Welcome to Business Matters here on the BBC World Service with me, Rahul Tandon.
Plenty coming up on the programme.
We're going to be talking about how China's control of rare earths is causing problems for some European car manufacturers.
Why is the US debt getting bigger and bigger?
And cybercrime a growing threat.
We're going to hear about one of the gangs.
that is behind it.
As always, we have two guests from opposite sides of the world.
We have Karen Percy, independent journalist based in Australia.
How are you, Karen?
Oh, I'm very well.
I'm very pleased to hear that the Australian economy is growing just ever so slightly,
despite everything that's going on.
How much is it growing?
Point two percent.
So the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has been beating his chest about, hey,
we're at least going slightly forward when the rest of the world perhaps is not.
But definitely lots of potential headwinds in Australia.
And I know that's the case all over the world.
So everybody watching and waiting to see what what might happen next in the White House.