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Original title

World Business Report

Genre

news

Country

United Kingdom

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a daily business news programme that covers global markets and corporate stories. It airs two editions on weekday mornings, each lasting 25 minutes. Presenters report on the opening of stock exchanges and key financial events.

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What happens

World Business Report was a television business news programme produced by BBC News and shown on international feed of BBC News alongside its UK counterpart and BBC One on weekdays between 1995 and 2024. There were two editions broadcast each weekday, at 05:30 and 06:30 GMT. Each edition lasted 25 minutes. The 05:30 edition was also seen on BBC One and the 11:30 edition also aired on BBC Two during their simulcasts of BBC News (UK) channel. The main presenters of the programme are Sally Bundock and Victoria Valentine. Nancy Kacungira, Ben Thompson, Ben Boulos, Samantha Simmonds, Aaron Heslehurst and Alice Baxter have acted as relief presenters. Other editions of World Business Report were shown on the international feed at 06:30, 07:45 and 14:30 GMT and since 6 March 2023, the 14:30 edition was seen by UK viewers on the UK feed of BBC News. On 7 May 2024 in the edition presented by Ben Thompson, he announced that it was the final edition of the programme and World Business Report was going to be replaced by a new programme called Business Today. Business Today premiered at 14:30BST on the same day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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