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BBC Marketplace Senior Producer

Stephen Ryan

Senior Producer, BBC World Service/Marketplace (in London)

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  • Carli Lloyd of the U.S. scores the team's second goal against Japan in the 2015 Women's World Cup final in Vancouver, Canada.
    Dennis Grombkowski/Getty Images

    Carmakers ask the White House to standardize emissions regulations. The Feds take aim at robocalls. Sponsors go in on Women’s World Cup soccer.

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  • A container ship from China Shipping Line is loaded at the main container port in Hamburg, Germany.
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    Germany’s economy has taken a hit from global trade tensions. Russian President Putin makes a pitch to international investors in St. Petersburg. How do you classify burnout?

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  • Jean Pierre Louis joins with other workers to protest against possible job layoffs at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 01, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    Layoff announcements are way up. Veterans outside their VA service areas now have more options. A fifth-generation Mississippi farmer deals with devastating flooding.

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  • Flood waters covering farmland in the Mississippi Delta means thousands of acres of crops
    Victoria Darden

    Oil demand might go down, so the the prices do, too. The Renault-Fiat Chrysler merger is no more. Farmers’ fields remain unplanted in Mississippi.

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  • Workers at works in FIAT cars factory. (Photo by salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB /LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Seismic change continues in the auto industry. India cuts rates for the third time this year. How do you feel about taxing job-stealing robots? 

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  • A pharmacy technician prepares prescriptions for packaging and shipping after being filled on an automated line at the central pharmacy of Intermountain Heathcare in 2018 in Midvale, Utah.
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    Women might struggle more as automation becomes the norm. May’s jobs numbers underperform. The Trump Administration restricts travel to Cuba.

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  • Bernie in the lions’ den
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    Bernie Sanders speaks at the Walmart shareholders meeting. The U.S. ends preferential trade treatment for India. More and more, researchers are seeing links between debt and mental health issues.

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  • Indian workers produce soccer shoes at a manufacturing unit in Jalandhar.  (Photo by SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP//Getty Images)

    Duty-free status ends for some Indian goods exported to the U.S. Easy Jet faces a forced exit from London’s FTSE 100 exchange. A debt showdown looms between Italy and Brussels.

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  • 3rd May 1913:  Grand Marshal Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886 - 1916) leads a parade of 30,000 representives of the various Women's Suffrage associations through New York City.
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    Lawmakers eye possible big tech collusion. Apple takes iTunes off the playlist. We take a history lesson on the suffragist lobby.

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  • Thousands of people take part in a march through central London in 2018 to protest against underfunding and privatisation of the NHS. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

    Australia slashes rates for the first time in three years. One of the U.K.’s biggest fund managers suspends trading in his largest fund as investors ask for their money back. Can Britain’s National Health Service open even more to private investment?

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