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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.

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  • Apr 26, 2022

    As the U.N. chief heads to Moscow, what’s life like in Russia?

    UN chief Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine ahead of his talks with Vladimir Putin.
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    From the BBC World Service: What to do about the besieged city of Mariupol is expected to be top of the list of subjects the UN’s Antonio Guterres and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin are expected to focus on. Plus, is Beijing next for a citywide lockdown as China sticks to its zero COVID strategy? And, why U.K. drugstores are reporting shortages of hormone replacement therapy. 

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  • Apr 25, 2022

    How could the demise of CNN+ affect other news companies?

    CNN pulled the plug on its new streaming operation, CNN+. That's deprived the news industry of an opportunity to see what streamed television news could look like.
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    CNN reportedly spent tens of millions of dollars on developing CNN+ before canceling it last week. Warner Bros. Discovery’s shuttering of the service could affect other companies in the video news industry, which may be less willing to invest in that type of news streaming service going forward. Markets in Asia are reacting to rising COVID-19 cases in Beijing, which some may say could lead to a city-wide lockdown as seen in Shanghai. Girl Scouts added an online story to sell cookies to during the pandemic: online stores, but some parents are concerned it isn’t the same when it comes to developing crucial skills.

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  • Apr 25, 2022

    How the war in Ukraine is felt in other countries – through debt

    COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - APRIL 24: Riot police officers gather behind the barricade while university students protest amid the country's ongoing economic and political crisis on April 24, 2022 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Street protests have increased island-wide with pressure building for Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government to resign. One protester was shot and killed by police on Tuesday in Rambukkana, during a demonstration against the shortage of fuel. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
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    The war in Ukraine is worsening debt risk in developing countries. Rising commodity prices, higher borrowing rates, and other factors are making the economic situation harder for countries like Sri Lanka. Many of the countries facing these challenges were previously considered risky, but the war is exacerbating poor conditions and may push some past the tipping point. Elon Musk and Twitter are reportedly in talks for the social media platform to be acquired by the SpaceX and Tesla billionaire. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues convenes in New York City for a week of discussion on issues like indigenous rights related to business and the economy.

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  • Apr 25, 2022

    Macron wins second term as French president

    Supporters of the re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron at the Eifel Tower in Paris.
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    From the BBC World Service: EU leaders breathed a sigh of relief as France’s centrist incumbent, Emmanuel Macron, warded off the challenge of far-right challenger Marine Le Pen to be re-elected as French president. Also today, panic-buying in Beijing over fears of a fresh lockdown, and English soccer is set to get a new regulator.

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  • Apr 22, 2022

    What led to CNN’s subtraction of its CNN+ streaming service?

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 21: An advertisement for CNN+ is displayed in Manhattan on April 21, 2022 in New York City. Only three weeks after its launch, CNN has announced that it's new streaming service is already planning to shut down. CNN+ had attracted well known names in media and entertainment to its line-up, which looked to compete with other streaming services and to appeal to a younger audience. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    The vehicle that was supposed to usher CNN into the streaming era appears to have been stopped in its tracks. Less than a month after launch, CNN+ is being shut down. We discuss some of the factors that led to this point. Christopher Low talks mortgage rates during our markets discussion. Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak clues us in on life in Shanghai, which has been in COVID lockdown for weeks. It’s National Parks Week, and many parks are still using early pandemic reservation systems. Is it going to stay that way?

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  • Apr 22, 2022

    How might the U.S. view the state of the war in Ukraine? The answer could be in the aid.

    MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 21: A view of a Mykolaiv Regional Council building which was destroyed as a result of a shellfire on April 21, 2022 in Mykolaiv area Ukraine. Mykolaiv, a port city near where the Southern Bug river flows into the Black Sea, has been a target of Russian attacks throughout its current invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian forces here repelled an initial advance from Russian-held territory nearby, but the city has experienced frequent shelling and air strikes even as Russia shifts the focus of its war to the eastern Donbas region. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)

    President Biden recently announced an additional $800 million in assistance to Ukraine. However, there’s been a noticeable change in the kind of military aid the U.S. is sending, and that change could hint at the U.S. outlook on how the war is going. To help us break down the U.S. aid package, we spoke to Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Florida lawmakers have approved a bill to strip Disney of special tax privileges through self-government of its land in Orlando.

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  • Apr 22, 2022

    Shanghai adds tough new lockdown measures

    A community volunteer (C) wearing personal protective equipment gestures as residents line up during a test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in a compound during a Covid-19 lockdown in Pudong district in Shanghai on April 19, 2022. - China OUT (Photo by LIU JIN / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images)

    From the BBC World Service: China’s government introduces even tougher COVID lockdown restrictions, including alarms on people’s doors. France has issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of the Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi car alliance. After being charged with financial wrongdoing in Japan in 2018, Ghosn fled to Lebanon and has been there ever since. And, we meet a 100-year-old man in Brazil who’s worked for the same company for 84 years.

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  • Apr 21, 2022

    Food businesses across the UK pivot again as crowds return to restaurants, shops

    Diners eating outdoors at a London restaurant in April 2021. With lockdowns over and pandemic anxiety easing, many Brits are returning to pre-pandemic habits.
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    Food delivery operations were activated as eateries and grocery stores emptied. But with restrictions lifted, those changes are fading.

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  • Apr 21, 2022

    There’s a boost in apartment and condo construction. Why?

    A construction laborer works on the site of a new residential building in the Hudson Yards development in 2016 in New York City.
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    There’s been a surge of multi-unit construction going on, and we look into the reasons for it. Among them – as people moved out of cities during the thick of the pandemic era, they headed to the suburbs. That triggered higher rents and the kind of motivation to build more apartments and condos. Diane Swonk stops by to offer insight on how the inflation-fighting tactics in the U.S. could have ripple effects throughout the rest of the world. Speaking of rising prices, another issue appears from above: avian flu, which is driving up the cost of eggs.

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  • Apr 21, 2022

    Let’s head to the counselor’s office and revisit the options for high school graduates

    The cap of a former student of Jefferson County Public Schools can be seen as they clap within their row during a makeup graduation ceremony at Central High School on May 28, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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    May 1 is National College Decision Day, but as that day approaches, there’s data that shows a drop in college enrollment during the pandemic. The freshman enrollment rate last fall was 9.2% lower than prior to the pandemic in the fall of 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. This is causing many counselor to rethink how the approach broaching the subject of the future with students. For more, we spoke to Steve Schneider, a school counselor at Sheboygan South High School in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s ruling that voided the nationwide transportation mask mandate.

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