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Business Matters: The Clinton Email Saga Continues

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The Clinton Email Saga Continues

01/11/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, The Clinton Email Saga Continues

Hillary Clinton's email use; how Nafta impacted US textile towns; Ivory Coast's boom

Examining Hillary Clinton's email use and its political implications; how Nafta impacted US textile towns and their major industry; why Ivory Coast's economy is full of beans.

Election Day is a week tomorrow in the United States. Research by the influential Pew Research Center suggests that as many as 50 million Americans may already have voted by Tuesday 8 November. So how important will last Friday's revelation by the director of the FBI that it is looking into new emails possibly linked to Hillary Clinton be? Her main rival, Donald Trump, is certainly loving it, prompting Secretary Clinton to make yet another defence to her followers. Jordan Fabian of The Hill brings us the latest developments.

We take a look at the real issues affecting voters in the US election - the humble pair of blue jeans. There used to be more than a dozen denim factories across the States - but manufacturing has experienced a decline. Some blame international free trade deals. Samira Hussain reports from Columbus, Georgia.

People in the Ivory Coast voted in a referendum yesterday on changes to the constitution. President Alassane Ouattara said abolishing stringent requirements about the national identity of presidential candidates would end years of unrest and help maintain economic stability. Growth in Ivory Coast has averaged a steady annual rate of 9% over the past five years - with the world's number one cocoa producer profiting from a return to peace after a nasty period of political crisis. The BBC's James Copnall returns to the country and reports from the economic capital Abidjan. 

In America, the issue of discrimination is the subject of research by investigators from the University of Washington, MIT and Stanford - who have come to the conclusion that black travellers have to wait longer for an Uber ride - while passengers with African-American sounding names had their trips cancelled twice as often as those with white-sounding names. As for the rival company Lyft, the research found no statistically significant difference in waiting times. We hear the views of Dr Darrick Hamilton, who teaches at The New School in New York.

The best inventions are always those you can't imagine living without. The washing machine, for instance, or the 160GB iPod. But almost everyone would probably say their smart phone falls into that category. So what happens when you lose it? Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times reports on what happened recently when she suffered a bout of 'phone-lessness.'

Our guests today are Diane Brady, a former writer at Bloomberg Businessweek and the Wall Street Journal, and Simon Littlewood, president at Asia Now consulting group, in Singapore.

(Photo: Hillary Clinton Campaigns In Ohio ahead of US election. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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