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Leaders gather for Davos meeting Tue, 21 Jan 14 Business and global political leaders are gathering in the Swiss ski resort of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum. But will all the talk at Davos actually make any difference? We find out more ab
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Business lending Thu, 23 Jan 14 As bank lending to businesses falls, smaller companies are looking elsewhere for their cash. But the banks have a plan to tell businesses that the money is there if they want it. We ask respected Harvard University eco
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Carney's view on interest rates Fri, 24 Jan 14 Mark Carney from the Bank of England told the BBC's Newsnight that there is no need to increase interest rates at the moment despite the unemployment rate nearing the 7% level that formed such a crucial
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Bank customers hit by IT glitch Mon, 27 Jan 14 Lloyds Banking Group has apologised after an IT failure left customers unable to withdraw cash or pay on their cards yesterday. We ask an expert on the bank's IT systems what's going wrong. The economic
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Strong UK GDP figures expected Mon, 27 Jan 14 Official figures to be released on Tuesday are expected to show the UK economy grew at its fastest rate since before the financial crisis. But where is the growth coming from and is the recovery sustainab
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Business Matters: Markets uneasy over Argentina 25 Jan 14 Sat, 25 Jan 14 There've been falls on Wall Street and stockmarkets elsewhere over the health of emerging economies, after Argentina's central bank stopped trying to prop up its currency and tr
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Business Matters: The trouble with Bitcoin 28 Jan 14 Tue, 28 Jan 14 Two Bitcoin exchange bosses are arrested and charged with money laundering. French unemployment figures reach record highs as President Hollande's ex-girlfriend arrives in India. How
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Business Matters: Huge Turkish interest rates rise 29 Jan 14 Wed, 29 Jan 14 Turkey's central bank raises the key interest rate to 12 per cent in the hope of attracting investors and supporting the flagging lira. The bank's monetary policy committee h
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Business Matters: Email encryption boom 30 Jan 14 Thu, 30 Jan 14 Internet security in the wake of Edward Snowden's latest revelations leads this edition of the programme. We hear from two firms promising NSA-proof email and file transfers, and look a
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Business Matters: Indian car safety 31 Jan 14 Fri, 31 Jan 14 Small cars made in India have failed the country's first-ever independent crash tests. David Ward, the secretary general of Global NCAP, the organisation which carried out the tests tells u
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Business Matters: The Great Barrier Reef 01 Feb 14 Sat, 1 Feb 14 The largest living structure in the world, the Great Barrier Reef, is under threat again. A decision in Australia gives the developers of a huge coal port the right to dump three millio
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Business Matters: 'Breathtaking' EU corruption Tue, 4 Feb 14 German MEP Jan Albrecht on what to do about corruption as a new report shows it's costing EU member states 120-billion euros every year. Robin Lustig investigates the controversies surround
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Business Matters: New CEO at Microsoft 05 Feb 14 Wed, 5 Feb 14 There's a new CEO at Microsoft and he's not at all like notorious extrovert, Steve Ballmer. We get the lowdown on cricket and poetry lover Satya Nadella from a woman who's known him many
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Business Matters: Brand Beckham United 06 Feb 14 Thu, 6 Feb 14 David Beckham announces he's bought a football franchise in Miami. Celebrated Miami Herald sports columnist Greg Cote tells us what it will mean for the city and whether he thinks Beckham
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Business Matters: Too Much Information 07 Feb 14 Fri, 7 Feb 14 This special edition of Business Matters focuses on data. Do we need to store so much of it? Who should control it? Should we - the individuals, the customers, the bloggers and the tweete
