Today

US central bank governor to sue Trump

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook will file a lawsuit challenging her removal by President Donald Trump, marking a major escalation in the president's battle with the US central bank. So does President Trump have the power to fire the governor? Roger Hearing hears from a legal e ... Show More

49m 27s

Yesterday

South Korean President and Trump meet at the White House

US President, Donald Trump welcomes the South Korean leader to the White House to discuss trade. He believes a deal can be done. The South African government has warned young women against taking up unverified foreign job offers promoted on social media campaigns. And make a big ... Show More

49m 25s

Aug 23

Fed Chair Powell signals US interest rate cut

As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signals a move to a rate cut in December, we find out what it means for the US economy and the financial markets. Also, friends again? Canadian PM Mark Carney calls a halt to some of the retaliatory tariffs imposed on the US. We find out wha ... Show More

49m 20s

May 2023

Elon Musk names new Twitter CEO

Elon Musk has announced his replacement as the chief executive of Twitter. He’s confirmed that NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino will succeed him in the role. To take up the post Yaccarino resigned her role at NBC Universal - where she had worked as Chairman of Global Adver ... Show More

27m 38s

Oct 2023

Elon Musk's X: The Twitter takeover a year on

After many months of news headlines about whether Elon Musk was going to buy Twitter, he eventually completed the purchase on 27 October 2022. Since then, the company’s been through some big changes; laying off most of its 8000 employees, a rebrand to ‘X’, and reinstating some pr ... Show More

18m 24s

May 2022

Musk would let Trump back on Twitter

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would reverse Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump, and all but one of the global investment banks in China finally managed to eke out a profit last year. Plus, a look at the new president of the Philippines, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Mentioned in ... Show More

9m 37s

Apr 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

Three major stories could change the way we get our news. The multi-million-dollar streaming service CNN+, once billed as the broadcaster’s future, has shut down after less than a month. Over in Silicon Valley, Elon Musk has signed a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. And the UK ha ... Show More

27m 50s

Sep 2020

An Interview with Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger

On this special episode of Back to Biz with Katie and Boz, Katie takes the mic solo and shares her conversation with Disney Executive Chairman, Bob Iger. Early on, Iger dreamed of becoming the next Walter Conkrite and landed a job as the local weatherman for a small upstate New Y ... Show More

58m 16s

Mar 2023

Elon Musk And The Twitter Trolls

Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is now much less able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation. Marianna takes the rest of the Americast team though her BBC Panorama investigation into how one of the world ... Show More

41m 43s

Oct 2021

A September Jobs Miss - Pres. Biden's Commerce Secretary Reacts, Tesla Moving Its HQ From California to Texas, Elon Musk’s Message on Production and the Chip Shortage, Apple's Supply Chain and the Chi

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber led off the show with the big news of the morning: The much-anticipated employment report shows 194,000 non-farm jobs were created in September, well below the 500,000 that economists had been expecting. The unemployment rate fell to 4 ... Show More

43m 24s