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China's Premier hails the opportunties of economic

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globalisation but warns against the dangers of unfair growth

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Live from London, that's our top story on Tuesday the 27th of June.

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China's premier says the country will meet its full-year target.

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We will take a look at how things may look on Wall Street later. And

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the challenge of keeping your kids entertained - we will talk to a

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businesswoman who has crowd funded efforts to make a backpack with

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Wi-Fi and GPS. Hole in the wall, cashpoint or ATM - whatever you call

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it, it is celebrating its 50th birthday. Our eights days numbered?

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-- but are its days numbered? A very warm welcome to Business

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Life. If china's Premier warned the World Economic Forum that fairness

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is essential or else people will feel left behind. After the USA,

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China is the world's second largest economy, with a value of the $11

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trillion. It accounts for almost 15% of what the world produces each

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year, but it is home to 19% of the world's population, almost one in

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five and with the number of people increasing, so too are its cities,

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in size and number. A brand-new eco-city Xiongan will house 2.5

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million people. It is home to several unicorns, that is companies

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worth over $1 billion. Some of the best-known names with global

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ambitions are start-up businesses worth over $10 billion.

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Let's cross to our Asia Business Correspondent Karishma Vaswani,

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The Chinese premier has been speaking in the last couple of hours

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- tell us what he said about china's economy. The big focus for China at

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the World Economic Forum, the break face of China to the world, appears

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to be achieving the country's stated growth targets. The Premier said

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that China can contain any of the risks that have been so well

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publicised about its economy. It can achieve those growth targets. I am

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talking about the massive amounts of public and private debt that China

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has, worth more than 250% of GDP, figures that are very scary for most

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developed economies, let alone China, which is still in the midst

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of a big transition. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, the premier

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dismissed those concerns and said that china's economy remained steady

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and had seen improving momentum as it moved to a more domestic focused

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policy. The Premier said that growth forecast is realistic, but he did

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point to the difficulties ahead in ensuring that everybody is included

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in this rapid pace of growth. Let's listen to what he had to say.

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TRANSLATION: Globalisation is changing our world with

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unprecedented speed and depth, which has provided limitless opportunities

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for all economies. However, if inadequate measures are taken, it

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might create a problem of lack of inclusive growth. In other words, it

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will create a problem of fairness. For example, some people will

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benefit more than other groups, and traditional industries and jobs may

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feel the impact. There seems to be a big focus on tech, and it is a

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long-standing ambition for China to be a world leader in that field.

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Indeed, and many other big names from Asia that have become household

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names that us, this has become a really important part of the

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remarkable transformation in China. Let's not forget that over the last

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30 years, China basically turned into the factory of the world,

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lifted incomes and living standards for people across the country, and

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made goods much cheaper than the rest of us. It is trying to do the

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same thing when it comes to technology, and I think that

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ambition will be played out in the coming decades. What would the

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Chinese premier be satisfied with at the end of this World Economic

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Forum? I think for many of them are murderers about china going forward,

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the fact that a lot of analysis has gone into the idea that there is

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going to be a hard landing. What China really cares about is the

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social contract it has with its people. We have had this massive

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economic transformation of the last 30 years, but that has lifted living

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standards for people at home. For this to continue, you really need to

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see inclusive growth, not this huge gap between rich and poor that every

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day appears to be getting wider range China, which is why there is

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been this onus on cracking down on corruption. -- there has been. It is

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a big year for the Premier and there is a big party congress at the end

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of the year, so he has to show that the economy is running well and that

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people at home are satisfied, so I think that will be a key thing to

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come out of this forum. Thank you very much for that analysis.

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Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

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Western Digital has told the BBC that they have

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resubmitted their bid for Toshiba's NAND Flash Memory unit.

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The offer is understood to be in region of $18bn which is the same

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as the one from a consortium backed by the Japanese government,

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which Toshiba last week announced as its preferred option.

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Toshiba is under pressure to raise money following the huge

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losses it has incurred from its US nuclear unit.

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The US firm that supplied cladding used on London's Grenfell Tower says

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it has ended global sales of the product for use

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Arconic's shares closed down almost 6% in New York on Monday.

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The company said it was discontinuing sales of Reynobond PE

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for tower blocks due to "issues" identified by the fire

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which is believed to have killed at least 79 people.

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The Japanese computer gaming giant Nintendo has

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This time it's set to bring the Super Nintendo Entertainment

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The original was launched in 1990 and sold 50m units worldwide.

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Some analysts have suggested it's part of its marketing drive

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to increase sales of its latest console, the Ninetendo Switch.

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Nissan says it paid its Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn around

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$10 million in the year ended March, up 2.5 percent from

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Mr Ghosn, who's one of the best-paid auto executives, received a separate

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salary of $7.89 million last year as the head of Renault, Nissan's

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He stepped down as Nissan chief Executive at the end of March,

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but remains chairman of the Japanese company.

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Let's look at how the markets are doing.

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Japanese stocks edged towards two-year highs on Tuesday.

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Exporters benefited from a strong dollar, shares in Toyota,

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The dollar has risen in value as investors

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are expecting comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet

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Yellen to support the Fed's projection for one more interest

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A softer open on the European markets.

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There's a general sense of caution in financial markets,

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according to analysts, noting that commodities like crude

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oil, which is suffering from a glut, remained shaky though,

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that said, it has stabilised, and the recent selloff has stalled.

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A slight lack of direction on Wall Street at the end of Monday

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trading, the S and Dow closed fairly flat.

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Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is in London talking

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Traders will be tuning in to see in America's top Central Banker has

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anything to add on the Fed's decision earlier this month to raise

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interest rates for the third time since December.

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Now, her message is likely to emphasise that while the economy

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may not be overheating, the recovery in the US is strong

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enough for it to consider another rate hike this year.

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But will in-coming economic data reinforce that argument.

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Two pieces to watch this Tuesday is the case Shiller house price

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index as well as a report on consumer confidence.

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Meanwwhile Uber's search for a new CEO continues

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after the resignation of the founder Travis Kalanick last week.

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Among those reportedly in the running are former Yahoo CEO

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Marissa Mayer and Facebook's CEO, Cheryl Sandberg and the former Chief

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Joining us is Jane Foley, Senior Currency Strategist, Rabobank.

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You are doing markets with us, but I will mention a market related story

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that is now live -- that is on our live page. There was a dip in the

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gold price of 1.5% yesterday - tell us why and explain what fat fingered

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trade means. It means that the market has aggressively given as a

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price move. What happens is, there are various orders in the system

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that immediately get filled and the price moves back very aggressively.

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We call it a fat finger, which probably means somebody made a

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mistake. Literally, their finger is too fat and they have gone to press

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wonky and hit another one. It could have been that, or an extra zero,

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perhaps. Somebody somewhere is probably pretty embarrassed. When

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you do that... Sorry, but when you do that, I can imagine the horror if

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you had done that. Is there anyway to pull it back? It is likely

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someone is out of money somewhere. The system has a lot of trade stored

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up, so as soon as a certain price is hit, they get filled. Someone is

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very sadly probably out of pocket. You would think the system would

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detect unusual activity and flag it up before it is too late. The

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systems do have various safety nets all over the place, but you do

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sometimes see the sort of movement. We saw it with sterling not so long

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ago, with the gold market seven or eight years ago. It still happens.

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Today, we will hear from two big important people, the head of the

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Federal Reserve and the governor of the Bank of England. What we expect

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to hear? The Federal Reserve have been saying that they will raise

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interest rates this year, and three times next year, and they will start

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addressing their massive balance sheet which is a result of

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quantitative easing, by the end of this year. But the market is not

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convinced because the economic data in the US has been mixed,

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particularly in relation to inflation. The market expectation is

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that inflation will decline. This is why the market is not convinced, but

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the head of the Federal Reserve has insisted that inflation will rise as

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unemployment comes down. We will see. Thank you for the analysis.

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Would you buy your kids a backpack with wi-fi and GPS?

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We'll be talking to one businesswoman who is trying

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You're with Business Live from BBC News.

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50 years ago today, the world's first cash machine was installed

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outside a branch of Barclays in Enfield, London.

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Now there are 70,000 in the UK, and three million worldwide.

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The traditional 'hole in the wall' has come a long

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way in half a century, as Simon Gompertz reports.

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The first money from a hole in the wall.

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You put in a voucher and a code and you got ten ?1 notes.

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Reg Varney, a TV celebrity of the time, had a go

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Less a cash machine than a mini bank.

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On these ones, you can even open a bank account.

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Signing your name, it will take my photo as well just

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This one shows you if someone's looking over your shoulder

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to steal your pin code, reassurance you might want

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if they close your branch to replace it with a machine.

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We're moving towards and no bank branch era.

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We used to have about 20,000 bank branches in the UK

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Smart ATMs, as we're calling them, in the future will provide 99%

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of all the services that people can get from bank branches today.

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That is not a world everyone will welcome but the technology

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unleashed back in the '60s is still transforming the way

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This is a little quiz for you Ben. What do you think is 20% more

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expensive now than it was this time last year? Everything. That's how it

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feels. A grocery item. A grocery item. You might spread it on your

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toast. But ir. Very good! Butter is almost 20% more expensive than last

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year. Overall grocery inflation running at 3.2%. That's a lot to do

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with the fall in sterling, the general inflation that we're seeing

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and there is a picture of Lidl, the UK's fastest growing supermarket

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chain, sales growing there 18%. We are talking about the Western

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Digital bid for Toshiba, the chip business, there is more on that.

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It's all there, whenever you'd like to have a look.

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Or you can look at it via the app. Our top story, China's Premier Li

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Keqiang has been hailing the benefits of economic

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globalisation, saying it brings But he also warned the World

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Economic Forum in the north-east Chinese city of Dalian that fairness

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is essential or else people A quick look at how

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markets are faring. Slightly softer start to the

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beginning of the trading day across the main European indexes.

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And now let's get the inside track on a subject that will be music

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to every parent's ear - that is, being able to keep

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Well, our next company does just that with their range of unique

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Founded in 2009 by two working mums Gill Hayward and Kellie Forbes,

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They sell backpacks which transform into a portable entertainment system

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with a foldable desk. The bags are sold over the world.

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The company is now crowdfunding a new tech enabled bag

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With me is Gill Hayward, co-founder and director of YUU,

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a company that designs and produces a range of unique activity

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We have seen briefly images of the bag. We've got one here. This is the

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tech bag. It is, indeed. Quickly, it unzips. This comes down like a desk.

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There is lots of pockets. Lots of places for them to put their secret

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things and it's easy for the kids to carry. It's lightweight. You started

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off with a bag that wasn't tech enabled. You're crowdfunding for one

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that is. Explain to us how the crowdfunding process works? As a

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small business there are two challenges, resource and raising

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finance to bring the products to market. We have decided to reach out

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it our customers and supporters and help them crowdfund our new product.

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There is equity which we're not in this game or there is product raised

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crowdfunding. We are trying to bring the product to market with the help

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of people who pre-order in return for large discounts. They will buy

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the bag at a cheaper price and get it in nine months? Less than that.

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Because we're a children's product, Christmas is everything to us. We're

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crowdfunding now so we can deliver the product to market in time for

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November and December so Santa can deliver. Isn't the challenge trying

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to get kids away from tablets and smartphones. Surely that's what they

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want to be playing with and that's what you see a lot of parents using

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to keep them entertained? It is important that children can balance

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tech play and active play. When we designed the original range of

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products it was about did z kids being able to get out and about and

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do all the things they want to do with the entertainment on their

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back. We have snakes and ladders, pencils, pence and drawing and the

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kids love that as much, but they will spend time on screens. And we

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recognise that it's important now that the children can engage in tech

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in a more positive way. One of the reasons we created the GPs tracker

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bag was that children could track through as an add haven't turer and

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see where they have gone and count their steps and journeys and for

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parents it's about being able to track where the bag and the child.

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It's peace of mind. I can see the progression from the backpack that

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you created, you went on dragon's Den and you got funding and you

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thought how do we move on? A lot of stuff about tablets and wi-fi. This

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security element, the fact that parents can track their children, is

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that something that you have had mixed reviews on? I can imagine some

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parents would like that. Other people might be very against that. I

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think, you know, in this day and age most devices that people have, there

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is a tracking facility on it, you know, parents, most parents or

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carers have had that moment when a child has been late become from

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school and you felt very nervous so to be able to go o check the child's

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location or to check if a child has come in or out of a preset area or

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zone, the parents can do that on their app. Never lose the bag! Never

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lose the bag! Now, you have been running the business now for six or

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seven years, what would I say is the biggest challenge that you have

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faced? In the early days, it was actually managing demand. When we

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launched we sold our first products within minutes and we sold out our

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first container within weeks. In the early stages that challenge was

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being able to manage how do we get the production and meet the demand.

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Recently, it is in terms of fund-raising new product launches

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and grow the business if the way we want to and gain the finance and the

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working capital to be able to do that. You have launched your

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crowdfunding. You launched three weeks and you're almost half-way to

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what you need. Good luck with. Thank you very much for your time.

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In a moment, we'll take a look through the business pages,

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Let's see what other business stories the media have been taking

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an interest in. Dominic O'Connell is on set. We are going to talk about

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the Grenfell Tower cladding. The company that makes the product have

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suffered a fall in share price. It was one of the companies that was

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spun off it. It made the panelling Rimer Bond for 20 or 30 years.

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Yesterday it said it stopped selling their product for any high rise

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buildings. They said they were going to stop selling it because of

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disparities between different countries fire recognise lations

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which gives the view that they don't really take responsibility for how

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the product is used. They will sell it, but it is up to the locals to

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decide whether it complies with their fire regulations, but

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investors think it maybe in the firing line from the Grenfell Tower

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investigation. And in terms of the company's future... Well, it's a big

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company. It's a big company. One of the things we have learnt over the

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years from disasters is from victims, lawyers will always chase

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the money. The other companies involved in the Grenfell Tower

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refurbishment are small. Arconic is very big. If the investigation shows

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any failings in the cladding, they will probably go after the

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manufacturer. We want to talk about big anniversary. 50 years of the

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hole in the wall cash machines... 196 in Enfield. Who was the

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celebrity they had on hand to launch the first cash machine? I don't

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know. Reg Varny from On The Buses. I don't know. He is like a Russell

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Brand. It brings out the whole question of do we still like using

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cash? Do we prefer to do cash or contactless? There will be more cash

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machines because the number of bank branches are going down and super

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whizzy cash machines will do everything. I suspect with payment

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apps we will see fewer cash machines, not more and more. We have

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had lots of tweets on this. Dave says, "Always like to have some cash

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on me." He worries that cashless society would see the end of

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busking. Chris says paper money is needed. Lawrence prefers cashless

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wherever possible. Adrian says, "I always get caught out if I don't

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have cash on me." I dashed into the corner shop and I was told ?1.50 if

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I wanted to get cash. This is a good story in the FT

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showing how recession can lead to innovation. If you'd gone to Sao

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Paolo the traffic was so bad. In the wake of corruption allegations which

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brought one Government down and might bring another Government down,

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business activity has slowed down. Business in Brazil went backwards.

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Now the helipads are being used for exercise classes and parties.

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Finding another use for the toys of the rich and famous. Do you fancy

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yoga on top of a high rise building. No, not if you fell off the edge.

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No, thank you. That's it from us today. There will be more business

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news throughout the day on the BBC web page. We will have more business

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news for you tomorrow. Bye-bye. Hello there. Good morning. We have a

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rather unsettled week ahead. Lots of rainfall in the forecast and today,

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rainfall already across the northern half of the

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