sea. The main concern for the Chinese government

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is domestic, it is about trying to transform the economy here away from

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being one reliant on government money on exports, we saw a big drop

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in exports in those figures, and make it instead an economy driven by

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domestic and consumer spending. Robin, have a good weekend, we will

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talk to you soon. Let's stay with the markets.

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Caution is the key word on the markets around the world

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as we all await for the 45th president of the US to be sworn in.

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Even China's economic growth which beat expectations and Federal

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Reserve Chair Janet Yellen who toned down her earlier hawkish policy

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stance hasn't been enough to give a real boost.

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They are waiting to see what Trump and his team put together in terms

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of economic policies. So on that note - I wonder

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what'll be making the biz US financial markets have been

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jubilant ever since Donald Trump's surprise election win, hitting a

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series of record highs. Now that he is about to be sworn in as the 45th

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President of the United States, will Mr Trump continue to make markets

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great again? Stocks initially rallied on the hope that the

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incoming administration would deliver an campaign promises to

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rollback regulations, cut taxes and spend on infrastructure. Lately they

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have been trading in a narrower range, someone in investors have

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been too focused on the upside, and haven't given enough thought to the

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potential negatives. At present, Wall Street doesn't seem to be

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anticipating problems either with Mr Trump was my trade policies or in

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terms of delays by Congress. Will that view change once he takes

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office? And on the corporate front, watch out for earnings from the

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likes of General Electric and doctor and Gamble.

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Thank you, Michelle. Joining us is Lawrence Gosling,

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editor in chief at Investment Week. Thank you for coming in this

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morning. The husband a lot of noise around the markets, Theresa May

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outlining Brexit, the Chinese president in Davos, Trump's

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inauguration, but underneath all of that, how other markets doing? There

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is an outbreak of what you call a traditional business cycle but

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economists look like that starts with a recovery in the US which we

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have had for the last couple of years, filters over to the UK and

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moves across the world. The UK is hungry -- the UK economy is healthy,

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there are signs that Europe is beginning to pick up, and a lot of

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people perhaps confused by China, Brexit, an interesting time for the

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markets. I will take a sharp turn and talk about, we just mentioned

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that Trump and his team will look at the North American Free Trade

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Agreement, lots of criticism to Mexico, but Mexico provides United

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States with about 80% of their avocados, and I can tell you what

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they love, they love guacamole in America! Particularly on Super Bowl

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day which is coming up! The avocados were banned a hundred years ago from

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going from America into the US, Nafta brought them back, and the

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Americans have been gobbling them down. We could see and do that, it

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would be a very small thing and it sounds trivial, but it is a piece of

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populist protectionism that might make Donald Trump unpopular. We will

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see! Do come back and take us through the papers. My father in

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Australia had an avocado tree in his backyard.

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Still to come: We'll find out what the head of one of the world's

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biggest mining companies is expecting from

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You're with Business Live from BBC News.

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The Association of Convenience Stores is calling upon

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the government to do more to support the UK's 19,000 rural shops.

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Hit by rising costs, a lack of high speed broadband

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and business rates - they're struggling.

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More than half of rural shops operate on their own,

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with no other retailer close by and are therefore essential

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Well let's find out more with Chris Noice,

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We heard what the issues are, what do you want the government to do

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about it? The report is highlighting the concerns we have about the

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viability of some rural shops, they are absolutely providing an

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essential service to communities across the UK. We want them to look

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at rural petrol stations, many of them are fully serviced convenience

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stores and they are not receiving the same rate relief that there are

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other rural counterparts are, as well. Many rural stores are

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disadvantaged by slow broadband speeds and slow mobile coverage.

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With many things going online it is important that these stores have a

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level playing field when making investments. Regarding investment,

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stores that are improving their business, spending money to make

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businesses better and more appealing, they are actually being

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dis- incentivised and we want to see that being changed. With Brexit, and

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what that has done with the value of the pound, it makes things more

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expensive for these shops to bring their goods in, are they telling you

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that? They don't have the buying power like the huge supermarkets.

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You are right. The buying power is different, but I think it is more of

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a secondary impact for the convenience sector because many

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stores source their goods locally and we have done research and the

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impact of Brexit is not hitting yet. It will be interesting to see how

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this changes in the next year. We appreciate your time. Thanks.

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There is a story on the tablet. Royal Mail, cost cuts ahead, tough

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times could be coming up again, because of a fall in the amount of

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letters we are sending. Send us some letters! There is an 11 month low

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for the share price. You're watching Business Live -

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our top story - later today Donald Trump will be sworn

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in as the 45th President The billionaire businessman who has

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gone from long shot candidate to the leader of world's biggest

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economy - is promising to bring A quick look at how

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markets are faring. The word is cautious today. They are

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waiting to see what Donald Trump will do when he act she gets into

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office. -- he. He has promised infrastructure investment and low

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tax rates, which could appeal to businesses, but they are holding

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their breath. Trump and China are likely

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drivers for commodity Meaning the future for

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natural resource companies But Vedanta Resources,

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one of the world's largest mining companies is unafraid

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of potential protectionist policies. But has he largely

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ignored the negative possibilities of tit-for-tat trade

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wars with China and other countries? Anil Agarwal founded the Group in

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1979 and is the Executive Chairman He joins us now from

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the World Economic Forum in Davos. Can we start with this, global

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companies like yours, you need free trade to create jobs and boost

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growth, what is your message to Donald Trump? Yeah, we have a very

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good relationship with America and India. Our companies, our company is

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1% GDP of the country, we produce oil, zinc, aluminium, and I've been

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hearing about his speech and to support his country for more jobs. I

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think Brexit is doing the same. India are doing the same. Trump is

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doing the same. Everyone has to hold onto their people and create more

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jobs I think he will look at that. He will look at this as a win-win

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situation where everybody can win, but as far as our country is

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concerned, we have a very good alignment with America. I want to

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ask you this. I will give you a break so you can swallow.

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Responsible leadership has been a big theme at Davos and we have got

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to ask you, your company has come under scrutiny, you have been

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criticised about your environmental impact. A team of top analysts in

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your country in India have described the data as being in total contempt

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of the law. No, this is absolutely incorrect. We are one of the world's

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best. We ranked one of the best. When you are in the resource

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industry you have got to be very careful and we use technology today.

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We are a new company and we can't do anything which is not right. Our

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environmental norms. India hardly produces anything and India has only

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done anything, about 10%, compare to the world, 90%, we import most of

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our oil and this government is completely looking to how we reform

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and make more oil and gas in the country and more copper in the

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country and how to open up the resources sector and how to do the

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start up. And create a phenomenal jobs, and for the world to come and

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invest. This is a huge market. It's a huge market. We are going to leave

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it there. We appreciate your time, as always. Stay warm. We are joined

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again by Laurence. We are going to talk about our paper

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stories. We have that tweet, what you think about Donald Trump?

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Optimistic or press mystic. Story here about his Treasury Nonna --

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treasury nominee who contradicted the president. -- optimistic or

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press mystic Donald Trump says he would like a

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weaker dollar. But this is a conflicting view. The treasury

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nominee is saying a stronger dollar is better. Well, the treasury

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nominee is going to get more respect because he has an economics

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background. The Treasury Secretary would hopefully understand the

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direction the country needs to go. The dollar needs to stay strong

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longer term. This is a good thing, they are having a discussion, these

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are the checks and balances will stop people are worried Donald Trump

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will do what he wants, but these are the checks and balances. Yes, the

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nation is not schedule challenging. Exactly. Sticking with that theme.

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Here goes the tablet. Inauguration ball. Michael Flatley to perform at

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the inauguration ball. Not quite perform, he has rickety knees, but

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he will lead his dance troop out and perform. He is most like the last

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man standing who actually wanted to agree to appear at this ball. What a

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comparison to the Obama ball. Yes, but I'm sure they will have fun,

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watching Michael Flatley. Being British, we go for Marmite. It is

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wonderful. Anyway, that you might is back in the hands of the Aussies.

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They will try to rebrand it, so it is not just for breakfast, you can

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have it all day long. You can have it with cheese in sandwiches, I have

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that at school, lettuce is very good with vegimite. Always a pleasure.

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There will be more business news throughout the day on the BBC Live

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webpage and on World Business Report.

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Good morning. It is a big day on the other side of the pond in Washington

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and we're expecting to see cloud thickening up and likely to bring

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some

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