William Lee Adams

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Marketplace All-in-One · Trade talks underway between the U.K. and China · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

Thanks a lot.

And we're just seeing on the news wires that they've now agreed on visa-free travel for Britons to China for 30 days.

All right, let's do the numbers.

Swiss watch exports rose 3.3% year-on-year in December to hit $2.7 billion.

A reduced U.S.

tariff helped reverse four months of declines.

And one of Russia's largest oil companies, Lukoil, has agreed to sell most of its foreign assets, thought to be worth around $20 billion, to the U.S.

private equity firm, the Carlyle Group.

South Africa has been grappling with 30% U.S.

tariffs since August, restricting key industries like automotive and agriculture.

But farmers there are also looking to China, hoping a deal to export stone fruits can present new opportunities.

Here's the BBC's Mo Ali.

And in the UK, I'm William Lee Adams with the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

Will Elon Musk buy Europe's biggest budget airline?

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm William Lee Adams.

Good morning.

tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked another fight.

This time it's with Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, Europe's largest airline based on passenger numbers.

Mr. O'Leary said that Ryanair wouldn't be offering Mr. Musk's Starlink satellite services on the airline's planes.

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