later we'll have a wrap up of this week's big economic stories with our correspondent andrew walker.rch in the daily telegraph has found well—qualified people who voluntarily talked about theirflaws injob interviews were more likely to win the role. today we want to know, what are your weaknesses? being gay perfectionist is not allowed! get in touch — just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. —— being a perfectionist. always horrible when that question comes up. we will share hours with you later. hello and welcome to business live. we start with the price of oil, because once again despite the best efforts of the oil producing nations to prop it up, it is on the slide. let's show you what's been happening. this week the talks all been about this guy — he's back. traders refer to a "bear market" when the price of an asset falls 20% from its recent peak. it often signals a loss of confidence and further falls to come. since the start of the year crude has done just that — it's down over 20% — from above $56 per barrel injanuary — to below m5 by the middle of this week. back in november the org

let's find out with our business correspondent andrew walker. nd been doing over the last we? it has been up and down, and what has caused the fluctuations? we had a striking move on tuesday when we got advanced indications of what would be in voting surveys in the next morning's papers. if you look at the graphs, it looks a sharp decline in fact it was half a cent of the dollar. that is because the survey indicated the vote was likely to be closer than people assumed and that the markets then took the view perhaps the prime minister is not going to have such a free hand, if it is theresa may, she might otherwise have expected and it might create more uncertainty about what will come out of the brexit negotiations. since then, background has been regained. certainly the general picture has been a continuing one of the pound is being significantly sensitive towards development on the political front. it has been a roller—coaster. is this uncertainty set to continue. i guess in ten days, two weeks, one uncertainty will be over, we will know the res

andrew walker, economics correspondent, thank you.le to run his company without migrant workers from the european union. he said among home—builders, european immigrants make up 12% of the workforce. british air race is in discussion with at about outsourcing some call centre operations. —— british airways. it is understood it would involve transferring two call centres, one in newcastle and one in manchester, who employ about 11100 people. baa has been criticised for aggressively cutting costs in the last few years. investors are seeking $399 million worth of damages from toshiba over an accounting scandal. two years ago the technology company admitted overstating profits for the last six yea rs. overstating profits for the last six years. it led to several senior executives standing down. the firm has been served with 26 complaints over the scandal and there are claims of $985 million. a quick look at the market. a lot of movement yesterday in text stocks, especially in the states. they really felt. they have mainly been driving a l

andrew walker is in our business newsroom. andrew, it is a familiar tale.n in profits, well up from the year before. what was down was the value of forward sales, down from three and a quarter billion pounds to two and three quarters. these results for the year up to the end of april, the company says there was quite a bit of disruption to the market around in the aftermath of the time of the referendum, but things have come back since then, the market, they say, has stabilised. in addition, particularly british by the let investors have been affected by the tax changes that have made the market less attractive to them, but that has been offset somewhat, is they say, by the decline in the value of sterling, which has made the market in london, their main focus, more attractive to international investors. looking forward , international investors. looking forward, they see some challenges from leaving the european union. about half the workforce they say on their site in london are from other parts of the eu, so clearly labour mobility will be an issue for t

lawyer seems so we'll follow the twists and turns early we discuss the prospects of bricks it with andrew walker he's a new york observer columnist he believes britain must be ready maybe in the day for a no deal scenario. it's going to be extremely difficult period of time obviously we know the general election in the u.k. was really very very messy so reason they wanted to increase a majority obviously she lost her overall majority so i think that will complicate things and make things a great deal more difficult but nonetheless i think the big risk for britain and indeed for europe is that process is demanding negotiations on money first and then the trade deal second now you know if we if experience is anything to go by brussels will fail to do the trade deal or do it incredibly slowly and i'm very worried that what's going to happen there is there will be a big push by the europeans to make sure they get their money and no push whatsoever although the thing that we want and i think that britain has to be ready to walk away from the negotiations with nothing on either side if necessary thank

andrew get arguments that it will discourage drug use. it will discourage people from getting help for the medical problems. >> we think this would be a big step backwards. >> however, a key element to walker'sis not someone who tests positive for drugs automatically gets rolled into a drug addiction treatment program at taxpayer expense. the only people refused public health benefits are those who refuse to be drug tested. the measure we need to be approved by the trump administration. it also needs to pass a state legislator as part of the overall state budget. that will happen later this summer. >> heather: thank you. >> leland: the opioid battle is raging and advocates are now looking to president trump to address the crisis. our guest worked for the u.s. department of health and human services. he is discussing a workable solution to this heartbreaking problem. plus, live pictures from the white house. we are waiting the daily briefing with scott pruitt. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation if my plans change. visit booking.com. booking.yeah. parts a and b and want more coverage, gue