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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm David Harper and coming up on this edition, the latest figures show that the UK economy grew rather unexpectedly by 0.1%.
We'll look at whether it's a cause to celebrate for the government here.
Could AI regulation be holding back development in Europe?
We ask an executive at one of the big players in the industry and Norweg airlines.
Despite a $19 billion loss in the last quarter, investors appear to be positive.
I've been speaking to the company's chief executive first, though, at this time yesterday on World Business Report, we talked about the Japanese carmaker Nissan.
In particular a possible merger with Honda, which was looking less likely, and the rumours that the electronics manufacturer Foxconn was taking an interest.
Well, today this happened.
It is deeply disappointing that we were unable to reach an agreement on the deal.
However, we were both able to see the potential synergy with Nissan through this process and we will try to maximize it on the strategic partnership agreed last.
August with Mitsubishi Motors.
Honda's chief executive, Toshihiro Mibe, confirming that the merger talks are now dead and with it the end to a tie up which would have created the world's third largest automaker.
Well, in the past few hours, Nissan has announced a drop in profits and cut its annual profit forecast.