IMF warns U.K. over its economic future

Consumer trust in Boeing is wearing thin since an airplane door ripped off a 737 Max 9 in January, which has been followed by a string of other recent Boeing safety incidents. So how much does faltering trust actually impact the business of air travel? Plus, President Joe Biden w ...  Show more

From the BBC World Service: China’s annual policy meeting has drawn to a close at a time when the country has mountains of debt, high youth unemployment and a property sector in crisis. So what is the government’s plan to boost confidence and steady the economy? Also on today’s p ...  Show more

The International Monetary Fund has issued a gloomy forecast for 2023, saying the "worst is yet to come" for the global economy. The IMF says more than a third of the world's economy will shrink in the year to come, including the US, the EU and China. We look at the detail with f ...  Show more

On World Business Report, we look back at a turbulent seven days for central banks, markets and businesses. It's been a week in which the Federal Reserve raised interest rates again, prompting other central banks to follow; but the move has had negative effects on other major cur ...  Show more

Its latest report says some countries will fall into recession in 2023, but that it's too early to predict whether there will be a global recession. We get more analysis from one of the report's authors, Franziska Ohnsorge. The UK's finance ministry is considering removing limits ...  Show more

It’s been another windy day for the British economy as the Bank of England intervenes to buy government debt. The leader of the UK's main opposition party - Keir Starmer says the government has lost control of its finances. Raoul Puparel, head of the Boston Consulting Group and a ...  Show more