• Pedestrians are look at an electric display showing the Tokyo stock index in Tokyo, Japan, on October 20, 2014. The Tokyo's benchmark stock average rose 578.72 points, or 3.98 per cent, to close at 15,111.23. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
    Pedestrians are look at an electric display showing the Tokyo stock index in Tokyo, Japan, on October 20, 2014. The Tokyo's benchmark stock average rose 578.72 points, or 3.98 per cent, to close at 15,111.23. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
  • A small enterprise Thai businesswoman uses her motorbike as the platform to sell local grown fruits, from the empty spot she has found on a busy pavement as workers pass by during the lunch break in Bangkok. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers met in Beijing, China, on October 22, to tackle a slowdown in economic growth in the region. Financial sources predict the Thai economy will grow only 1.7 per cent in 2014, less than the earlier forecast of 2 per cent, due to the lagging export performance and slow pace of domestic consumption. Barbara Walton / EPA
    A small enterprise Thai businesswoman uses her motorbike as the platform to sell local grown fruits, from the empty spot she has found on a busy pavement as workers pass by during the lunch break in Bangkok. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers met in Beijing, China, on October 22, to tackle a slowdown in economic growth in the region. Financial sources predict the Thai economy will grow only 1.7 per cent in 2014, less than the earlier forecast of 2 per cent, due to the lagging export performance and slow pace of domestic consumption. Barbara Walton / EPA
  • A Chinese woman sets up her new iPhone 6 with the help of an Apple store employee inside an Apple store in Beijing, China. Apple began delivering the iPhone6 and iPhone6 Plus to the Chinese mainland on Friday. Feng Li / Getty Images
    A Chinese woman sets up her new iPhone 6 with the help of an Apple store employee inside an Apple store in Beijing, China. Apple began delivering the iPhone6 and iPhone6 Plus to the Chinese mainland on Friday. Feng Li / Getty Images
  • Recruit Holdings president and chief executive Masumi Minegishi speaks to the media after a news conference in Tokyo on October 16, 2014. Staffing firm Recruit Holdings surged in its market debut in Tokyo on Thursday, with investors leaping at a rare opportunity to grab part of a big Japanese company with strong online growth prospects. Yuya Shino / Reuters
    Recruit Holdings president and chief executive Masumi Minegishi speaks to the media after a news conference in Tokyo on October 16, 2014. Staffing firm Recruit Holdings surged in its market debut in Tokyo on Thursday, with investors leaping at a rare opportunity to grab part of a big Japanese company with strong online growth prospects. Yuya Shino / Reuters
  • A boy walks past a Mercedes Benz logo on an electronic board at Colombo Motor Show. Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters
    A boy walks past a Mercedes Benz logo on an electronic board at Colombo Motor Show. Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters
  • A man walks past a billboard display showing the scenic Chinese capital near a construction site in Beijing, China, Tuesday, October 21, 2014. China's economic growth waned to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent last quarter, raising concerns of a spillover effect on the global economy but falling roughly in line with Chinese leaders' plans for a controlled slowdown. Andy Wong / AP Photo
    A man walks past a billboard display showing the scenic Chinese capital near a construction site in Beijing, China, Tuesday, October 21, 2014. China's economic growth waned to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent last quarter, raising concerns of a spillover effect on the global economy but falling roughly in line with Chinese leaders' plans for a controlled slowdown. Andy Wong / AP Photo
  • A worker takes a video with his phone as the former US president Bill Clinton, centre appears with senator Dick Durbin, left, and Illinois governor Pat Quinn as they address workers, labour leaders and business leaders at Wheatland Tube Company, on Tuesday, October 21, 2014, in Chicago. Clinton is the latest Democratic heavyweight to drop into Illinois to stump for Pat Quinn in his battle against GOP businessman Bruce Rauner. M. Spencer Green / AP Photo
    A worker takes a video with his phone as the former US president Bill Clinton, centre appears with senator Dick Durbin, left, and Illinois governor Pat Quinn as they address workers, labour leaders and business leaders at Wheatland Tube Company, on Tuesday, October 21, 2014, in Chicago. Clinton is the latest Democratic heavyweight to drop into Illinois to stump for Pat Quinn in his battle against GOP businessman Bruce Rauner. M. Spencer Green / AP Photo
  • Walmart employees and supporters block off a major intersection near the Walton Family Foundation to stage a protest calling for $15 an hour and consistent full-time work in downtown Washington. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
    Walmart employees and supporters block off a major intersection near the Walton Family Foundation to stage a protest calling for $15 an hour and consistent full-time work in downtown Washington. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
  • The Japanese Trade and Industry minister Yuko Obuchi bows deeply after concluding a news conference announcing her resignation at the ministry in Tokyo, Japan, on October 20, 2014 after submitting her resignation to prime minister Shinzo Abe. Obuchi resigned in the wake of a political funding scandal. Obuchi, daughter of the late prime minister Keizo Obuchi, had only been in the job since September 3, and was one of five female cabinet members in Abe's reshuffled cabinet. Kimimasa Mayama/ EPA
    The Japanese Trade and Industry minister Yuko Obuchi bows deeply after concluding a news conference announcing her resignation at the ministry in Tokyo, Japan, on October 20, 2014 after submitting her resignation to prime minister Shinzo Abe. Obuchi resigned in the wake of a political funding scandal. Obuchi, daughter of the late prime minister Keizo Obuchi, had only been in the job since September 3, and was one of five female cabinet members in Abe's reshuffled cabinet. Kimimasa Mayama/ EPA
  • Lufthansa planes stand at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany on Tuesday October 21, 2014. A German court rejected a bid by Lufthansa to force a union representing its pilots to call off a strike, the latest in a string of walkouts over retirement benefits. The state labour court in Hesse said on Tuesday that it rejected the airline’s suit and found no grounds to declare the strike illegal. The Vereinigung Cockpit union started a 35-hour walkout at Lufthansa’s short-haul fleet mid-Monday and extended it early Tuesday to the company’s long-haul services. The two sides have been fighting for months over the pilots' demand that Lufthansa keep paying a transition payment for those wanting to retire early. Fredrik von Erichsen / AP Photo
    Lufthansa planes stand at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany on Tuesday October 21, 2014. A German court rejected a bid by Lufthansa to force a union representing its pilots to call off a strike, the latest in a string of walkouts over retirement benefits. The state labour court in Hesse said on Tuesday that it rejected the airline’s suit and found no grounds to declare the strike illegal. The Vereinigung Cockpit union started a 35-hour walkout at Lufthansa’s short-haul fleet mid-Monday and extended it early Tuesday to the company’s long-haul services. The two sides have been fighting for months over the pilots' demand that Lufthansa keep paying a transition payment for those wanting to retire early. Fredrik von Erichsen / AP Photo
  • A member of the media films the new iPad Air 2, left, and iPad Mini 3 during an Apple special event on October 16, 2014 in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan /Getty Images / AFP
    A member of the media films the new iPad Air 2, left, and iPad Mini 3 during an Apple special event on October 16, 2014 in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan /Getty Images / AFP
  • German economy and finance ministers Sigmar Gabriel and Wolfgang Schaeuble (left) and their French counterparts Michel Sapin (second right) and Emmanuel Macron (right) smile after a news conference at the finance ministry in Berlin on October 20, 2014. Germany and France agreed on Monday to work towards a deal to boost investment and accelerate economic reforms to revive a stagnating euro zone economy, their finance ministers said. Thomas Peter / Reuters
    German economy and finance ministers Sigmar Gabriel and Wolfgang Schaeuble (left) and their French counterparts Michel Sapin (second right) and Emmanuel Macron (right) smile after a news conference at the finance ministry in Berlin on October 20, 2014. Germany and France agreed on Monday to work towards a deal to boost investment and accelerate economic reforms to revive a stagnating euro zone economy, their finance ministers said. Thomas Peter / Reuters
  • A woman waits for customers at a booth selling children's clothing at the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing, China on October 21, 2014. China's economic growth waned to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent last quarter, raising concerns of a spillover effect on the global economy but falling roughly in line with Chinese leaders' plans for a controlled slowdown. Andy Wong / AP Photo
    A woman waits for customers at a booth selling children's clothing at the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing, China on October 21, 2014. China's economic growth waned to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent last quarter, raising concerns of a spillover effect on the global economy but falling roughly in line with Chinese leaders' plans for a controlled slowdown. Andy Wong / AP Photo

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Best business images of the week - in pictures

Liz Claus

October 23, 2014

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Here are some of the best business pictures of the week to October 23.

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