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[dramatic music] the martha stewart story is very much about having no limits. in a male-dominated business world, she became a self-made corporate titan no, you cannot say this. by being the most intimidating homemaker on earth. martha stewart became an icon of design, icon of cooking. but there were always people who wanted to be against martha stewart. we re looking for imperfections. we re looking for cracks. we re looking for the fall. we re here to announce criminal charges against martha stewart. [chatter] this year s ipo activity so far is about $9 billion. i think it s a mania going on right now. the 1999 initial public offering market blasted off with internet frenzy. some of these valuations are in another galaxy. i ve never really seen anything like this. so at this time in 1999, this was the dot-com boom. this was the heyday of initial public offerings, ipos, on wall street, right? so there was money flowing into these companies, and martha stewart was a ....
since he took over from bernard looney, who was forced out after a scandal over workplace relationships. bp s share price has languished while rivals such as exxonmobil have soared some investors are uneasy about its huge and costly investments in green technology. some analysts say it is a potential takeover target. earlier i spoke to cornelia meyer, ceo of meyer resources an energy consultancy. she was a former senior executive at bp. you are damned if you do and you re damned if you don t. some investors would preferfor bp to do more on the green agenda and others, you know, sort of more activist investors who are after the quick short term return, favour the fossil fuel the hydrocarbons strategy. and i think bp is trying to walk a middle way and they have to straddle that middle way. your next story is about the net zero targets of europe. and bp is in europe. it has big operations in europe. it s ftse listed, so it has to deal with european and uk regulators, w ....
officers have now searched five properties in london and newcastle in the hunt for abdul shokoor ezedi. the injured woman, who was known to the suspect, remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. getting germany growing again. europe s biggest economy continues to shrink. so, what s it going to take to get it firing on all cylinders? when we go to the supermarket, but also in the restaurant, that used to be a cheap city. it s not the case anymore. there s growing discontent on the streets as germany continues to grapple with the switch away from cheap russian energy, and it struggles with the investment it needs for long term success. i m going to be discussing all of that with these two there they are. one of germany s leading business groups tells me it s important that consumers s ....
corporate titan no, you cannot say this. by being the most intimidating homemaker on earth. martha stewart became an icon of design, icon of cooking. but there were always people who wanted to be against martha stewart. we re looking for imperfections. we re looking for cracks. we re looking for the fall. we re here to announce criminal charges against martha stewart. [chatter] this year s ipo activity so far is about $9 billion. i think it s a mania going on right now. the 1999 initial public offering market blasted off with internet frenzy. some of these valuations are in another galaxy. i ve never really seen anything like this. so at this time in 1999, this was the dot-com boom. this was the heyday of initial public offerings, ipos, on wall street, right? so there was money flowing into these companies, and martha stewart was a household name with a storyline that wall street could understand and get behind. she s in the middle of an ever-expanding martha universe ....
the price of oil on international markets is not high enough for them. oil and energy leaders are gathering again today in vienna for the latest opec summit. the biggest and most powerful player saudi arabia started this week with the news it s extending its voluntary output cut of1 million barrels per day to august. russia is making a similar move. but these cuts are failing to boost energy prices. why? jonathan robinsonjoins me now to explain he is global power & energy research director at frost and sullivan. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil prices- cuts in production, oil prices have stayed relatively low in what we have seen historically in the past year, 1.5 years. there are a few specific reasons for that. chinese demand, industrial out would, incre ....