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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

  • “China is the Wakanda of online payments”
    Photo by Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Germany narrowly avoids recession. China is light years ahead of Google when it comes to online payments. Sweden leads the way on closing the gender pay back.

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  • Flight shame gives way to the night train

    Inflation ticked up in October. Fed Chair Jerome Powell appears before Congress. Flygskam, or “flight shaming,” even has airlines promoting greener travel.

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  • Seventeen-year-old Mya Kelly in her high school American government class at Paul Lawurence Dunbar High School.
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    Are big media companies discriminating against content produced by minorities? Tesla’s first European factory will be in Berlin. The EPA wants scientists to share its confidential data on climate change. The U.S. needs to close its “civics empowerment gap.”

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  • Are the BRICS still relevant?
    Photo by Mikhail KlimentyevTASS via Getty Images

    Tesla picks Berlin for its first European factory. Have Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have met their economic potential over the last decade? Who will use Africa’s first high-speed rail?

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  • Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019.
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    SCOTUS takes up Trump’s plan to end DACA. German investors are optimistic about the global economy. It turns out mortgage banking algorithms also discriminate.

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  • Raftsmen help Guatemalans cross the Suchiate towards Mexico, where they buy goods with higher quality and lower prices.
    Rodrigo Cervantes for Marketplace

    More and more Americans can’t afford their medications. Google moves into the medical data business. U.S. immigration policies hit the Mexico-Guatemala border.

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  • Disney Plus might not have a fairy tale outcome in China
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    The House of Mouse joins the global streaming wars, but what works in America won’t necessarily translate abroad. Racing giant Formula One plans to become carbon neutral by 2030. Singapore tests out a flying taxi.

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  • Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks during an Apple product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on March 25 in Cupertino, California.
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    Apple’s credit card is accused of sexism. Hong Kong is worrying investors. One woman on the opportunity afforded to her by the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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  • Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill after witnesses failed to show up for closed door testimony during the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on November 4, 2019.
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    How TV networks might still cash in on ads during impeachment proceedings. Singles Day sales hit $8 billion in 68 seconds. Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years later.

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  • A screen shows the gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 1 minute 36 seconds of Singles Day sales, as it reaches about 1,429,510,821 USD in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province early on November 11, 2019.
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    China’s Alibaba rakes in tens of billions on the world’s biggest online shopping day. Australia’s worst wildfires in a decade head towards Sydney. Africa’s first commercial gene bank launches in Nigeria.

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