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This is Business Live from BBC News, with Aaron Heslehurst

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Tax wars - can Brexit Britain and Trump's United States beat

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the likes of Ireland at their own game and lure

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back the multinationals and their billions?

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Live from London, that's our top story on Thursday 26th January.

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Can the President force through the tax cuts he says

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will help boost and fuel the world's biggest economy?

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Another big fine - Royal Bank of Scotland

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says its mis-selling in America's sub-prime crisis will now

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It is the Trump pump, the Dow on Wall Street passing through the

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20,000 mark on its first time in history. We'll bring you the latest

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on the markets. And we'll be getting

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the inside track on life in the fast lane with the boss of London's City

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Airport. Just how do you grow a business

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that's hemmed in on all sides? Scientists say smart devices or is

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good at doctors as spotting skin cancer. What would you like your

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phone to warn you about? We're talking about

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corporate tax cuts. It's a central part

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of President Trump's strategy to boost the US economy,

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and is on the agenda today at the Republican Party's annual

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retreat in Philadelphia. President Trump will be

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there to give an address, as will British Prime Minister Theresa May -

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a first for a foreign leader. Before winning the election,

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Mr Trump promised he'd tax rate from 35% to around 15%

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to try and keep more He's targeting the billions

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that US multinationals - like Starbucks, Google and Microsoft

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- make overseas. Mr Trump says he'll allow

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them to repatriate those But Britain's Prime Minister Theresa

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May has pledged to deliver the "lowest corporation rate

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in the G20," as the UK tries to make itself attractive to big companies

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once it leaves the European Union. And next door is Ireland,

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which is in the European Union and has successfully attracted

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multinationals like Apple, It has corporation

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tax of just 12.5%. Did demystify all of this and talk

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through the issues I'm joined by a guest.

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John Cullinane is Tax Policy Director at the UK's Chartered

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Aaron outlining where we are at at the moment. Interesting what Donald

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Trump has promised. The question is, can he deliver on those promises? It

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is included in the US, isn't it? It is, because the government is not

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all powerful, having a majority in parliament. Both houses of Congress

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have two agree. Obviously they are all now Republican, but in the

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American system they still have very different ideas and proposals as to

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how to go about these things. That the key difference. In the UK we

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have a budget, they announced tax changes that can come into affect

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almost immediately if not the next day. In the US, it's so difficult to

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change the tax laws. They just getting to the round the edges.

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There hasn't ever been a real reform of the. That's right. 35% is quite

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high on wild white terms now. Most countries have a lower tax rate. --

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or worldwide terms. They change the rules, the UK is pretty much taking

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what it was before in cash terms and it is taking vastly more than it

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used to take in the 1970s with a tax rate of 52%, because as it has

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driven down the rate it has broadened the base. One of the big

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on the US, will they broaden the on the US, will they broaden the

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base or will they just use it to pump money in? That is partly the

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difference between Congress and President Trump. John, we constantly

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hear that if President Trump is successful and get that tax rate

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down to around 15% mark, that's always good news for big

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corporations. But I'm wondering about, in the US you can imagine

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there is millions of them, millions of small to medium-size businesses,

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we know that as the bloodline of any economy, does that also benefit the

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smaller guys? Well, it can do. In the US, a lot of small businesses,

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even if they are incorporated, they look through it for tax purposes,

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they are still packs against the individual and the individuals have

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higher rates. In the UK it is becoming a problem that does the

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Corporation Tax rate is going down, any small business is tempted to

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incorporate that it otherwise wouldn't and pay the lower rates. On

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an international level, organisations like the OECD and

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others are trying to come up with an international tax system to make it

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simpler and also to avoid loopholes and tax evasion. If Donald Trump

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ploughs ahead with his plans, that will make it more, located, won't

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it? If Donald Trump's plans go through, ironically it will be a

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very low rate. The UK would arguably already be undercutting it because

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we are going to rate of 17%. His of 15% to have the white and state

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taxes, when you add on those they would be about 20%. We would be

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undercutting Donald Trump and his tax system would not be recognisably

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like ours or the rest of the world. Ironically it is the Republican

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leadership in Congress that want to change the nature of the tax system

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to make it a hybrid between Corporation Tax and VAT, that would

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make it a very different system to other countries, opening up the

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polls and double tax and so on. It's very complicated and the devil is in

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the detail -- opening up loopholes. The other big story that is just

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around, and news coming out about it this morning.

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Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland says its set aside another further

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$3.8 billion to cover fines in the United States.

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It's all linked to the mis-selling of financial products linked

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to risky mortgages in the build up to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Simon Jack is our Business Editor and he's been following the story.

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Simon, you were digging out this detail late yesterday, what can you

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tell us? This is another big financial body blow for RBS. They

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have put in nearly $4 billion to one side. This is just into a kitty they

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are putting together to have a monster find they are expecting for

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their role in the sub-prime crisis. The kitty is that $9 billion at the

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moment. They are saying this is not a settlement and it is not final,

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because it's very likely they will have to put more money in this kitty

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next year. Now, fine could be anywhere in the region of 10- $20

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billion, we just don't know yet. What it means that this charge they

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are taking today will guarantee another losing year for RBS. That

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will be the ninth year in a row that they have lost money. This is the

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bank that the UK public owns 72%. This is another big body blow. Is it

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yet? No, it's not. Management hope this is one step closer to the end

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of a very dark and very long tunnel. But I think we've got some way to go

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yet. Thanks, Simon. More detail on that, website as well. More stories

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making headlines all around the world... The broadcaster Sky has

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reported a 9% fall in profits, because of the rights of Premier

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League football matches. They reported a 9% fall in operating

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profits to just a pinch under $18 million. Rupert Murdoch's company

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offered to buy up the remaining 61% of the business.

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Facebook's push into virtual reality has a new boss.

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Hugo Barra's appointment was announced with this

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He'll lead the team which includes the Oculus unit

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which Mark Zuckerburg's company bought for $2bn some

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Barra has formerly worked at Google and Chinese phone maker Xiaomi.

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He just left, I think, didn't he? That was the news story. That is for

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a quick. -- very quick. Shares of Mattel -

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the largest US toymaker - slumped around 9% after its

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sales over the holiday period fell well short

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of analysts' estimates. Mattel - whose brands include Barbie

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dolls and Fisher Price toys - lost the contract to make

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Disney Princess figures Meanwhile, the wider toy industry

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grew by some 5% in 2016, led by Hasbro's Star Wars toys

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franchise. It's all about linking it up, isn't

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it, the Tory with the movie franchise. Big bucks. -- that we

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eat. Asian markets are keeping

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the momentum going after yesterday's record breaking session

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on the Dow Jones - hitting 20,000 Closing above it for the first time

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in history. History wise, in years... 131 years!

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At the moment, the Asian markets are just riding that optimistic wave

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coming from Wall Street? Absolutely. And I love some of the headlines

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that we're seeing about it. The FT says that the stocks are basking in

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the glow of the doubt going above 20,000. -- the Dow Jones. According

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to Bloomberg data, we have seen Asian stocks rise the highest level

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since 2015. We have seen a very solid earnings season on Wall

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Street. Good numbers from companies like Boeing. Of course as you

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mentioned, the Donald Trump effect. Some people call it the Trump train.

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We have seen stocks rising since November on optimism that his

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economic plans are going to be used. -- are going to boost stocks. Asian

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stocks are mostly higher today. Australia and India are closed. We

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will talk to you soon, thank you. The wow on the Dow from that Trump

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pump rippling around the world. Traders in the region telling us

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today's excitement not just from the hoorah on Wall Street,

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but also people being positive Not much more to say

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really except how long can Talking of the US - let's find out

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what's in store today. It's a big day, and here

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she is - here's Samira. More companies will be

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reporting earnings Thursday, including Google's parent company,

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Alphabet. Now, Google has been focusing

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on improving search advertising. So things like expanded text ads

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and little adjustments Microsoft will also be

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reporting earnings. And it seems cloud computing will

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continue to be a big moneymaker. Especially as more people move

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toward cloud services. Analysts will be asking

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questions about LinkedIn's That $26 billion deal to purchase

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the professional network And finally, the world's largest

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coffee chain, Starbucks, Cafes continue to drive sales,

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especially in its biggest market, That's Samira Khaleghi who has had a

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really busy couple of days. Haven't we all?! OK, OK, you are as busy as

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she, it out the! Joining us is Mike Amey

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is Managing Director and Portfolio Manager

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at the investment Nice to see you, Mike. Let's get

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your take on the 20,000 moment, were you popping the champagne or was it

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just one of those things? It was a celebratory cup of coffee, to be

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honest. Where you were expecting it? We had a couple of cracks at it, at

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some point it was going to happen. The two questions as to why we had

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such a big rally and how sustainable it is. I think, as you were talking

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about earlier, you know, I think tax is broadly the main reason. What you

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have done, if you cut Corporation Tax from 35 to 15, then corporate

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earnings goes up. So you have got this... It is going to get better as

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you get more of the money? If they get more of the money they should

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pay more for the stock. They are buying on the room and they can sell

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on the news, possibly? That's what we are a bit more worried about. You

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have had this big move up in markets and tax, and of course they are

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going to be the stimulus package through. And the markets continue to

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focus on that. Yesterday was a classic example. You have the tweet

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about building the wall, and the stock it's a new high. The markets

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get are looking for the good news. At some point you have got to

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recognise we are going to get a bubble. But I think it would be

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reasonable to be a bit more cautious, given the size of the

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movement, 10% last year. Momentum at the moment, maybe going forward just

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watch for a bit of... There could be some profit-taking as well, right?

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Don't get too carried away, we've had a decent run. Captain cautious!

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I like it! Might you are coming back to take us through some of the

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papers. We'll see you shortly. You're with Business

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Live from BBC News. We are just churning out the cars in

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the UK! The number of cars made in the UK

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reached a 17-year high last year, according

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to the industry's trade body. About 1.7 million cars rolled off

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production lines in 2016, Theo Leggett has been

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looking at the numbers. He is our internal Motorhead, a

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petrol head! Is he a petrol head? He loves it! Before I get in trouble,

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let me move on! Sio, we do well. When you're doing well in the UK

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making cars, a lot of them, 50 cents, they don't stay here in the

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UK, we ship them out, don't we? We ship out about eight out of ten of

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all cars made here. If those 1.7 million cars, more than 1.3 million

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go to 160 countries around the world. Most of them go to the

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European Union. More than half of them go to the European Union. This

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is a very successful industry in Britain. Part of the reason is that

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we specialise in hiring cars. And we have a very efficient manufacturing

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process for those cars -- hi end cars. This is not entirely a

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positive story. The Society of motor Manufacturers and radar putting the

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story out today, they are pointing out that investment in cars, new

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production lines and so on, went down to ?1.7 billion last year. They

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say that this high level of production, 17 year high level of

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production and record exports, is due to decisions that were taken a

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few years ago. It's very emphatic that this is not any sort of a

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Brexit bounce. And they are making the point here that what they want

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to see is the Government having a fairly soft attitude towards its

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negotiations with the EU, making sure that the car industry at least

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has some kind of access to the EU's Single Market and that tariffs are

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not paid either on cars that we export of the European Union or the

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parts that they are made of, a lot of which come the other way, because

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it says that if that happens it could be severely damaging for what

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is at the moment a rather successful industry.

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What do you drive? I drive a 1972 nanograms. From the great age of

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motoring. Wow! As US Republican party leaders lay

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out plans for tax cuts, will the big multinationals bring their profits

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back on shore, or can Brexit Britain A quick look at how

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markets are faring... Everything in green again, coming

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from the big jump, over 20,000 for the first time in history, the Dow

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Jones. And that ripple effect circulating around the world.

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Let's get the inside track on the airport at the heart

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of Canary Wharf which plays a vital role in bringing business leaders

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This year London City Airport is marking it's 30th anniversary.

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It currently handles 4.5m passengers a year flying to 48 destinations.

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71% of the flights link to a European Union destination -

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something which may change once the UK leaves the EU

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As with Heathrow, it's bigger rival on the other side of London,

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City Airport is looking to expand with more room for aircraft

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We have Declan collier with us. We just talked about the fact that you

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are planning to expand, but how do you do that given where you are? You

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are completely surrounded, so you can't add runways or anything of

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that nature. We have just received planning permission for doing that

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and we are about to spend ?350 million... A runway or a taxiway? We

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are building a parallel taxiway, make the runway more efficient in

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getting aircraft up and down. We are building more and bigger parking

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stands to take the next generation of jets. We were talking about the

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number of destinations. The people around the world watching, you have

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a limited size of runway because it is surrounded by skyscrapers, so you

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can only use a certain size of aircraft. 95% of your

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destinations... When Brexit came along, did you hold your breath?

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Once the UK does leave, and if there are travel restrictions or you need

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visas and passports, could that impact you, the airport, people

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travelling? I don't think so. Look, we say we are the only London

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airport actually in London. We are three miles from Canary Wharf, six

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miles from the City of London. We can and will develop, and you are

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right - we are focused today on Europe. 95% of our destinations are

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into Europe. With this development plan, we get the new generation of

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aircraft coming in with longer range, so we will open up

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destinations beyond Europe, to the Middle East and the Gulf, into

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India, Africa and hopefully expanding the destinations in

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America. How soon? If you look at Heathrow and what will happen now,

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the go-ahead there will take at least till 2030 before you see

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anything happening with increased capacity. We can increase our

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capacity in the next two, three years. What might you are Irish. I

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want to know - what is it with the Irish and aviation? Willie Walsh,

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Michael O'Leary, the boss of the biggest airline in the world in

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terms of bums on seats. Is it in your blood?

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I think we woke up one day and realised we are a small island off

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another island off the shores of Europe and the only way we can get

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around is to fly. We have been doing it for a long time. The invention of

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Irish coffee was at Shannon airport in the 1940s. We had the growth of

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duty-free coming out of the same place. And then in aircraft leasing,

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Ireland is the home for the vast bulk of the war's aviation fleets

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because of the financing. It must be in the blood. Must be! Thank you for

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coming in. Alcoholic drinks,

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talking of the Irish! - giant Diageo has

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just released results The maker of Smirnoff Vodka,

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Johnnie Walker whisky and Guinness stout says net sales were up more

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than 14 per cent, and operating The company says its spirits

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business in the US is doing much better, and in particular

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its scotch whiskey brands. The chief executive of Diageo,

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Ivan Menezes, spoke to us earlier. Our performance across

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the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia

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was And our categories and

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brands performed well. Johnnie Walker, our

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biggest brand, was up Our whisky brands in North America,

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like Crown Royal and The business is healthy, and it's

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a function of the strategy we been implementing in the last few years

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is really paying off. People around the world

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are drinking better, and Diageo does better when that

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happens, because our brand of premium, and we benefit

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from the trade up that happens I spoke to Ivan Minev is earlier. He

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is on our website. -- Menezes. I am wondering what he is drinking there.

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Martini. I should have asked what his

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favourite tipple is. I like beer and wine.

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I like champagne. I am an Aussie but I am not a big

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beer drinker. Shall we start on the newspapers.

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Our viewers have sent us tweets about the story in The Times about

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the smartphone. Doctors are saying it is as good if not better at

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detecting skin cancer than perhaps going to your GP. Amazing, isn't it?

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As we were saying earlier, one does not think about detection of cancer

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with smartphones. The clear thing is the computing power of smartphones

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is becoming phenomenal, and the number of things you can do is

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growing ever higher. And the demand for that kind of thing. When it

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comes to applications and wearable technology, a lot of it is to do

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with health, isn't it? Making us healthier or figuring out what is

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wrong, that sort of stuff. Can you go over your body with it?

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One in three people in Australia get melanoma.

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Let's hear what you had to say about this.

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One viewer says colon I would like my phone to tell me if I am getting

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too stressed and to calm me down. Colleagues can do that!

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We have had some CEOs start-ups who are coming up with wearable

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technology. We will cover that. We have got twice the supply is

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compared to what we will use in the next 40 years, so the price

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shouldn't go up much. The price of $100 a barrel that we saw in 2014

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will not come back? No. It will stay around the level it is at now. Spot

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on, mate. Thanks for joining us. Wrap it up, Sal.

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Cold is the theme through the day-to-day. Particularly so when you

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factor in the wind, which is quite a bitter wind. That is coming in from

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