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Business Matters: GM execs face Congress 2 Apr 14

Wed, 2 Apr 14

Did General Motors put profit before safety? New CEO Mary Barra says she's 'deeply sorry', adding that the 'new GM will do the right thing'. The BBC's Michelle Fleury watched proceedings in Washington and brings us the latest. As Russia hits Ukraine with a forty per cent increase in gas prices, we speak to celebrated Ukrainian journalist and author Andrei Kurkov about day-to-day life in a country in crisis. Beth McLeod reports from Philadelphia on US housing market doldrums. And collars for cows - a British invention making life easier for the world's dairy farmers. In our Singapore bureau, regular contributor David Kuo from The Motley Fool; in New York, former US Federal Official, Andrew Huszar. Now Senior Fellow at Rutgers Business School, Andrew was once charged with executing the centrepiece of the Fed's bond buying programme. In other words: quantitative easing, or QE. He'll have some serious questions to answer!