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	Podcast:		World Business Report
	Episode:		US Trade Deficit Jumps
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:26:26
	Publish Date:		2019-03-06 10:18:00
	Description:		The US trade gap with the rest of the world jumped to a 10-year high of $621bn last year. Our regular economic commentator, New York-based business journalist Diane Brady, assesses how big a blow the widening trade gap is for President Trump. Also in the programme, a strike by airport workers in Kenya has caused widespread disruption across the country. We get the latest from our reporter in Nairobi. We have a report from New Zealand, asking what Brexit Britain can learn from the country's experience when the UK joined the forerunner to the European Union in the 1970s. As millions of Christians around the world prepare to give up something they normally enjoy for Lent, Ruth Valerio of the Christian charity Tearfund explains why they would like people to consider abandoning a piece of plastic. Plus, investment bank Goldman Sachs has said its staff can now dress casually if they want to. Texas etiquette expert Diane Gottsman gives us her reaction.
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