he is from kpmg.work, is that necessarily a bad thing? for some people, the flexibility is a real upside. yes, pros and cons with different types, but ultimately, we are looking at permanent placements asa are looking at permanent placements as a vote of confidence by businesses in terms of the long—term prospects of their business and their ability to make longer term plans and for the majority of businesses in the uk, it is really the permanent placements that indicate how confident they are in the short term future of the economy and how confident they are in making those plans. is it as simple as saying, dare i say, get brexit done estimate let us remove that phrase. get the election over and things will change again? —— get brexit done? we are hoping the election in particular is putting quite a lot of big clouds on plans at the moment and once that is done and we have a clearer view of what government is planning to do for the next year or so and hopefully also some plans that go beyond brexit i

constance hunter of kpmg, subadra rajappa of socgen.ator of inflation and breakevens, or is that not really part of the story anymore? a spike orif you saw fall in oil prices, that is going to impact headline inflation, but that is one of the reasons we don't always look at that. economists look at core inflation, the fed looks at core inflation. nothing cures high prices like high prices. if you see high prices, you see a fall in demand, and eventually those prices come back into line. subadra: generally speaking, there shouldn't be a correlation. if you look at 10 year breakevens in oil, you do see a correlation between oil prices and breakevens. that shouldn't exist, and that is why we look at five-year forwards, five year breakevens. but generally speaking, there is some impact from higher oil prices on breakevens. -- it's beenis more volatile in the range. they haven't broken out any meaningful way. if you do see a breakout, there is a spike in oil prices, you definitely see breakevens higher. alix: i want to get your take on do yo

sue bonney, who's a senior partner at kpmg, joins me now. good morning.his analysis coming from amnesty international today obviously timed to happen when the summit is happening in madrid, when greta trombetta is going to speak and grab all the headlines, but there is nothing in there that we don't already know, would you say —— thunberg. we talk about generation 2 putting it at the top of the agenda, but if you are some that question two years ago, i would have said they were obsessed by disruption and data. right now in the summer we surveyed the ceos in the lightest organisations in climate was right at the top of the list. for the cyber security in a type of thing. what are industry doing? they are having to listen to all stakeholders, investors, customers and staff. that is meaning they have to think holistically across a whole thing. it is not about oil companies and renewables. it is about any business really thinking responsibly about how it is consuming, what the supply chain looks like and it means they have to work differently and collaborate

are you ta ke kpmg. —— lets speak now. are you take outan? kpmg. —— lets speak now.very convenient for people to order through the apps and there are huge amounts of choice which weren't available before. ten years ago, you would order a pizza or go to your local curry house or chinese, but now there is an abundance of choice from high street brands, it is very easy to order, and that's why people are ordering more. i don't want to cast any aspersions on your age, but idid cast any aspersions on your age, but i did notice that the big growth in this sector is the 18—34 sector, and i wondered about your children there, and how they order their food, whether it is in apps, or what they are still picking up the phone? i noticed in your research, picking up i noticed in your research, picking up the phone and ordering are still the most popular way to do it. up the phone and ordering are still the most popular way to do itm certainly is. 53% still order by phone, highest in the over 55 age category, which i hasten to add, i am not quite in yet! my children are actually a

consultants kpmg say people in britain order an average of 34 meals a year.ke went to be the world pass on because company just like that. went to be the world pass on because companyjust like that. crazy, isn't it. most people are thinking who are they? well, they are comfortably the world's biggest listed firm. the evaluation of 1.9 trillion is big enough to include google and amazon and still have a chunk of change of $200 billion for a nice little holiday or whatever you want do with it. near monopoly on oil production in sa — world's biggest exporter of oil in the world. shares started to trade more freely this week. 98% owned by the state still in one capacity or another — that huge valuation has been a long time coming. the crown prince has helped for plans as increased foreign direct investment. this was pa rt foreign direct investment. this was part of that big plan, but it has been hampered by all sorts of things like lower oil places, climate change prices. geopolitical risk. and of course the massive diplomatic incident we had with the murder of j

kpmg has confirmed that clintons, the greeting cards retailer, has been sold out of administration tocharge. so it‘s been a good day for the pound and the ftse 100. seven for the pound and the ftse100. month high for thi against seven month high for the pound against the dollar and its highest level against the euro since may, 2017. stirling, many analysts think, hasjumped 2017. stirling, many analysts think, has jumped after opinion polls suggest the uk will avoid a hung parliament during the december election next week. —— pound sterling. the ftse 100 election next week. —— pound sterling. the ftse100 has sustained, managing to snap the four—day losing straight because usually, because so many of the companies that make up the ftse100 earn in dollars, it usually does better when the pound is weak. but, it‘s important to note that it has done well today but it has not done as well as lots of other european indices out there including the ftse 250, usually made up of other smaller british companies. more detail now on this. we can speak with the director of minerva analysis. good to s

shows that fewer staff are being placed into permanent roles according to the novemberjob monitor from kpmgigns of a waning jobs market ahead of brexit and next week's general election. and we've just had a snapshot about what is happening in the united states — the keenly awaited jobs figure — non farm payrolls — which investors use as a bit of a barometre on the health of the world's largest economy. the recent release of an all round stellar jobs report vivienne nunis is at the nyse for us. you've been covering the story, tell me more about this report and what it shows about us economy. there was a headline figure of 266,000 new jobs added for the month of november here in the us. that was well above a nalyst here in the us. that was well above analyst expectations. if you look closely at the bigger, 40,000 of those jobs can be treated to the gm workers. we talked a lot about that strike in the month of october at general motors factories. they return to work in november, so that asa return to work in november, so that as a little bit of a bounce to this figure, but if you take out of t