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Victoria Craig

Victoria Craig is the former host of Marketplace Morning Report’s global edition produced by the BBC World Service in London. She graduated from the University of Missouri (go Tigers!) with a degree in broadcast journalism. Before moving to the U.K. in 2017, she covered Wall Street,  reporting for five years on U.S. stocks and the economy from New York City. When she’s not in front of the microphone, you can find Victoria baking or curling up with a good book at home, hiking in the English countryside, or travelling through her new European playground.

Latest from Victoria Craig

  • The FAA says only airlines in the United States, Japan and South Korea fly the kind of Boeing plane which experienced engine failure.
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    Two Japanese carriers have stopped flying aircraft similar to the model that suffered engine failure in the U.S. Also, businesses join a general strike over Myanmar coup. Plus, will the creation of a “Great Green Wall” help stop desertification and aid farmers in northern Africa?

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  • A person checks the GameStop stock with the Reddit, Citadel, Robinhood and Melvin Capital logos in the background in this photo illustration.
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    The House Financial Services Committee hearing on Thursday spent a lot of time looking at the separate roles played by Robinhood and hedge funds. Plus, the federal relief needed to bring back laid-off state and local government workers. And, the federal government’s balancing act between pandemic relief spending now and more spending later.

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  • Biden’s first G-7 summit as president
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    The U.S. will officially rejoin the 2015 Paris Agreement, and Biden will announce a $4 billion dollar global vaccine effort. Plus, how Biden’s new bill on immigration would create a faster path to citizenship for farm workers who are unauthorized. And, Texans grapple with damage to their homes from the winter storms, including bursting pipes.

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  • Former Uber drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam brought the case against Uber.
    James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam

    From the BBC World Service: The U.K.’s Supreme Court ruled Uber drivers should be classified as workers and not contractors, and as such are entitled to a raft of benefits and payments.

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  • Reddit, Robinhood and hedge funds face Congress
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    Elected officials in Washington get into the GameStop trading frenzy today. Plus, 861,000 more people registered for unemployment last week. Before the pandemic, there had never once been a week even above 700,000. And, people who are undocumented were excluded from relief money under the CARES Act. We speak with a restaurant worker in Los Angeles about his experience.

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  • Facebook and Australia are in a huge fight over who should pay for news content that appears on social media platforms.
    Niall Carson/PA Wire

    Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform. It comes in response to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms. Also, SPACs are taking over Wall Street and European stock exchange floors, but what are they and why are they so popular? We’ll explain.

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  • A proposed law in Australia would require social media sites, like Facebook, and search engines, like Google, to pay publishers for news content that appears on their sites.
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    Facebook turned off news feeds in Australia in the latest response to a law that would make Big Tech companies pay for news content that appears on their platforms. Plus, how the worst ice and snow in Texas in a decade is affecting farmers and ranchers. And, highlighting the hardworking people who process unemployment benefits.

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  • SPAC investors don't know what company their money will end up with, but they often base their decision on the sponsors involved in the deal.
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    A top JPMorgan banker explains what you need to know about the Wall Street craze that’s going global.

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  • Could incentives make employees more or less suspicious of COVID-19 vaccinations?
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    Does it help if companies sweeten the deal for workers to get COVID vaccinations? Plus, news today that we went out and bought more things in January. Direct COVID payments were the catalyst. Also, New York is suing Amazon, claiming the company failed to provide workers with a safe environment at two warehouses during the pandemic. And, how the winter storms sweeping the U.S. are affecting vaccine distribution.

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  • Gates calls cement an example of a common material that must evolve as part of the effort to mitigate climate change.
    John Keatley

    Gates’ new book is called “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Plus, a closer look at how Texas’ power grid works amid ongoing outages for millions of people due to winter weather. And, the Biden administration extends forbearance for homeowners with federally backed mortgages.

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