Business Daily
Examining the big issues facing the global economy, Business Daily demystifies the world of money. From giant industries like aviation and automotive to the smallest scale start-up, Business Daily asks the big questions about free trade, technology and investment. There is also analysis of management and marketing trends, and what business jargon really means - together with reports on business news from around the world via the BBC's global network of reporters.
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Recent episodes (5)
Capitalism after the fall of the wall 09 Nov 09
Mon, 9 Nov 09
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19 minsTwenty years after the fall of the Wall, Business Daily reports from the old East Germany on whether Western promises that the East would flourish have been fulfilled Lucy Hooker takes a tour around Dresden, the capital of Saxony. And Lucy Kellaway wonders if drug dealers make perfect business gurus. They manage cash flow and zero interest rates so well: lessons from the world of rap.
Ostalgie 06 Nov 09
Fri, 6 Nov 09
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19 minsBusiness Daily goes behind the old Iron Curtain to sample business life twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We'll talk to East German consumers who like East German goods. Steve Evans talks to a Hungarian who's done nicely from capitalism - but fears that his fellow citizens just don't get it. And John Cassidy of the New Yorker unravels the US economy.
Guinea 05 Nov 09
Thu, 5 Nov 09
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19 minsIn Business Daily today a special insight into the complex back room dealings of a government battling for its political survival. We are in Guinea, West Africa which is resource rich but cash poor, where they recently announced a $7 billion mining deal, but is the deal worth the paper it's written on and can the economy survive international condemnation?
Thinking Inside The Box 4 Nov 2009
Wed, 4 Nov 09
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19 minsThe BBC has tracked a shipping container for a year. It's now home, sitting in a car-park at BBC headquarters, and we broadcast from inside. Hear the box's story as it crossed the planet, carrying everything from bathroom scales to cat food. What does its journey to Shanghai, Los Angeles, New York, Yokohama and Brazil say about world trade? How did our planet come to have a single sized container for trains, ships and trucks and in all parts of the world? And what does happen when containers from China reach Europe and America full of Chinese exports but have nothing to return with? Business Daily broadcasts from inside the BBC box with answers to all these questions and we hear from Marc Levinson who wrote "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger".
Debate about news on the web 3 Nov 09
Tue, 3 Nov 09
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19 minsRupert Murdoch criticised websites that offer links to his news free to readers. Many newspaper publishers say that they spend fortunes on teams of reporters who dig and write, but the results of their work then appear on other websites known as "aggregators". The aggregators argue they're serving the public interest and sending readers to newspapers' sites. One of them is Google News which aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources all over the world, grouping similar stories together according to what it's worked out is a particular reader's taste. Google News' senior business product manager, Josh Cohen, responds to Mr Murdoch's views. And the Rapper 50 Cent on his business model. Does being shot nine times affect his methods?
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