2025-08-02
26 分钟Hello, welcome to World Business Report here on the BBC World Service.
My name's Ed Butler.
On today's edition,
one day after Donald Trump has offered trade deals to some and punished other countries with higher tariffs,
we're assessing the winners and losers of what we've been seeing from Europe to Canada to East Asia.
And we're asking what it could mean for the future.
As to what it means for the global economy, it will mean...
Less efficient production.
It will mean higher inflation and will probably mean lower demand.
Plus, if you're one of the nearly one billion workers around the world who work remotely these days,
tell me, when do you really tend to clock off at the end of the working week?
You got me.
Hang on, it's ten past three.
Are you working from home?
Well, technically, no. Some people do stay till five.
Some people don't.
We will be asking that question forensically later in the show.
First up, though, the US job market has slowed sharply, we've discovered today.
In the last month,
the figures show that just 73,000 jobs were added to the US economy and job creation generally has been substantially weaker than had been previously estimated.