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In the row over Donald Trumps state visit to britain later this year. He said hes strongly opposed to the president addressing mps and lords in westminster. Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. Better times ahead. Toyota revises its Profit Forecast. We find out why. And how much of your Household Budget goes to your kids . Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Guy could you still might go you could join us for Asia Business report, im rico hizon glad you could join us. T...

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To teachers. — talk about nurses, but extending out to teachers, ambulance workers, 100,000 — to teachers, ambulance workers, 100,000 of them on track as well. this will— 100,000 of them on track as well. this will be — 100,000 of them on track as well. this will be all over the place, real work— this will be all over the place, real work is, you have strict every day in _ real work is, you have strict every day in the — real work is, you have strict every day in the run—up to chri...

He said you are go to support a low interest environment. he has -- i think the president is right to criticize the federal reserve. >> i want to keep you around for another block to see if you are in support of reasonable reform. hard to say no on national tv. what i am saying is this. i want to go to break right now, but i want to talk about what is the chance of something happening? the president has come at it two different ways. why and where may we get it? it has to be of interest to a maj...

Whats happened to all the deficit hawks that were in the republican party? >> well, to your earlier point, were in a cultive personality right now. trump is very, very strong personality and nobody wants to be on the receiving end of a bad trump tweet. but its incumbent on all of us to simply go out and say the truth, which is we cant stay on the train were on. the trillion dollar number you just mentioned, you know, thats the tip of the iceberg. that presumes that we stay in this low interest e...

>> the economy is strong in terms of the metrics of employment. its a seller be strong in terms of employment rate for minorities, women and so on. we look at business investments, thats declining. >> chris: mollie? >> weve been told years that terrace would destroy the economy. after donald trump , anything can change, but our predictors are pretty wrong. the democrats need the economy to be problematic so they can run on that and the economy keeps blooming. >> whats going on is the fed are pro...

The health of businesses and manufacturing and spending among businesses. and when businesses hold back on their spending, what happens? they start laying off people, they start cutting those capex spending plans as we say. and that shrinks the economy and that is not what they want to see. >> back before the recession, interest rates were at 5%, bank rate -- best bank rate is about 3% higher than that. so a good customer was paying about 8% for a loan back then. and then this cliff was the rese...

Maybe you go around it backwards. raise deficits as an excuse to cut social programs. the fact is im not sure people care all that much about deficits be a great discussion to have because when deficits give you a good return on your investment, james, would you agree they can be useful? in a low interest environment, you go into deficit financing because you are rebuilding fantastic infrastructure and youre getting higher taxes -- >> its what youre spending -- its what youre spending the money ...

To make money in a low interest environment, everybody piles in the stock market. that played a huge role in the huge gains the markets have seen since march of 2009, end of the great recession. the federal reserve typically raises rates when an economy starts to get hot or prices like inflation start to rise too fast. thats what the fed rate hike is doing now because the economy they deem to be strong enough to handle modest rate increases. 25 basis points at a time. one quarter percentage poin...