• US president Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal is captured by the after being delivered to the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 4. Gary Cameron / Reuters
    US president Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal is captured by the after being delivered to the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 4. Gary Cameron / Reuters
  • A bank worker takes a photograph of damage after violent protests outside the Global Forum Spain economic conference in Bilbao. Vincent West / Reuters
    A bank worker takes a photograph of damage after violent protests outside the Global Forum Spain economic conference in Bilbao. Vincent West / Reuters
  • An attendant holds a bitcoin sign during the opening of Hong Kong’s first bitcoin retail store on February 28. Bobby Yip / Reuters
    An attendant holds a bitcoin sign during the opening of Hong Kong’s first bitcoin retail store on February 28. Bobby Yip / Reuters
  • A miner from Aurelsa mining company drills stones containing gold materials in a tunnel near Relave in southern Peru. Relave is home to Aurelsa, one of the first small-scale mines in the world to produce gold certified and marketed as “ethical”. Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters
    A miner from Aurelsa mining company drills stones containing gold materials in a tunnel near Relave in southern Peru. Relave is home to Aurelsa, one of the first small-scale mines in the world to produce gold certified and marketed as “ethical”. Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters
  • A building under construction is seen in fog in Rizhao, Shandong province. China’s property market is likely to see at most a moderate correction in prices in some small cities this year. Reuters
    A building under construction is seen in fog in Rizhao, Shandong province. China’s property market is likely to see at most a moderate correction in prices in some small cities this year. Reuters
  • Residents are seen in the Villa 31 slum, which has grown 50 per cent in the past four years to currently house some 40,000 people. A sharp currency devaluation in Argentina in January has worsened one of the world’s highest inflation rates. Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
    Residents are seen in the Villa 31 slum, which has grown 50 per cent in the past four years to currently house some 40,000 people. A sharp currency devaluation in Argentina in January has worsened one of the world’s highest inflation rates. Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
  • Nepalese farmers carry wicker baskets of supplies as they return to their homes in the village of Khokana on the outskirts of Kathmandu, famous for its unusual mustard-oil harvesting process in which a heavy wooden beam is used to crush mustard seeds in order to extract the oil. Prakash Mathema / AFP
    Nepalese farmers carry wicker baskets of supplies as they return to their homes in the village of Khokana on the outskirts of Kathmandu, famous for its unusual mustard-oil harvesting process in which a heavy wooden beam is used to crush mustard seeds in order to extract the oil. Prakash Mathema / AFP
  • People sleep on a sidewalk in Buenos Aires. One in four Argentine families now rely on state welfare programs ranging from payouts for the unemployed to scholarships for poor high school students. Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
    People sleep on a sidewalk in Buenos Aires. One in four Argentine families now rely on state welfare programs ranging from payouts for the unemployed to scholarships for poor high school students. Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
  • A construction crew erects scaffolding at sunset on a new housing project in Silver Spring, Maryland. Gary Cameron / Reuters
    A construction crew erects scaffolding at sunset on a new housing project in Silver Spring, Maryland. Gary Cameron / Reuters
  • A construction worker rests on a rooftop at a housing construction project area in Bukit Raja Klang outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s government on February 28 announced that the higher threshold price for foreigners to own property will go into effect from March 1 in federal administered territories. Samsul Said / Reuters
    A construction worker rests on a rooftop at a housing construction project area in Bukit Raja Klang outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s government on February 28 announced that the higher threshold price for foreigners to own property will go into effect from March 1 in federal administered territories. Samsul Said / Reuters
  • A miner takes a break outside a tunnel near Relave, a mining village in southern Peru. Relave is home to Aurelsa, one of the first small-scale mines in the world to produce gold certified and marketed as “ethical”. Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters
    A miner takes a break outside a tunnel near Relave, a mining village in southern Peru. Relave is home to Aurelsa, one of the first small-scale mines in the world to produce gold certified and marketed as “ethical”. Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters
  • Indian women sort red chillies to dry at Shertha village in the western Indian state of Gujarat. A worker earns around fifteen rupees for removing the petiole of 20kg of red chili. Ajit Solanki / AP Photo
    Indian women sort red chillies to dry at Shertha village in the western Indian state of Gujarat. A worker earns around fifteen rupees for removing the petiole of 20kg of red chili. Ajit Solanki / AP Photo
  • A doorman stands outside Lloyds of London. London’s financial services sector created 25 percent more jobs in February than a year ago, new data has shown. Eddie Keogh / Reuters
    A doorman stands outside Lloyds of London. London’s financial services sector created 25 percent more jobs in February than a year ago, new data has shown. Eddie Keogh / Reuters
  • Passengers wait in front of a broken propaganda poster featuring “the China Dream” outside the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, in western China. Alexander Yuan / AP Photo
    Passengers wait in front of a broken propaganda poster featuring “the China Dream” outside the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, in western China. Alexander Yuan / AP Photo
  • A cleaner walks past a reflection of luxury fashion advertisements at a mall in Singapore. Edgar Su / Reuters
    A cleaner walks past a reflection of luxury fashion advertisements at a mall in Singapore. Edgar Su / Reuters
  • Satellite dishes of Germany’s biggest commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG are reflected in the windows of their headquarters in Unterfoehring, near Munich. Michaela Rehle / Reuters
    Satellite dishes of Germany’s biggest commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG are reflected in the windows of their headquarters in Unterfoehring, near Munich. Michaela Rehle / Reuters
  • Workers walk across a footbridge towards the Canary Wharf business district in London. London’s financial services sector created 25 per cent more jobs in February than a year ago, new data has shown, indicating the industry may be recovering. Eddie Keogh / Reuters
    Workers walk across a footbridge towards the Canary Wharf business district in London. London’s financial services sector created 25 per cent more jobs in February than a year ago, new data has shown, indicating the industry may be recovering. Eddie Keogh / Reuters
  • An Afghan street vendor, left, sells spices to a customer in Kabul. Afghanistan’s economy is recovering from decades of conflict but despite the significant improvement in the last decade it is extremely poor, and highly dependent on foreign aid. Nicolas Asfouri / AFP
    An Afghan street vendor, left, sells spices to a customer in Kabul. Afghanistan’s economy is recovering from decades of conflict but despite the significant improvement in the last decade it is extremely poor, and highly dependent on foreign aid. Nicolas Asfouri / AFP

Business

In pictures: The best business images of the past week

Liz Claus

March 05, 2014

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Hong Kong opens its first bitcoin retail store. Ethical mining in Relave, south of Peru. These are some of the most striking business stories during the past week, captured in images.

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