:00:07. > :00:08.This is Business Live from BBC News, with Sally Bundock
:00:09. > :00:15.Elon Musk's electric car and clean energy company says it's on track
:00:16. > :00:18.to launch its first mass-market vehicle this year.
:00:19. > :00:20.Live from London, that's our top story on Thursday
:00:21. > :00:44.Tesla shares have been surging in recent months and more good news
:00:45. > :00:46.was delivered overnight - but will Elon Musk deliver
:00:47. > :00:53.on his promise of mass market car production by July?
:00:54. > :00:56.Also in the programme: Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn announces
:00:57. > :00:58.he's going to step aside as Chief Executive after 16
:00:59. > :01:01.years at the helm - he remains its chairman -
:01:02. > :01:04.we'll be live in Asia for the latest.
:01:05. > :01:08.And a mixed performance for Europe's markets today.
:01:09. > :01:13.It was the turn of Barclays to wow investors with its profits news
:01:14. > :01:19.We'll continue our Disability Works series by meeting the woman whose
:01:20. > :01:24.College of Fragrance is changing the lives of blind people in Mumbai.
:01:25. > :01:36.The President of Iceland says pineapple on pizza should be banned!
:01:37. > :01:38.Are you a lover or a hater of fruit as a topping?
:01:39. > :02:04.I will begin by stating I am for pineapple on pizza. Give us your
:02:05. > :02:07.views on this, it is a very hot debate. We will be asking all of our
:02:08. > :02:09.guests, as well. We start with electric car maker
:02:10. > :02:12.and clean energy company, Tesla. Its share price has been
:02:13. > :02:15.soaring in recent months - and it was up again late
:02:16. > :02:17.on Wednesday after it reported Tesla is still losing money -
:02:18. > :02:22.but less than expected. More importantly though it has
:02:23. > :02:26.reassured investors it's on track to expand beyond the niche luxury
:02:27. > :02:29.car market and enter the big At $35,000, it's half the price
:02:30. > :02:38.of existing Tesla models - In a letter to shareholders,
:02:39. > :02:43.Tesla says it's on schedule Tesla has promised to be producing
:02:44. > :02:56.a total of half a million cars In 2016, it delivered this
:02:57. > :02:59.many of its existing two luxury models -
:03:00. > :03:02.just over 76,000 - So it's still a small
:03:03. > :03:11.scale operator. But judging by the share price -
:03:12. > :03:14.investors have high hopes it could become the next Ford
:03:15. > :03:17.or General Motors. Tesla shares have soared around 50%
:03:18. > :03:22.since the beginning of December, giving it a stock market value
:03:23. > :03:29.of this: $44 billion. To put that in context -
:03:30. > :03:32.it's being valued almost as much as Ford - which has been around more
:03:33. > :03:38.than a century and sold over With me is our technology
:03:39. > :03:56.correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. Always good to see you. I don't know
:03:57. > :04:01.where to start. At 1.I want to talk about the company's valuation
:04:02. > :04:05.because it is right up there with Ford, at this model three is being
:04:06. > :04:10.described as a make or break the Tesla, is that right? The whole
:04:11. > :04:11.journey of the company is towards being more than a niche sports car
:04:12. > :04:17.business. And this man is business. And this man is
:04:18. > :04:21.extraordinary, Elon Musk is extraordinary. Everything hangs or
:04:22. > :04:25.falls on him, and he has laid out this vision. They unveiled this
:04:26. > :04:30.Model three car, this mass-market car, it is going to cost $35,000 and
:04:31. > :04:33.they got a huge number of pre-orders, and everyone is waiting
:04:34. > :04:37.to see whether they can deliver. There has been suddenly turns on the
:04:38. > :04:42.trajectory of this company, he is like a man walking up a mountain on
:04:43. > :04:46.a tightrope. Similar times he has nearly fallen off but kept on going.
:04:47. > :04:52.But he has got the investors behind him. The share price up 50% since
:04:53. > :04:57.December. But the investors must be looking at this company, going, this
:04:58. > :05:02.is almost the same value as food, which is 100 years old and sold 6
:05:03. > :05:07.million cars last year. It is crazy rule. It is being valued like
:05:08. > :05:13.Amazon. That kind of business. Amazon, Facebook, a big growth
:05:14. > :05:18.stock, his best years are certainly ahead of it, and they better be.
:05:19. > :05:23.Because it is already being priced as if it is a huge volume car-maker,
:05:24. > :05:29.which let's be clear, it isn't, it is a tiny niche maker. But another
:05:30. > :05:33.little warning last night, Elon Musk said we are very close to the edge,
:05:34. > :05:37.in terms of needing to raise more money, we may have to go back to
:05:38. > :05:42.Wall Street to get some more money. They are investing huge amounts.
:05:43. > :05:44.This factory, the giga factory, the biggest factory ever, one of the
:05:45. > :05:50.biggest in the world, that is costing a huge amount to build.
:05:51. > :05:54.There is political risk because nobody knows what the Trump's
:05:55. > :06:00.administration attitude is towards clean energy. It has been
:06:01. > :06:04.interesting to see the careful line Elon Musk has trodden with President
:06:05. > :06:09.Trump. It is a fantastic story, because it is as I say a man walking
:06:10. > :06:13.a tightrope. You have met Elon Musk, what does your gut feeling say about
:06:14. > :06:17.this? They want to raise more money but they have got so much debt, they
:06:18. > :06:21.are not making any money, they are very small and there was a risk you
:06:22. > :06:25.just mentioned. You think he will deliver, or are we going to see
:06:26. > :06:31.delays in July, the story of delay from Tesla? It is quite likely we
:06:32. > :06:34.will see delays. He is the most amazing character, I met him at the
:06:35. > :06:37.design centre. There was a car and a black sheep which we never got to
:06:38. > :06:42.see, which was probably this Model three. And he spends this
:06:43. > :06:45.extraordinary tale. He is an inspiration, talks about as becoming
:06:46. > :06:51.a multi-planet species and living on Mars. There was a whole new services
:06:52. > :06:56.to melt there. It is a question of whether you buy into that, and a
:06:57. > :07:02.little to. Pineapple on pizza. An abomination. This is the man who
:07:03. > :07:06.makes his own bread. I don't want pineapple in my bed. You should try
:07:07. > :07:09.it. Bring on a next time, thanks, Rory. Let's move on.
:07:10. > :07:14.Australia's top airline Qantas says profits fell 7.5 per cent
:07:15. > :07:16.in the last six months of 2016, blaming tougher competition.
:07:17. > :07:23.Qantas has turned itself around in recent years
:07:24. > :07:26.through aggressive cost-cutting, but say it is facing increased
:07:27. > :07:35.CEO Alan Joyce called market conditions "challenging".
:07:36. > :07:38.Officials at the US Federal Reserve have said they may need to raise
:07:39. > :07:43.interest rates "fairly soon" if the economy stays strong.
:07:44. > :07:45.Minutes of their first meeting since Donald Trump took office
:07:46. > :07:47.as president show they discussed the possibility of a rate
:07:48. > :07:59.Most economists have been forecasting a rise in June.
:08:00. > :08:01.Swiss engineering group, ABB, says it has discovered what it
:08:02. > :08:06.calls a "sophisticated criminal scheme" in its South Korean
:08:07. > :08:07.subsidiary, which may cost it $100 million.
:08:08. > :08:09.ABB is accusing a senior employee in South Korea,
:08:10. > :08:12.who it did not name, of colluding with others
:08:13. > :08:15.The company's Chief Executive Ulrich Spiesshofer described the situation
:08:16. > :08:17.as "shocking news" that could dent the reputation of
:08:18. > :08:39.All prices rose overnight. This is basically, they have been up and
:08:40. > :08:43.down, but in the general sense they have been on the rise. This time of
:08:44. > :08:48.the back of as you can see that there, the US stockpiles shrinking,
:08:49. > :08:55.basically, lower than what they originally thought they were. Oil at
:08:56. > :09:01.$56.35 a barrel. Padelli who is not going to like that. Qantas, or any
:09:02. > :09:04.of the airlines. It is challenging. Don't you love it when the CEO uses
:09:05. > :09:07.that word? Tim McDonald is in Singapore,
:09:08. > :09:09.where Carlos Ghosn is relinquishing his role as chief executive
:09:10. > :09:23.of Nissan. And now he's going to be chairman,
:09:24. > :09:28.doesn't mean it is hands after today, or how it work? He is not
:09:29. > :09:35.released the thing back so far as the defining his role. It is true
:09:36. > :09:43.even though longer be the CEO, but he was to be very busy, -- he will
:09:44. > :09:56.still the Chief Executive. The reshuffle will allow him to
:09:57. > :10:02.focus on the alliances between the three companies and making use of
:10:03. > :10:05.the greater scale that the Mitsubishi purchase might bring to
:10:06. > :10:09.the alliance. His old job will go to the roto Sarkar were, already the
:10:10. > :10:15.company's co-Chief Executive and a 40 year veteran of Nissan, so likely
:10:16. > :10:19.to be seen as a fairly safe pair of hands was the do you or do you not
:10:20. > :10:28.like you're pineapple on pizza? You know, I kind of abstain from this
:10:29. > :10:30.one. Pep you can't set of offence. Don't be a worse! I can vote however
:10:31. > :10:42.I want! Butt we will be accused of bullying.
:10:43. > :10:46.Let's have a look at the markets. In Asia, a fairly flat day, and a lot
:10:47. > :10:49.of that is to do with the minutes from the last Federal reserve
:10:50. > :10:55.meeting, the US central bank. They were released on Wednesday.
:10:56. > :10:58.Everybody is trying to do just and read between the lines as to what
:10:59. > :11:03.they will tell us about rates going up in the United States and it is
:11:04. > :11:07.not that clear as ever. Markets are sort of treading water. That was the
:11:08. > :11:12.story in Asia, that is the closure for the Dow Jones overnight. Let's
:11:13. > :11:16.look at your right now, trading as we speak. London down a little bit,
:11:17. > :11:20.Barclays shares among the big winners of the back of its was out.
:11:21. > :11:27.Nasr was out at, we will talk you through Europe in a moment but first
:11:28. > :11:30.the United States. Donald Trump is to meet with business leaders from
:11:31. > :11:37.different industries this Thursday to discuss how to create more jobs.
:11:38. > :11:38.Trump has cast himself as the anti-globalisation president,
:11:39. > :11:44.criticising multinationals for moving jobs abroad. And vowing to
:11:45. > :11:48.bring manufacturing positions back. This meeting has been described by
:11:49. > :11:53.his press secretary at a listening session, where he will receive job
:11:54. > :11:58.creation advice from captains of industry. It comes against a
:11:59. > :12:01.backdrop of an improving US economy, one which many economists described
:12:02. > :12:05.as close to full employment. Talking about jobs on the economic front,
:12:06. > :12:12.initial weekly jobless claims will be released and the cinema chain
:12:13. > :12:15.IMAX is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter results. Compared
:12:16. > :12:19.with last year it may not be doing as well, because although cinema
:12:20. > :12:23.attendance was boosted by the release in December or programme a
:12:24. > :12:26.stable story, with fewest December saw the release of Star Wars: The
:12:27. > :12:30.Force Awakens, which many of you may recall was a big box office
:12:31. > :12:31.blockbuster. Joining us is Jane Sydenham,
:12:32. > :12:46.Investment Director, Good morning, Jane. Have you been
:12:47. > :12:53.away? Skiing. Lovely sunny skiing. We have to roll on. Interest rates,
:12:54. > :12:57.we have this suggestion, this feeling that with all the economic
:12:58. > :13:03.numbers, pretty good, the higher interest rates will come sooner. To
:13:04. > :13:07.me like I interest rates? Savers do, investors don't so much, but what it
:13:08. > :13:11.really means is we are getting back to a more normal, stronger economy,
:13:12. > :13:14.that is what this is all about. Inflation picking up a bit,
:13:15. > :13:18.employment is fairly full, markets are pretty good. We are in a
:13:19. > :13:21.position, we can start to make money little bit more expensive by putting
:13:22. > :13:25.rates up, and that shows that things are getting better after years and
:13:26. > :13:30.years of rock bottom rates. Talking of that, the banks, the bad
:13:31. > :13:34.headlines about banks has not been the case this week. HSBC did a bit
:13:35. > :13:38.of a disappointment at the beginning of the week but Lord and Barclays
:13:39. > :13:41.today... Generally much better, and certainly a bit of inflation and
:13:42. > :13:44.rising interest rates are really good for banks, which is where you
:13:45. > :13:47.have seen share prices start to recover. Barclays results were
:13:48. > :13:52.actually better than expected. They have a bit more capital now, which
:13:53. > :13:55.is better, they have benefited from currencies, the investment bank is
:13:56. > :14:00.doing better. All of these things are relatively small improvements
:14:01. > :14:05.but it is all a sign... Investors are climbing in today and yesterday
:14:06. > :14:08.for roads. Yes, and after years and years of really poor performance of
:14:09. > :14:16.the banks, we are just starting to see the early signs of improvement.
:14:17. > :14:21.Jane, pineapple? Not for me, why not apples or blackberries? It is not
:14:22. > :14:25.for me. Why not? You will come back and take us through the papers and
:14:26. > :14:28.we will talk about it more then. We will explain why that story is in
:14:29. > :14:31.the news, it is quite interesting actually.
:14:32. > :14:32.Coming up: Changing lives and changing perceptions.
:14:33. > :14:35.We'll meet the woman whose College of Fragrance in Mumbai is helping
:14:36. > :14:38.blind people get into the art - and industry - of perfumery.
:14:39. > :14:44.You're with Business Live from BBC News.
:14:45. > :14:47.And now a look at some of the stories from around the UK.
:14:48. > :14:52.Britain's Barclays Bank has reported sharply higher profits this morning.
:14:53. > :14:58.Our business correspondent Theo Leggett has more.
:14:59. > :15:05.Good to see you. We are going to ask you the question at the end of this
:15:06. > :15:10.about pineapple, but Barclays, why are they doing better? There are
:15:11. > :15:16.lots of reasons that Barclays has embarked over the last few years in
:15:17. > :15:20.a major restructuring exercise. It has been selling non-core
:15:21. > :15:23.businesses. It has been focusing on being a transatlantic business
:15:24. > :15:28.focusing on the United States and the UK. That business at the moment
:15:29. > :15:32.is doing rather well. Obviously, there are some outside factors which
:15:33. > :15:39.have massaged the figures. Barclays is not having to set as much money
:15:40. > :15:41.aside for past wrongdoing such as exchange rate manipulation and
:15:42. > :15:46.Payment Protection Insurance. There is some money set aside for that but
:15:47. > :15:51.not as much as the previous year. Not as much as 2015, so that has
:15:52. > :15:55.helped boost the figures. Also the businesses themselves are doing
:15:56. > :15:59.well. Particularly the investment banking business which has been
:16:00. > :16:03.raking in the profits. Obviously, there are uncertainties out there.
:16:04. > :16:06.What will happen if Britain has to leave the single market when it
:16:07. > :16:08.leaves the European Union? My colleague Simon Jack has been
:16:09. > :16:15.speaking to the chief executive about just that point. We are
:16:16. > :16:19.looking at contingencies right now. We have a subsidiary bank in
:16:20. > :16:24.Ireland. We have a very large operation in Germany. We are the
:16:25. > :16:27.largest credit card company in Germany, for instance. So we are
:16:28. > :16:32.looking at what our options are to operate across Europe if we lose the
:16:33. > :16:37.single market, because of Brexit. But I don't think any of those plans
:16:38. > :16:43.reflect a dramatic departure from London. We may add some people in
:16:44. > :16:45.Dublin, we may add some people across Europe, but our core
:16:46. > :16:50.operations Centre will continue to be London.
:16:51. > :16:55.So obviously there are issues about what happens after Brexit, that he
:16:56. > :16:59.is not panicking just yet. The bank is in a better shape to whether the
:17:00. > :17:04.slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. It has good capital
:17:05. > :17:15.buffers. Now, you were going to ask me about some pizza. Do you like
:17:16. > :17:16.pineapple? Not on a pizza. I am a pepperoni man. I like spicy. We will
:17:17. > :17:22.leave it right there! You're watching Business Live -
:17:23. > :17:24.our top story - Tesla fever! Elon Musk's electric car and clean
:17:25. > :17:27.energy company says it's on track to launch its first mass-market
:17:28. > :17:32.vehicle this year. Shares have surged over
:17:33. > :17:56.the past three months, They are up 50% since December.
:17:57. > :18:01.Investors are loving this company. It is quite incredible.
:18:02. > :18:04.Being blind can affect your life chances - even in the most
:18:05. > :18:07.But in developing economies, where poverty is deep and endemic -
:18:08. > :18:12.India has about five million people living with visual impairment - and,
:18:13. > :18:15.for them, finding employment can be a real battle.
:18:16. > :18:19.Today, in the latest in our Disability Works series,
:18:20. > :18:21.we look at how one company is working to change that.
:18:22. > :18:25.CPL Aromas is a global perfume company, and has set up a College
:18:26. > :18:27.of Fragrance for the visually impaired in Mumbai, which teaches
:18:28. > :18:32.basic skills and training needed to work in the fragrance industry.
:18:33. > :18:35.Research by CPL showed that visually impaired people showed significantly
:18:36. > :18:41.heightened levels of odour perception.
:18:42. > :18:42.Angela Stavrevska, UK Creative Director
:18:43. > :18:57.Angela, great to have you with us. I can see we are going to do a lot of
:18:58. > :19:01.smelling! When I first read this, I thought, this has got to be a
:19:02. > :19:05.no-brainer because you would think visually impaired people have a
:19:06. > :19:10.stronger smell. Think all of their other senses tend to be heightened,
:19:11. > :19:13.but when we have looked at the sense of smell, research is still not
:19:14. > :19:16.complete but it looks as if it is the way people smell and analyse the
:19:17. > :19:24.smells that they are smelling, as opposed to the physical aspect of
:19:25. > :19:29.fragrance smelling. As an example, I work as a perfume, so my whole life
:19:30. > :19:32.I am always smelling waters around me and almost navigating and
:19:33. > :19:36.understanding where I am because of the smell, so whether I am in my
:19:37. > :19:50.garden, or I am in Hong Kong and the smell of the streets and food. I
:19:51. > :19:52.think visually impaired people have that heightened sense of using
:19:53. > :19:55.fragrance almost as a navigation tool so that is why they are better
:19:56. > :19:57.suited to working in the fragrance industry. How did CPL start this
:19:58. > :20:05.place in mum by where they are training visually impaired people to
:20:06. > :20:10.become perfumers? The CEO wanted to check that. We have an office in mum
:20:11. > :20:14.by and again the managing director there also wanted to see if that was
:20:15. > :20:19.true and see if we could help people. So about five years ago this
:20:20. > :20:26.research was taking place which we funded and it was found to be, Yes,
:20:27. > :20:36.it substantiated the theory. Is the training the same as somebody -- for
:20:37. > :20:41.somebody like you? Dissimilar, it is smelling raw materials. It is
:20:42. > :20:46.talking fragrance language because we have a specific language and it
:20:47. > :20:50.is also memory, memorising smells. You have to have an interest and
:20:51. > :20:56.passion for it in the first place. We were talking about our sense of
:20:57. > :21:01.smell. Mine is pretty shocking, given that I have three little boys
:21:02. > :21:07.and the dog and farm animals which is probably a good thing. But Aaron,
:21:08. > :21:15.you have a better sense of smell. I have been a bit bunged up myself
:21:16. > :21:19.lately but we can try it. This is a range of new materials we have
:21:20. > :21:31.developed. It is quite a complex odour stop complex or bad? It is how
:21:32. > :21:43.you would interpret that. I would say that is for a male. It is not a
:21:44. > :21:51.female smell. Woody? Yes. From my point of view, the perfumer, it is
:21:52. > :21:58.Woody, there are also smoky aspects, there is also citrus, grapefruit
:21:59. > :22:03.fresh. A smoky, Woody Mann! It is looking at it in a slightly in-depth
:22:04. > :22:09.way and people with visual impairment have that skill. Have you
:22:10. > :22:13.got a pineapple pizza on?! Should other fragrance houses be
:22:14. > :22:23.doing this with the visually impaired? We have set up the college
:22:24. > :22:28.in mum -- Mumbai. There are eight graduates and we are also looking at
:22:29. > :22:31.developing it in the UK with a charity in Northamptonshire called
:22:32. > :22:37.Victor. We are looking at using some of the people there to work as
:22:38. > :22:39.panellists for us. We do a lot of panel testing where people smell
:22:40. > :22:45.fragrances and see if they'll work and it is using their abilities. It
:22:46. > :22:48.is fascinating. We wish you the best of luck.
:22:49. > :22:55.Thank you for the smell test. Do you like pineapple on your pizza?
:22:56. > :22:58.Absolutely not. There are a lot of food snobs in today! Thank you,
:22:59. > :23:01.Angela Stavrevska. You can find more on our special
:23:02. > :23:03.coverage of this issue, and how businesses are dealing
:23:04. > :23:16.with it, at bbc.com/disability. The Business Live page is where you
:23:17. > :23:20.can stay ahead of all the breaking business news. We will keep you
:23:21. > :23:25.up-to-date with insight and analysis with the BBC team of editors right
:23:26. > :23:29.around the world. We want to hear from you as well. Get involved on
:23:30. > :23:38.the BBC Business Live web page and we are on Twitter, and Facebook.
:23:39. > :23:50.Business Live on TV and online, whenever you need to know. Jane is
:23:51. > :23:58.back. We have been talking pizza all morning. Explain why this is in the
:23:59. > :24:06.news? Understand Mr Johannesson, the Icelandic Prime Minister visited a
:24:07. > :24:11.school and he was asked if he liked pineapple on his pizza and he said
:24:12. > :24:15.he was fundamentally opposed to the idea. He said he would ban pineapple
:24:16. > :24:21.on pizza in icelands, which is interesting. You have not said where
:24:22. > :24:29.you are? I would eat pineapple on pizza. So you are not a food snob.
:24:30. > :24:38.We have lots of tweets. They have been pouring in.
:24:39. > :24:42.This person says I am pro-pineapple on pizza. It is the key to a lovely
:24:43. > :24:48.Hawaiian pizza. It is a high wind pizza, isn't it?
:24:49. > :24:56.Another person says I will stop eating pizzas if they ban pineapple
:24:57. > :24:59.is as a topping. Jiri says my favourite is double pineapple pizza.
:25:00. > :25:05.He says he is ashamed. Don't be ashamed! Another person says it is
:25:06. > :25:11.absolutely unspeakable. So it is a hot debate. Jane, can we
:25:12. > :25:18.talk about this story in the Irish Times. It says Brexit has delivered
:25:19. > :25:23.a big mass of companies registering there. Think there is a fear that
:25:24. > :25:26.what happens in Brexit and the regulatory environment, companies
:25:27. > :25:32.are trying to hedge their bets. They want to set up an option in Ireland,
:25:33. > :25:34.so they can adjust the way they operate, particularly companies from
:25:35. > :25:39.Northern Ireland seem to be doing this. There is obviously in need,
:25:40. > :25:44.they can move their staff relatively easily south of the border. And
:25:45. > :25:50.cheaper corporate taxes? Indeed. Said hedging your bets.
:25:51. > :25:53.Short and sweet with the papers I am afraid. Sally has taken up all the
:25:54. > :25:57.time! I am not here to tomorrow so you can
:25:58. > :26:17.enjoy it then. Bye-bye. Hello, we are quite likely to seize
:26:18. > :26:24.and disruption from Storm Doris as it moves its way across the Atlantic
:26:25. > :26:25.from the United Kingdom. You can see this hook of cloud is where we have