William Lee Adams

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176 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Jul

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Marketplace All-in-One · Trump's Greenland ambitions dominate Davos · 20 Jan 2026 podcast

This morning, U.S.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told reporters in Davos that the worst thing that European states could do would be to escalate the row by imposing retaliatory tariffs.

Okay, let's do the numbers.

Those tariff threats continue to pressure European markets.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 fell 0.7 percent a day after its sharpest intraday decline in two months.

Elsewhere, French carmaker Renault said that sales rose 3.2 percent last year, driven by deliveries outside of Europe.

Japan's Minister for Tourism Yasushi Kaneko says more than 42 million foreign visitors came to the country last year, setting a new record.

However, in the last few months of the year, the number of Chinese tourists fell sharply, as Mr. Kaneko explained.

Japan's tourism minister Yasushi Kaneko.

The BBC's Megan Lawton has more.

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

Marketplace All-in-One · Putting China's economic figures in context · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

Will there be a trade war between the U.S.

and Europe over Greenland?

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

I'm William Lee Adams.

Good morning.

The dispute between European countries and the United States over Donald Trump's determination to annex Greenland continues to escalate.

A full European Union summit will be convened on Thursday to consider a collective response as diplomats try to avoid a trade war with Washington.

Speaking at a press conference in the last couple of hours, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the use of tariffs against allies is completely wrong and warned that households, small businesses and working people are those who feel it first if supply chains are hit.

Here's the BBC's Katja Adler in Brussels.

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