Business Matters

Business Matters by BBC World Service

BBC World Service

Global business and finance news and discussion from the BBC.

Categories: Business

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The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visits Haiti. The country is under a state of emergency as gangs try to expand their control over the capital, and other regions. We get the latest.

As Elon Musk's X is banned in Brazil, rival BlueSky gains ground in the South American nation. We talk to its CEO, Jay Graber.

Four years after being left paralysed by the Covid-19 pandemic, has the cruise ship industry fully recovered? We find out.

And we get an insight on how airplane seats are made.

Roger Hearing discusses these and more business stories with two guests on opposite sides of the world: Emily Peck, markets correspondent for Axios, in New York, and James Mayger, Bloomberg's senior reporter, in Beijing.

Previous episodes

  • 2282 - US Secretary of State visits Haiti to discuss democratic transition 
    Fri, 06 Sep 2024
  • 2281 - President Biden could block Nippon Steel acquisition of US steel 
    Thu, 05 Sep 2024
  • 2280 - Nvidia shares fall 
    Wed, 04 Sep 2024
  • 2279 - Donors and the US election 
    Tue, 03 Sep 2024
  • 2278 - Social media platform X suspended in Brazil 
    Sat, 31 Aug 2024
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