70th anniversary. We look at the economic inequality fuelling the pro democracy movement. European shares are struggling this monday morning. While in asia shares were little changed overnight with no great reaction to the news that the us governemnt is considering Delisting Chinese Companies from its stock exchanges. And well be getting the inside track on being a Financial Success in a newspaper industry thats increasingly digital. The boss of the Financial Times group will be here a little later. As forever 21 files for bankruptcy we want to know if this means our fast fashion tastes are changing . Are consumers now opting to spend more on their clothes . 0r buy secondhand 7 let us knowjust use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Welcome to the programme. We start in germany where one of the worlds biggest car makers volkswagen goes back to court today as the company once again faces the fallout of the diesel gate emissions cheating scandal. Hundreds of thous
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Just general surprise and big news. Yeah, pretty surprising. Im hoping that through the new ownership the quality of the reporting from a business perspective is going to improve. Nikkei issued its first paper in 1876. The Japanese Firm seeks to bolster its Global Economic reporting through the acquisition. It also intends to use the ft groups Customer Base to strengthen its digital operations. Nikkeis chairman tsuneo kita said hes excited about pairing up with the Financial Times. He said both firms share economic values. Well the newspaper industry is suffering from shrinking circulation and advertising revenue. Ramin mellegard joins us from the business desk. Whats behind the planned buyout . A lot of focus, a lot of interest on this story, catherine. Both the nikkei and the ft group really trying to capture new sources of revenue. Media companies have been laying off workers while also pushing their paid online subscriptions as part of their survival strategies. Now, the consumers
The Financial Times is one of the worlds leading economic newspaper. Its circulation was 137,000 last year with 70 of that from online subscriptions. Just general surprise and big news. Yeah, pretty surprising. Im hoping that through the new ownership the quality of the reporting from a business perspective is going to improve. Nikkei issued its first paper in 1876. The Japanese Firm seeks to bolster its Global Economic reporting through the acquisition. It also intends to use the ft groups Customer Base to strengthen its digital operations. Nikkeis chairman tsuneo kita said hes excited about pairing up with the Financial Times. He said both firms share economic values. Well the newspaper industry is suffering from shrinking circulation and advertising revenue. Ramin mellegard joins us from the business desk. Whats behind the planned buyout . A lot of focus, a lot of interest on this story, catherine. Both the nikkei and the ft group really trying to capture new sources of revenue. Med
These are not normal times. Is it justice [applause] thank you, justice, for keeping hope and justice alive. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones and when we get to the q a part of the session we encourage you to come to this question as you might have noticed we do have cspan here this evening and we are also vidviding for our own company. And at the end our staff would appreciate it if you would fold up your chair at the end and lean it against something. We are really delighted to have david with us this evening. David has moved through the walls of Public Service and private business. David shifted into government during the Clinton Administration where he served was deputy under secretary of commerce and returned to the public and founded his own advisory firm. Today he is ceo and editor of the ft group which publishes Foreign Policy magazine and website and visiting scholar at carnegie university. He has also written several insi