Business Weekly
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After a nail-biting week, the Oval Office is within Joe Biden’s grasp - on this edition of business weekly we’ll ask what this means for US economic policy. We’ll find out why the markets rallied and ask a former climate negotiator what a Biden presidency could mean for the environment. We’ll also hear from the sailors stuck at sea thanks to covid restrictions. There are concerns that that the plight of the 400,000 sailors unable to go ashore and home could become a humanitarian catastrophe. Plus, we take a closer look at the little Ant that grew into a financial giant as Jack Ma’s financial company is prevented from listing on the stock exchange at the last moment. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring, |
| 0:19.8 | and thought-provoking stories you might have missed |
| 0:21.7 | from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. And what a week it's been. In the |
| 0:33.5 | programme today, we'll be looking at the latest lockdowns in Europe, the fate of seafarers |
| 0:38.4 | unable to reach home and the last-minute suspension of what was going to be the world's |
| 0:42.8 | biggest share sale. But of course, all eyes have been on the wrangling in the United States |
| 0:48.8 | after record numbers of people turned out to vote for the next president. As it stands, the former |
| 0:54.9 | Vice President Joe Biden has enough votes to secure the presidency of the most powerful nation |
| 0:59.8 | on earth. But the incumbent, Donald Trump, is not giving up without a fight. He's called for |
| 1:05.7 | the vote counting to stop and without producing evidence has accused the Democrats of fraud. |
| 1:10.8 | He's also promised to take his case to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:13.9 | Here's a reminder of what went down this week. |
| 1:20.7 | It's clear that we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Looking at the promise of the promised plan. |
| 1:32.3 | This is a fraud on the American public. |
| 1:36.3 | This is an embarrassment to our country. |
| 1:39.3 | We were getting ready to win this election. |
| 1:42.3 | Frankly, we did win this election. |
| 1:49.4 | Back in 2000, that election, George W. Bush and Al Gore went something like 32 days before we actually knew who was the winner of that election. |
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