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A weekly podcast of international business news read in slow, clear English. Listen to the podcast and follow along in the accompanying script. Primary Format : News Language : English Also Listed as: City : Charlottesville State/Province : VA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of ESL Business News Podcasts Methings.com listings of ESL Business News Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

ESL Business News: May 14, 2007 ESL Business news taking a vacation--maybe a long one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: May 07, 2007 Hugo Chávez nationalizes more oil fields for May Day; Chinese make pet food poisoning arrest; Rupert Murdoch wants the Wall St. Journal; Thomson Corporation wants Reuters; US Supreme Court makes influential patent decision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: April 30, 2007 British banks compete for ABN AMRO; Toyota becomes world's biggest auto seller; AstraZeneca wants MedImmune; Siemens in bigger trouble; Cadbury prosecuted for selling poisoned chocolate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: April 23, 2007 British pound costs 2 US dollars; Chávez and Lula disagree over ethanol; big Blackberry service disruption; Sallie Mae sells themselves; problems at Yahoo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: April 16, 2007 Japan and China friendlier; US and China less friendly; World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz in trouble; Nestle buys baby food company; Google buys online ad firm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: April 09, 2007 US and South Korea sign a free trade agreement; US and Mexican phone companies try to buy an Italian one; Germany's E.ON gives up on buying Spanish utility Endesa; Kirk Kerkorian wants to buy Chrysler; Apple offering EMI music without copy protection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: April 02, 2007 Bribery arrest at Siemens; Rosneft buys a piece of Yukos; bit US-UK data theft; Porsche buys more of Volkswagen; New Zealand girls prove GlaxoSmithKline wrong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: March 19, 2007 Subprime lenders in trouble; US banks banned from doing business with Macau bank; EU commisionner criticizes Apple's iTunes service; Halliburton moves to Dubai; Ford sells Aston Martin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: March 26, 2007 Lord Black goes on trial; BP subsidiary bidding for some of Yukos; Chiquita admits to hiring terrorists; Oracle accuses SAP of spying; maiden flight of first Airbus A380. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: March 12, 2007 Britain protests 'Open Skies' agreement; China ending tax cuts for foreign companies; Starbucks may be forbidden from Forbidden City; problems at BlackBerry company RIM; Madame Tussaud's sold for a billion pounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: February 26, 2007 Rumors fly about Chrysler buyout; restructuring and possible Qatar investment for Airbus; Wal-mart closer to India deal, upsetting some Indians; Microsoft infringes MP3 patents; satellite radio companies may merge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: March 05, 2007 Rumors fly about Chrysler buyout; restructuring and possible Qatar investment for Airbus; Wal-mart closer to India deal, upsetting some Indians; Microsoft infringes MP3 patents; satellite radio companies may merge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: February 12, 2007 Hyundai chairman sentenced to three months in jail; bird flu in England; IBM selling off Lenovo stock; NASDAQ gives up on LSE buyout; Beatles and Steve Jobs' company settle on "Apple" trademark. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: February 19, 2007 Hyundai chairman sentenced to three months in jail; bird flu in England; IBM selling off Lenovo stock; NASDAQ gives up on LSE buyout; Beatles and Steve Jobs' company settle on "Apple" trademark. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: February 06, 2007 Tata Steel buying Corus; Michael Dell running Dell again; Shell and Repsol in deal with Iran; Microsoft releases Vista; Europeans don't like the euro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: January 22, 2007 Bank of Japan not raising interest rates; London Stock Exchange resists NASDAQ takeover; report blames cost-cutting and bad management for BP disasters; multinationals investigated for corruption in China; California fruit and vegetable crops ruined. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: January 29, 2007 Bank of Japan not raising interest rates; London Stock Exchange resists NASDAQ takeover; report blames cost-cutting and bad management for BP disasters; multinationals investigated for corruption in China; California fruit and vegetable crops ruined. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: January 15, 2007 Gazprom cuts off and then resumes oil to Belarus; Hugo Chavez plans to nationalize large businesses; ASEAN move forward; Apple releases a phone and changes their name; David Beckham moves to a big paycheck in Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: January 08, 2007 Belarus and Gazprom make a deal; Gucci owner may spend 70 billion euros on French utility; China raises bank reserve requirements; euro getting more popular; Germany quits German-French search engine project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: December 25, 2006 Bangkok stock market dives and recovers; big new cable across the Pacific being built; Westinghouse selling four nuclear reactors to China; Norwegian oil company buys another; big payout for Spanish lottery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: January 01, 2007 Bangkok stock market dives and recovers; big new cable across the Pacific being built; Westinghouse selling four nuclear reactors to China; Norwegian oil company buys another; big payout for Spanish lottery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: December 18, 2006 Few conclusions from American-Chinese economic talks; China opens up to foreign banks; Shell selling part of Sakhalin project to Gazprom; Dubai port operator sells American ports to British insurance company; higher bids for British steel company Corus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: December 11, 2006 Pfizer stop work on heart drug; Airbus financing the A350 XWB without government help; "Open Skies" airline treaty suffers a setback; Hong Kong drops plans for sales tax; British music stars want copyright term extended. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: December 04, 2006 Spanish power company Iberdrola is buying Scottish power company Scottish Power; Wal-Mart moving into India; American software company sued for bribes in China; Ford mortgages its future; Russian energy companies Gazprom and Rosneft getting along better. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: November 27, 2006 Steel business buyouts and attempted buyouts; airline buyouts and attempted buyouts; Richard Branson unhappy with British television network consolidation; NASDAQ trying to buy the LSE; US newspaper chains make a deal with Yahoo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: November 20, 2006 US Airways tries to become the world's largest airline; Sony's new PS3 leads to long lines in Japan and the US; Volkswagen management changes lead to rumors of Porsche takeover; another large American media company goes private; influential economist Milton Friedman dies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: November 13, 2006 US removes barrier to Russian WTO membership; China signs trade deals with Russia and African countries; EADS loses a big customer; Renault in joint venture to build cars in India; Novartis building R and D facility in Shanghai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: November 06, 2006 China buying lots of liquefied natural gas from Malaysia; BP shuffles Alaska leadership; Gazprom puts the squeeze on Georgia; Turkey's EU troubles; Vivendi may be for sale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: October 23, 2006 India's Tata Steel plans to buy British-Dutch Corus; MTV on China's Baidu search engine; Wal-Mart moving into China; Russian regulator has problems with another oil company; OPEC cuts production. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: October 16, 2006 Nobel prizes for financial ideas; Google buys YouTube; big profits at Infosys; Australian government selling a big piece of telecommunications company; richest person in China is a woman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: October 09, 2006 GM not joining up with Renault/Nissan; Iran cuts Japanese company's share in oil field development; online betting looks beyond the US; Singapore investment in Thailand turns sour; more delays for Airbus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: October 02, 2006 Renault and Nissan want to make a deal with GM or Ford; Bulgaria and Romania admitted to EU; huge class action suit against tobacco companies; Germany's E.ON raises bid for Spain's Endesa; big hedge fund collapses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: September 25, 2006 Good and bad news for Telecom Italia; Russia orders Shell to stop construction; Royal Society accuses Exxon Mobil of lying; World Band and IMF make decisions in Singapore; Merck of Germany buys Serono. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: September 18, 2006 OPEC considers falling oil prices; Telecom Italia splitting in two; Russian bank reformer assassinated; GlaxoSmithKline U.S. tax problems settled; IMF and World Bank gather in Singapore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: Septembe 11, 2006 livedoor founder trial begins in Tokyo; more oil found in Gulf of Mexico; Hewlett-Packard illegally obtains journalists phone records; Universal buying BMG Music Publishing from Bertelsmann; Alcatel and Lucent merging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: September 04, 2006 Canadian gold companies merge; Russian aluminum companies merge; Russian bank buys part of Airbus owner EADS; Chinese IMF voting rights increase; James Bond's car maker for sale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: September 04, 2006 Canadian gold companies merge; Russian aluminum companies merge; Russian bank buys part of Airbus owner EADS; Chinese IMF voting rights increase; James Bond's car maker for sale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: August 28, 2006 Venezuela providing oil to China; kidnappings disrupt Nigerian oil production; Apple settles patent suit and has their own Sony battery recall; big bank merger in Italy; Asean signs trade pact. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: August 21, 2006 New security measures possibly too much for airport manager BAA; fiery batteries and other problems for Dell; turnaround at Hewlett-Packard; PepsiCo promotes Indian woman to CEO; Indonesia looks for oil money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: August 14, 2006 More troubles in Alaska for BP; Adidas doing well; Coke and Pepsi bans in India; big deals for Google; Apple stock option problems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: August 7, 2006 Russian judges order Yukos to liquidate; Eurotunnel gets six-month extension; Toyota surpasses Ford in U.S. sales; AOL cutting workforce and giving away services; North American mining companies try to buy each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: July 31, 2006 Doha talks fail; profits and troubles at BP; Wal-mart pulls out of Germany, unionizes in China; operating profits down at Nissan and up at GM; Disney moves further into children's TV market in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: July 24, 2006 G8 encourages WTO to finish trade talks; online gambling chief executive arrested; "NatWest Three" extradited to U.S.; another leap for the Chinese economy; HSBC buys Central American bank. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: July 17, 2006 U.S. still blocks Russian WTO membership; Japanese Bank interest rate raised above 0; European commission fines Microsoft; China trade surplus $14.5 billion; problems with merger of Sony and Bertelsmann music divisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: July 10, 2006 World Cup financial winners; Kerkorian seeks GM-Renault-Nissan deal; guilty Enron chairman dies; India privatization plans on hold; attempted sale of Coca-Cola secrets leads to arrests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: July 3, 2006 Arcelor agrees to Mittal buyout; Japan government bond market briefly shuts down; Warren Buffet's big gift to Bill Gates' foundation; Univision buyout; Johnson & Johnson buys Pfizer's consumer products division. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: June 26, 2006 Bidding war for Hong Kong's PCCW; France iTunes law; Sinopec buys Russian oil interest; Reliance builds in West Bengal; too much wine in Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: June 19, 2006 Troubles at Airbus; Arcelor still looking over Mittal and Severstal; China trade surplus; German pharmaceutical company buyout; Nokia and Siemens form joint venture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: June 12, 2006 Spanish construction firm buys British airport operator; Japanese fund manager arrested for insider trading; IBM triples investment in India; protests over rise in Indian fuel costs; Google may leave China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: June 5, 2006 Arcelor steel company merging with Russia's Severstal; Daewoo founder sentenced; changes at GM; BASF buys American catalytic converter company; Nigerian rebels kidnap oil workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: May 29, 2006 Chinese computer scientist faked data, stole chip design; China ends IPO ban; Vietnam heading for WTO membership; Mexico's economy improves; Hewlett-Packard consolidating world-wide data centers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: April 24, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: May 22, 2006 Mittal steel continues its takeover bid of Arcelor; gold prices rise further; Berkshire Hathway invests in Israel; Toyota's record year; Austrian energy companies merge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: May 15, 2006 Bolivia nationalizes natural gas fields; Dick Cheney builds relationships with Kazakhstan oil; U.S. immigrants strike; Microsoft shares drop upon investment announcement; Volkswagen leadership difficulties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: May 8, 2006 China raises interest rates; Nissan and Honda do well, Ford and GM don't; Hyundai president arrested; Sun promotes Schwartz to replace McNealy; German economy looking better. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESL Business News: May 1, 2006 Tensions with Iran and oil prices; growth of Indian economy; Microsoft appeals European Commission ruling; US and IMF; Rosneft IPO. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website