How much should employers know about their workers as people head back to the office? Companies have a duty of care to make sure their workers are safe, but how much monitoring is reasonable? Is this the end of privacy at work? Manuela...
Wall Street Journal reporter Kristina Peterson explains the battle brewing in Congress over whether U.S. citizens married to undocumented immigrants should receive stimulus checks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
The $3 trillion stimulus package passed by the Democratic-led House last week faces long odds in the GOP-controlled Senate. But a second round of direct payments to Americans isn't off the table. Wall Street Journal tax reporter Richard...
Governments are spending billions paying wages to workers who are no longer able to work due to the coronavirus pandemic. How long can we keep this up? Are we storing up problems by offering this type of unprecedented state-sponsored...
Changes to bankruptcy rules have reduced the paperwork costs for businesses struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic. Wall Street Journal reporter Katy Stech Ferek explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
A third of Venezuela's population is at risk of malnutrition, according to the UN and the latest gasoline crisis could weaken the country's economy further. Entire villages are said to have been cut off from food supplies because trucks...
How do you feed a world in lockdown? We’ll be looking at the pressures on the global food supply chain in this episode of Business Weekly. As many choose to buy more locally produced food we’ll ask whether new habits will stick. Two...
Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah Chaney explains why women have suffered steeper job losses than men during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Coal has suffered the brunt of the huge slump in electricity demand as the world has gone into lockdown. It has highlighted the fossil fuel's Achilles Heel: When there is too much supply on the grid, it's coal-fired power stations that...
Some of the world’s richest people have been digging deep during the pandemic, donating their own money to help fight Covid-19. With some of the wealthiest 1% already funding medical research, we ask how comfortable we should be with...
Lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic have disrupted global food supply chains and limited the range of products on supermarket shelves in the rich world. Could new buying habits stick even after lockdowns end? Will less choice and...
The IRS is giving employees who have dependent-care flexible-spending accounts, or FSAs, the ability to make midyear changes to contributions. Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains. Learn more about your ad choices....
As the chancellor commits to spending billions more on support packages for workers and companies, FT Money presenter Claer Barrett and experts explain what you could claim. Next up on the show, maths teacher and TV personality Bobby...
Wall Street Journal reporter AnnaMaria Andriotis explains the challenges consumers are facing when they seek to delay making credit-card payments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After the finanancial crisis of 2008-2009 banks and financial firms received billions of dollars in public funds to help them survive. In 2011 civilians took to the streets protesting about economic inequality after the bailouts; jobs,...
Public pensions fell by the largest amount on record in the first quarter, as a result of market losses driven by the pandemic. Wall Street Journal reporter Heather Gillers explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Coronavirus is prompting the biggest government bailout effort of all time. Billions of dollars are being spent rescuing companies hit by the economic damage caused by the pandemic, but there are already criticisms that money is not...
The IRS has strict rules governing loans between family members. Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why are stock markets so buoyant as the global economy slides into a possible coronavirus-induced depression? Some 33 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past two months of the pandemic, yet the Nasdaq market is now higher than...
Median home prices rose 8% in March, even as the coronavirus pandemic started shutting down much of the U.S. economy. Wall Street Journal reporter Harriet Torry explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter Veronica Dagher explains the costs and benefits of Cobra, a health insurance continuation program available to many people who have lost their jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
The English Premier League's plans to finish the season after weeks of shutdown. Almost all major European football leagues have been on hold since March due to coronavirus. Ed Butler speaks to BBC Sports journalist Emlyn Begley about...
Claer Barrett and Lucy Warwick-Ching discuss covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money, and columnist James Max reveals that his biggest problem during the lockdown has been keeping his house clean without his...
Could economy minister Paulo Guedes be the next key ally to abandon embattled President Bolsonaro? A corruption scandal has already seen the popular justice minister walk away. Meanwhile Bolsonaro fired his health minister as he seeks to...
A relatively new type of fund offers some built-in protection against market and has become popular with investors. Wall Street Journal reporter Mischa Frankl-Duval explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Zealand is seen by many as a great example of surviving coronavirus, but with such a tourism-heavy economy there are concerns a further shock is to come. One idea mooted to help alleviate this is the so-called “trans-Tasman bubble”...
Car dealers and lenders are offering generous incentives to make up for sales lost during the height of the pandemic. Wall Street Journal reporter AnnaMaria Andriotis explains which customers are eligible for the sweetened offers. Learn...
Gabrielle Hamilton used to run the celebrated New York restaurant Prune. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. After being forced to shut the place that was her life's work, she wonders if there will still be a place for it in the New York...
Confusing language in the federal Cares Act makes it unclear if homeowners who suspend mortgage payments during the pandemic will have to pay the money back in one lump sum. Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Kiernan explains. Learn more...
The most compelling reports and interviews from the BBC's business programmes over the past week, examining the huge issues facing policymakers and asking what the future holds for our working lives. This week we ask a big moral question...
Restrictions in the Paycheck Protection Program on how small businesses can allocate loan money has left many owners frustrated because they can't cover overhead expenses. Wall Street Journal reporter Yuka Hayashi explains. Learn more...
Living under lockdown is challenging for everyone, but for hundreds of millions of single parents around the world, it can be a terrifying ordeal. It’s not only emotionally draining, but can also be financially crippling, as Tamasin Ford...
Governments around the world are planning to roll out contact tracing apps to help contain the spread of coronavirus. But will they work? Ed Butler speaks to BBC technology reporter Chris Fox about the technology that underpins them, and...
LaSalle Network's Tom Gimbel explains how college seniors' expectations for the job market have changed amid the coronavirus pandemic, and which businesses are hiring new workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Claer Barrett explores some of the biggest issues facing small investors with investment columnist Merryn Somerset Webb and Fidelity’s Maike Currie.
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In today's Business Daily we're asking some awkward, often neglected questions - will the economic recession itself prove more fatal than coronavirus? How do and how should governments put a value on human life? To help answer these...
About half of workers receiving unemployment benefits during the pandemic earn more than they did before they lost their job. Wall Street Journal reporter Eric Morath explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment, with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your...
The World Bank has warned global remittances, which is the money migrant workers send home, will fall by around 20% in 2020 because of coronavirus. The bank predicts this will affect the income of at least tens of millions of families....
Wall Street Journal tax reporter Richard Rubin gives an update on the government's stimulus payment process, including the status of paper checks and improvements to the IRS website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Coronavirus has derailed the global economy, closing entire business chains across the world. Big companies may have the collateral to withstand the storm, but what about smaller ones? We speak to three business owners to find out....
CreditCards.com analyst Ted Rossman explains why banks and lenders are lowering consumers' credit limits during the pandemic. He also offers tips to avoid cancelation of your credit cards. Have a question about the pandemic? Leave us a...
Countries in Europe are planning to scale back lockdown measures and reopen their economies. But what will the new normal look like? Ed Butler speaks to the BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen about the experience of Hubei province in...
Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter Julia Carpenter discusses options Americans should consider if they need to take on debt during the pandemic. Have a question about the pandemic? Leave us a voice message at (315) 992-8298....
The House is expected to approve another $320 billion for loans to small businesses. Wall Street Journal reporter Amara Omeokwe explains why many fear that amount may not meet demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
A crunch meeting of EU leaders today aims to finally show Italy and others solidarity in the struggle against coronavirus. A plan is gaining momentum for the European Commission to raise a trillion-plus-euro fund to invest in the...
There are lots of pressures on household budgets at the current time, but experts on the FT Money show are here to guide you through it. On this week's podcast we’re going to be talking about worker’s rights if companies want to cut...
With factories around the world shuttered during the coronavirus outbreak, we’re asking whether the world’s intricate global supply chains will come out of the pandemic intact. We’ll hear from garment factory workers in Bangladesh who...
Many Africans are struggling under lockdown, with little or no access to food or supplies. Some observers are questioning whether full lockdown is appropriate in situations where the people can’t be supplied with relief as in developed...
In many cities, pollution has reduced during the Covid-19 pandemic, but what will happen to the environment when economies get going again? The year after the financial crisis, global carbon dioxide emissions jumped by nearly 6% as...