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August 30, 2022 Flood-stricken Pakistan appeals for economic support
Islamabad will receive a $1.1bn loan to boost the economy, but as deadly floods disrupt the country's recovery more will be needed from international sources. Monsoon rains have left more than 1,000 people dead, and a third of Pakistan's territory under water. We hear more from economist Ammar Khan in Karachi.
Germany’s free public transport (take out hyphens!) programme is in its final days. The scheme is meant to help reduce the use of energy amid a supply crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine and Germany’s reliance on Russian gas. We talk to Christian Boettger from the University of Applied Science in Berlin.
As the cost of energy reaches record highs, leaders of the European Union discuss emergency measures to curb energy bills. Suzanne Lynch from Politico in Brussels tells us more.
Nuclear waste can stay radioactive for thousands of years, but Sweden says they have now found a better way to dispose of it. The BBC’s Theo Leggett reports.
Amazon has produced the most expensive series ever made: The Rings of Power. The latest release from the Lord of the Rings (take out apostrophe) saga will premiere this week. LA Times’s entertainment reporter Anousha Sakoui tells us more.
Will Bain is joined throughout the programme by James Mayger, China Economics Reporter at Bloomberg in Beijing, and Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist at Invesco in New York City.
(Picture: A man, victim of the flood, stands amid the rubble of his damaged house, following rains and floods during the monsoon season, in Jafarabad. Picture credit: reuters)
50 min
August 27, 2022 US stock markets down after Powell's interest rate warning
Stock markets in the US ended the week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country's central bank, the Federal Reserve.
Warner Brothers Discovery has shelved the nearly completed Batgirl movie in a series of cancellations and major changes involving high-profile DC projects.
Moderna said it is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement linked to the development of the first Covid-19 vaccines.
California is to ban the sale of new petrol-only vehicles by 2035, which is aimed at forcing car makers to accelerate the introduction to the market of cleaner vehicles.
(Powell's words sent US stocks into a tailspin. Credit: Getty Images)
54 min
August 26, 2022 US faces second consecutive quarter of economic decline
Roger Hearing is joined by ABC broadcaster Sinead Mangan in Australia and Forbes editor Steven Bertoni in the US.
GDP in the US fell at an annualised rate of 0.6% in the three months from April to June, a welcome improvement on the government’s initial estimate of 0.9%.
Canada’s federal government says it will not extend the annual bonus paid to bilingual employees, to workers who speak an Indigenous language on the job. But Canada has more than 60 Indigenous languages, and about 500 federal employees frequently speak an Indigenous language on the job. So can their budget stretch this far, or is it time to ditch the bonus all together?
Channel 4’s content boss Ian Katz has said the relaunches of old television shows such as Big Brother and Gladiators are “depressing”. But is he right? Entertainment commentator Gita Amar shares her thoughts.
(Picture: A graph is pictured before the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 14, 2019 in New York City. Picture Credit: Getty Images).
51 min
August 25, 2022 Ukraine: The economic impact on the arms industry
In total, the US has committed more than $13.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, so how have arms manufacturers done during the crisis?
Another big handout from the US government is going to some of the nation's former students who have huge loan debts. President Joe Biden has announced a relief package, forgiving $10,000 in debt for borrowers who earn less than $125,000 per year.
Pink Floyd have become the latest music legends to have multi-million dollar bids for their back catalogue, some reaching almost half a billion dollars. If it works they could be joining music stars Neil Young , Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks who have also opted to cash out and hand over the rights of their songs to corporations like Hipgnosis, Sony and Primary Wave.
Roger Hearing is joined by Joint Managing Partner of TSMP Law Stefanie Yuen Thio in Singapore and Chief Investment Officer at Greenwood Capital Walter Todd in South Carolina.
(Photo: US President Joe Biden comments before signing The Inflation Reduction Act in the State Dining Room of the White House August 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. Picture Credit: Getty Images)
53 min
August 24, 2022 Former head of security blows the whistle on Twitter
Roger Hearing is joined by independent business journalist for The Tribune newspaper Sushma Ramachandran in New Delhi, and Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at the firm Circle, Dante Disparte in Washington.
Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.
Apple begins production of its latest fleet of smartphones. Reports suggest that the iPhone 14 will be majority-manufactured in India. We hear from Bloomberg reporter Saritha Rai in Bangalore.
Six months on since the start of the war in Ukraine, football has returned to the country, despite the war. Andrew Todos is a British Ukrainian sports journalist, who was at the opening fixture.
(Picture: In this photo illustration a Twitter logo seen displayed on an android smartphone. Picture Credit: Getty Images).
51 min
August 23, 2022 Elon Musk subpoenas Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey
Sam Fenwick is joined by President of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race, Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe and Director of the Center for Conflict Management at Ewha University in Seoul, Professor Jasper Kim.
Elon Musk subpoenas co-founder Jack Dosey as part of his legal dispute with Twitter as he tries to pull out of a deal to purchase Twitter for 44 billion dollars. The BBC’s North America business correspondent, Michelle Fleury joins us from New York.
China is offering special loans to combat the country’s housing crisis, but is a drought putting further pressure on the country’s economy?
Coldplay’s current tour “Music of the Spheres” aims be as sustainable as possible. So could this be the future of world music tours? We hear from Seth Wines from Concordia University in Montreal, who researches consumer behaviour and climate change.
(Picture: PARIS, FRANCE - APRIL 26: In this photo illustration, the Elon Musk’s Twitter account is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of the homepage of the Twitter website on April 26, 2022 in Paris, France. Picture Credit: Getty Images).
56 min
August 20, 2022 Consumer confidence weakens across the world
Soaring prices fuel pessimism about the future. In countries like the UK, shoppers' opinion about the outlook for their finances hits four-decade low. We hear more from retail analyst Rachel Barber and FHN Financial's Wall Street markets analyst Chris Low.
The second largest cinema chain in the world has seen its shares plummet sharply after fears it might file for bankruptcy in the US spread across the markets. We talk to Wall Street Journal's Alexander Gladstone, who broke the story.
The war in Ukraine, drought, poor harvests and lack of labour have pushed up prices of vegetable oil, the second most important source of calories globally. The BBC's Anish Ahluwalia reports about this problem in India, the world's biggest importer.
American and European firms are now much more proactive at looking for women or Black or Asian staff when recruiting. The BBC's Vivienne Nunis has been speaking about this with Kellogg Foundation's CEO La June Montgomery Tabron, the first woman and also the first African American to lead the foundation.
Chanel no. 5's owner has seen its request to trademark the shape of the famous bottle rejected. A US court has deemed that the rectangular shaped bottle with bevelled sides is not distinctive enough. Tilar Mazzeo, author of "The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume" explains the history of the legendary perfume.
Sam Fenwick discusses these and more business stories throughout the programme with guests on opposite sides of the world: Andy Uhler, a reporter for Marketplace in Austin, Texas, and Zyma Islam, a journalist with the Daily Star in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Picture: Shoppers in London. Picture credit: EPA )
50 min
August 19, 2022 Trump Organization's CFO pleads guilty on tax crimes
Allen Weisselberg, who has worked for Donald Trump for almost 50 years, will now have to testify against the Trump Organization after reaching a settlement, and pleading guilty to tax crimes. We hear more from the BBC's Nada Tawfik and American legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks.
The US is to begin talks with Taiwan to reduce trade barriers in fields like agriculture and e-commerce. The announcement comes amid tensions with China, which has been conducting military exercises since the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's unexpected visit to the self-ruled island. Scott Kennedy, senior advisor in Chinese business & economics at CSIS, tells us more.
Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest ever investment to fight climate change in the United States. Roger Hearing discusses its implications with guests Kimberly Adams, co-host of Marketplace's podcast 'Make Me Smart', joining us from Washington, and Simon Littlewood, president of AC Growth Delivered in Singapore.
The UK's National Farmers Union is warning consumers that weather conditions suffered this summer will translate into wonky vegetables on supermarket shelves. We talk to Tom Holder from the British Retail Consortium.
(Picture: Allen Weisselberg. Picture credit: EPA)
50 min
August 18, 2022 Are interest rates the key to reducing inflation?
Roger Hearing is joined by senior reporter at the Huffington Post Alexander Kaufman from New York and Moneeza Butt, partner at KPMG Pakistan in Karachi.
The US Federal Reserve say rates will continue to go up in the short term but there is still a long road ahead.
Elon Musk’s tweets suggesting that he wanted to buy Manchester United caused markets to briefly jump by as much as 17%, before Musk clarified it was a joke.
Since 2019 AirBnb has banned parties advertised on social media. Last year, they began trying "anti-party technology" in Australia and now the company plans to roll it out in the US and Canada as well.
(Picture: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2022. Picture Credit: Getty Images).
50 min
August 17, 2022 Tech giants reveal algorithm secrets to Beijing
Roger Hearing is joined by writer and journalist Karen Percy in Melbourne, and Founder of AI firm Complete Intelligence, Tony Nash, in Houston.
They discuss the tech giants in China that have shared details of their algorithms with Beijing for the first time.
The first day of campaigning is getting under way in Brazil’s presidential elections, due to take place on the Second of October. What is the impact on the economy?
The Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, has confirmed his predecessor secretly held five parliamentary roles undertaken in the two years before losing power in May earlier this year. Meanwhile, in the US voters in Wyoming are expected to oust Liz Cheney from her seat in Congress in Republican primary elections taking place on Tuesday.
(Picture: BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 14: Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. signage is displayed outside the company's offices on July 14, 2022 in Beijing, China. Picture Credit: Getty Images).
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