you stayed at pwc? eleanor price they there for at pwc?et up my own firm so i work for myself. do you look back and think, it would've been more fun be at university? do you regret that? definitely not for me. from the experiences i got, the training, the experiences i got, the training, the personal development, you make friends and it is a lot of fun to be around people, it is a great atmosphere. i don't regret not going to university. one of the things you got was financial security. at pwc will get paid reasonably well. what kind of advice addicott now that you are an independent tax adviser? are there ways in which apprenticeships, if they are working in humble jobs, can they get any financial advice? yes, absolutely. they can claim deductions per any of the expenses theyincur deductions per any of the expenses they incur as a result of their work. hairdressers, for example, can claim deductions for scissors, uniforms. mechanics can claim deductions for spammers. look on the hmrc website. you can definitely claim the tax back. sofia t

he is a senior economist at pwc england. whh is swededen the gold standad here, what makes their labor environnent so inducing to gender parity? other countries are consistently top performers on the index and t tirrsuccessss hs been made popossib by family-frrenendly policicies an% cultlttre that a acknowledgegese work anddsuppoporr themselelves. parental generous safety nets.nd strong social to create an environment where%- women and men can succeed and work. if other western countries outside of the region were to catch up to the nordic level what could they stand to gain in terms of gdp accccording to ther study and how w would that work? progress has been n slow. our progress echoes the messages from the u.n. report. one of the reasons is the geeder it is taking a really long time to make improvements there. gap can lead o gains of around $2 trillion. simply getting more women into or $7 trillion. the big question is how do we get there. the policy environment is clearly vevery important.. more% businesses attracting gr

andrew gray is global head of brexit at consultancy pwc.plications and the implications of those moves and the money that is now leaving the uk is already happening and yourjob is to advise firms on how to do that, what they may do and what their strategy may be. what are you telling them right now? the legal default as we know, unless something changes we end up with the hard brexit on the 29th of march. we have been working with clients since the referendum looking at the options and providing advice in terms of what they need to locate, how to think about their businesses. that applies to uk firms that trade with europe at european firms that trade with the uk. that move is already under way regardless of what happens over the next ten days. those people are going or have gone. do any of those come back if we do get a deal and there is a change in the circumstances and maybe we don't leave the eu at all? firms have had to set up with different licenses and looking at the supply chain. some of those changes have ta ken the supply chain. s

and here with me to break it all down this morning, pollster, lee carter, pwc president, mitch rochellcome one and all. coming up this morning, current board member of acreage holdings, john boehner, the ceo of acreage holdings, kevin murphy as well. you don't want to miss that interview. our top story this hour, boeing in crisis, the justice and transportation departments now probing the boeing 737 max jets. this is according to reports in the wall street journal. a grand jury reportedly issuing a subpoena to at least one person involved in the 737 max's development. the fatal ethiopian airlines crash comes less than six months after the same type of aircraft from boeing crashed in indonesia and the similarities between the two incidents keep growing. boeing could get hit with even greater legal trouble this time around after failing to resolve defects following the first crash in october. joining us now, fox senior -- fox news senior judicial analyst, we said senior twice, andrew napolitano. [ laughter ] > dagen: senior squared this morning. >> good morning. dagen: it was an incredib

billion. 14 is the number of places the united states has dropped in the rankings since 2000 and it pwcy. five is a number of nordic countries in the top spots. $6 trillion, pwc says increasing female employment across nations could increase gross domestic product. 27 is the place china would rank it was included in the survey. is a great chart and we will talk more about some of the gender balance index. first, let's get straight to the bloomberg business flash. bank anddeutsche commerzbank are reportedly intensifying merger discussions. bloomberg understands recent setbacks for the two banks at into the urgency to repeal. the idea of a merger between tw biggest banks waso. vendors to sell directly to consumers. it takes more money that way by uploading the cost of supporting products. the pentagon is reportedly reviewing elon musk's security clearance. bloomberg understands he has three filed his security for. it requires federal contractors to acknowledge illegal drug use. women are massively underrepresented at the world central banks. out of 173 thanks, just 14 are headed by women.

it is the oakland education association pwc their talk is keith brown.ident of oea and they have been filling us in on the tentative deal that is been reached among the teachers union and the school district, and we'll have more details coming up here in a moment at the top of the 5:00. >>> ktvu fox 2 news at 5 starts now. >>> it is news. teachers and the oakland school district have been waiting for. the teachers union and the district have come to a tentative agreement. this agreement comes after a seventh day of missed classes. >> within the last 15 minutes, the teachers union discussed the tentative deal, calling the strike historic.

it is the oakland education association pwc their talk is keith brown. he the president of oea and they have been filling us in on the tentative deal that is been reached among the teachers union and the school district, and we'll have more details coming up here in a moment at the top of the 5:00. >>> ktvu fox 2 news at 5 starts now. >>> it is news. teachers and the oakland school district have been waiting for. the teachers union and the district have come to a tentative agreement. this agreement comes after a seventh day of missed classes. >> within the last 15 minutes, the teachers union discussed the tentative deal, calling the strike historic. >> in spite of up the employer who said that the sky is falling, that they could not pay for a living wage, that they could not pay for lower class sizes, they couldn't -- they were saying they could not make the investments for needed student support such as nurses, counselors, psychologists, and speech therapists, educators supported by parents, supported by labor, supported by the community, prevailed. our

joining the conversation dagen mcdowell as usual, pwc partner mitch roschelle and maslansky + partnerssident lee carter, great to see everybody this morning. >> great to be here. maria: what a day, mueller report is out. >> it's out, no question. >> it's fascinating to see how people are reacting and on one hand people are thrilled, finally this is over, the president is free and clear and then there's other who look at it and say, we don't know what really happen. maria: they want the narrative to be true. lee: it's amazing, though, what do they need to hear? dagen: medication that they need to go up to clear on delusion that they live in that individuals both in government outside of government who used to work in government and then the media, they lied to the american people for more than 2 years, they stole the american people, what medication can they take now to get over their delusion. people should be infuriated by what's going on in the country. maria: i have been infuriated for the last 2 years and i have been vocal about that and i'm happy to see the vindication this mornin

pwc says ceo's are most worried about brexit, rising interest rates, and slowing global growth, but agilityealing with those risks. the chairman spoke exclusively to bloomberg on the sidelines of the china development forum. >> we have more uncertainty around brexit than ever before. we have the interest rate environment that continues to evolve in polarizing ways. and you definitely have a slowing economy with more and more signs coming its way. the ceo's are concerned about what does that mean and how do i manage through that? now, i have to compete. which means more market share competition and it means definitely potential for margin compression as they look ahead. there are questions on where am i going to find that growth. >> in terms of the central banks and monetary policy, to what extent does a dovish -- a more dovish fed insulate some of those businesses from some of the headwinds? >> two things are inevitable. when you look at the last 10 years, an artificially low interest rate environment has protective -- protected a lot of companies. today, we are going to have that problem.

we bring in pwc partner business development leader membership rochelle. mitch, good to see you.l street will have the weekend to digest it. does it matter for the opening on monday? >> probably not, leland. i think this is the super bowl inside the beltway, and on monday it's going to be monday on wall street. so it's really not a huge event. and they've been anticipating it. markets like certainty, and the fact that the report is out is certain, what's in it is not, but they like certainty, and this is a step closer to putting this behind us. leland: when it comes to other possibilities, the fact that there weren't major indictments close to the president's circle probably is the contra-positive of certainty, right? had this been really bad for the administration, might not have been so good for the markets. >> you're probably right, leland. i think if there was something there, the markets would be reacting over the weekend, but they're not because right now we don't know what's in there. if you look at it from a historical perspective, towards the end of the nixon administrat

john: the next question is from pwc china. thank you.iscussed here including the multilateral approaches to global challenges. what is your ask of business leaders? chan. merkel: well, from the leaders from the business tomunity, i would ask them see the great challenges and factor, for example, climate change that we have in the world today, and factor them into their policies, that they stand up for fair and equitable taxation. quite often, leaders of business have a better idea of the technical possibilities in certain areas then we politicians. businessleaders in share this knowledge with us and the less they protected and hold it close to their chest and then presented as a big surprise, this concept of a social market economy to which we are committed is actually one where both sides of industry shoulder responsibility, not only politicians. question is from the japanese g20. behind you. >> thank you very much. i think carbon tax is very important to achieve a green economy, however developing countries in asia are struggling to ch

arrested in december for allegedly misleading banks about huawei's dealing, joining the conversation pwc roschelle and republican pollster kristin anderson, thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning. maria: the huawei story is getting bigger and bigger since the u.s. is out trying to send a message to people that the huawei telecom makes you vulnerable, we will see where it goes. >> trying to send a message to the risk of the world who is looking to get 5g, maybe 6g, huawei is trading partners with that. maria: even though we have seen multitude of lawsuits where u.s. companies have sued huawei and settled, huawei continues to say that there have been no intrusions on friday u.s. security officer, campaign against the company. mike pompeo had just come back from europe and he talked about the threats because he was trying to do his own pr campaign throughout europe telling european countries, if you have huawei telecom, you will get less information from the united states. >> well, obviously the u.s. has been in global campaign to try to stop companies and countries from using hu