studio: thanks, michael hewson at cmc markets. few bits and pieces online, quite a few bits and pieces on german growth, the slowdown in german growth, and what has been causing it, if you want to have a look at that on the bbc breakfast pages. your‘re watching business live — our top story: business leaders will be going to number 10 downing street later to be briefed on the draft brexit withdrawal agreement. but they say it will not change their contingency planning. now let's get the inside track on the industry of veganism. november is world vegan month, which aims to promote a growing trend among consumers. the global market for vegetarian/vegan products was worth $51 billion in 2016. that is getting even bigger. in britain, the vegan society says the number of vegans has quadrupled since 2014. demand for meat—free food increased by 987% in 2017, according to online food order and delivery service just eat. 0ur guest today founded the vegan food brand, bravura, in 2011 after struggling to find any good vegan products on the m

so let's cross right over to london to michael hewson is the chief market analyst at c.m.c. markets michael you've probably listened to the debate in parliament this lunchtime what was your impression is this the break that we're going to see. i think really that still considered by i mean one of the things that i think campaigns have been very good at has been telling people what they don't want to say but ultimately it doesn't change the options in front of them and ultimately they all this deal that was negotiated by prime minister and i no deal all staying in the new the calculus hasn't changed it's old so an awful lot of they say is politics now the big question is a thing you talked about the day on reveling there doesn't appear to be any support in the parliament for this deal going through the labor party opposition have also said that they will vote against it. in essence that gives them pays a very difficult problem does not it is sort of it points to an impasse in a in a way does that make you a no deal breaker more likely you think. well i think that is the calcul

michael hewson. e bank of england is bringing forward stress tests for banks so they can talk about financial stability and what the bank of england will do in the case of no brexit, they want that information out before the vote in parliament early in december. they were originally for the 5th of december, i guess they are bringing forward to next week. no date, but earlier than expected, so mps undoes all can have an informed choice to make. it is quite topical given the declines in bank share prices over the past few days over concerns about brexit and given a mr carney will testify today to the treasury select committee i would say it would probably get quite a few questions on that, notwithstanding the fact that mps will want his outlook for the uk economy, given the uncertainty surrounding the withdrawal agreement and the fact that mps may or may not vote for it. what is interesting within the last 24 hours is that the dup, the conservative government rise on four votes in the uk, they didn't ba

cheryl: none of it looked really good, michael hewson. thank you.good morning to you. maria: good morning, ladies, thank you so much. happy wednesday, good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, wednesday november 28th, top stories right now before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. president trump versus fed chairman jay powell, the president lashing out at powell again in new interview with the washington post, comes ahead of highly-anticipated speech today from jay powell this afternoon. 12 noon, meanwhile g20 countdown is on, the focus on president trump's working dinner with chinese president xi jinping on saturday. the question is whether they make a deal on trade is still up in the air. and then there's this, a new threat for general motors. >> there's disappointment that seems like gm would rather build electric cars in china rather than the united states, we are going to be looking at certain subsidies regarding electric cars and others whether they should apply or not. maria: president trump confirming that possibility, w