In pictures: The best business images of the week to March 20, 2014

A woman walks past a giant advertising board outside a shop in central London. The British economy grew by 0.7 per cent in the final quarter of last year, its fastest pace since 2007. Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA

A protester stands behind a banner during a rally against layoffs in the public sector in Athens. Thousands of striking Greek public sector workers marched through Athens on Wednesday to protest against planned job cuts demanded by foreign lenders. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters

Muppet Kermit the Frog rings the the New York Stock Exchange opening bell, to promote his new movie “Muppets Most Wanted.”. Richard Drew / AP Photo

Matthias Mueller, head of German carmaker Porsche, poses inside a Porsche 911 Targa 4S luxury sports car on the sidelines of the company’s annual press conference at the Porsche museum in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen, southern Germany. Bernd Weissbrod / AFP /DPA

The Canary Wharf financial district and central London emerge from morning fog in London. Metropolitan Police / Reuters

Representatives from the internet social media service ROI KOI wear light-up globes on Sixth Street during the music portion of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films and emerging technologies. Ashley Landis / EPA

Pet Horstmann, head of the Fahrradhof bike shop in Altlandsberg, eastern Germany, looks out of his house decorated with 210 old bikes. Inside, the shop offers more than 1,000 new bikes for sale. Patrick Pleul / DPA / AFP

Almond trees bloom in a plantation Hustopece, Czech Republic, which was created in the 1950s for the country’s own source of almonds for chocolate production. Radek Mica / AFP

A worker gathers coals in a bag before being sold at one of the charcoal sites in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Faisal Al Nasser / Reuters

Labourers work on the construction of the Arena de Sao Paulo Stadium, one of the venues for the 2014 World Cup, in the Sao Paulo district of Itaquera. Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

A long exposure of ships passing on the Main river past the new headquarters of European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Boris Roessler / EPA

An Indian man carries vegetables on a bicycle at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Saturday, March 15, 2014. India's key inflation rate has dropped to its lowest level in nine months. The easing of the price increases comes less than a month before general elections in the world's most populous democracy. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Coal is excavated at the Jim Bridger Mine, owned by energy firm PacifiCorp and the Idaho Power Company, outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming. Jim Urquhart / Reuters

A cleaner chants slogans through a loudspeaker in front of riot police men that secure the entrance of the Greek finance ministry, in Athens. Greek finance minister Yannis Stournaras held new negotiations with representatives of the debt-mired country’s bailout creditors on demanded reforms, following six months of fruitless on-and-off talks. Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo

Here are some of business images around the world for the past seven days to March 20, 2014.