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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

  • Jul 21, 2022

    ECB finally raises rates, but pain of debt crisis still lingers in Greece

    A man walks past a "one euro" store in central Athens on July 2, 2015. Greece's left-wing government "may very well" resign if a referendum this weekend on bailout conditions results in a 'Yes' vote, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said in a radio interview on July 2. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    From the BBC World Service: The European Central Bank will raise interest rates today for the first time in 11 years. What does that mean for heavily indebted southern European countries like Greece? Victoria Craig has this special edition of the program live from Athens.

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  • Jul 20, 2022

    Housing market feels the effects of higher interest rates

    A "For Sale by Owner" sign is posted in front of property in Monterey Park, California on April 29, 2020. - Home prices in the US grew in February to its highest level in over a year heading into the traditional Spring selling season but momentum in the nation's housing market has been reversed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Susan Schmidt discusses market activity with us as numbers show dropping home sales and mortgage applications. Also, the BBC provides an update on how Europe is handling the Russian gas conundrum. We speak with the BBC’s Victoria Craig about the interest rate decision from the European Central Bank.

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  • Jul 20, 2022

    Tesla plans to bring (faster) power to the people

    PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 14: Tesla cars recharge at a Tesla Supercharger station on April 14, 2022 in Pasadena, California. California has unveiled a proposal which would end the sale of gasoline-powered cars while requiring all new cars to have zero emissions by 2035.
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    The electric car giant is expected to roll out adapters for its Supercharger system, which can charge vehicles in minutes. Also, the European Central Bank is on the verge of following the Fed’s anti-inflation play of raising interest rates.

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  • Jul 20, 2022

    Sri Lanka has a new president. But can he heal the country?

    Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe looks on after a marathon debate in parliament in Colombo on April 4, 2018. Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe faced a no-confidence motion that has widened a rift in the ruling coalition and worsened political turmoil in the island nation. / AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)

    From the BBC World Service: Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected Sri Lanka’s president by the parliament. The European Commission is expected to outline proposals for EU countries to reduce their gas consumption by up to 15%. And we catch up with Marketplace’s Victoria Craig, who’s in Greece ahead of tomorrow’s expected rate hike from the European Central Bank.

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  • Jul 19, 2022

    Profits are down for some of the country’s biggest banks

    Corporations will have to navigate an increasingly polarized world — and economy.
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    Banks are making less, courtesy of a slowdown in corporate dealmaking. But they are also reporting that consumer and business lending have grown in the past year. Paul Christopher of Wells Fargo joins us for today’s chat about market activity. With the European Union ready to stop importing Russian coal, some countries in Africa have stepped in to fill the energy void.

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  • Jul 19, 2022

    U.S. tries to catch up in the semiconductor race

    Roughly only 12% of semiconductor chips are made in the U.S., says C.J. Muse, research analyst with investment banking advisory firm Evercore ISI.
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    There’s progress on a bill that could help spark the creation of more semiconductor chips. Homes are still hard to get, even though data shows that the housing market is slowing down. Netflix is trying a few things to adapt to its post-pandemic reality of falling subscriber numbers. 

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  • Jul 19, 2022

    Putin heads to Tehran for talks, but what’s on the agenda?

    Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech, as he visits the Vostochny cosmodrome, some 180 km north of Blagoveschensk, Amur region on April 12, 2022. (Photo by Yevgeny BIYATOV / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by YEVGENY BIYATOV/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

    From the BBC World Service: Vladimir Putin will be in Iran today on only his second trip out of Russia since his invasion of Ukraine began.  Chinese authorities say they are starting a ‘clean up’ of the internet. A heat wave continues to break records in the U.K. – and melt critical infrastructure.

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  • Jul 18, 2022

    Inflation is bringing people back to the food banks

    The pandemic exacerbated food insecurity, and inflation makes it harder for food banks to provide for families' needs.
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    Mounting costs of food have exacerbated food insecurity, according to food banks that have seen double the number of visitors in some cases. Michael Hewson helps us interpret today’s market activity. The BBC reports on the landscape of tech employment within the United Kingdom.

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  • Jul 18, 2022

    The president is back from Saudi Arabia. Time will tell if more oil came with him.

    US President Joe Biden (C-L) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C-R) arrive for the family photo during the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3) at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022.
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    There’s some official buzz that oil production from the Middle East could be on the rise after President Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday. The BBC reports on the heat wave in Europe, which has ignited wildfires that have caused evacuations in Spain, France and Portugal. Thanks to inflation, the real value of the federal minimum wage is the lowest it’s been in more than 60 years.

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  • Jul 18, 2022

    Calls for action and investment as wildfires rage in Western Europe

    Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain, on June 18, 2022. - Firefighters continued to fight against multiple fires in Spain, one of which ravaged nearly 20,000 hectares of land, on the last day of an extreme heat wave which crushed the country, with peaks at 43 degrees. The largest of these forest fires was still out of control this afternoon in the Sierra de la Culebra, a mountain range in the region of Castile and Leon (northwest), near the border with Portugal. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP) (Photo by CESAR MANSO/AFP via Getty Images)

    From the BBC World Service: Amidst the second heatwave in a month, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in Spain, France and Portugal. The U.K. is set to become home to the world’s largest automated drone superhighway. Protesters have been on the streets of Budapest for nearly a week demonstrating against proposed changes to Hungary’s tax system.

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