Asia Market Week
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Asia Market Week is a weekly business
news
programme on CNBC Asia
, airing on Fridays at 18:00 Hong Kong
/ Singapore
/ Taiwan
time with daylight saving time
. It also airs on CNBC World
and CNBC Europe
at various times during the week.
The programme is presented by Maura Forgarty and consists of highlights of the business news in Asia during the previous week. It runs for thirty minutes. The theme music on the programme is that which was used by Today's Business
on CNBC US between 2000-2002.
The programme takes its name from the now defunct CNBC US program Market Week
with Maria Bartiromo. Internationally, the equivalent programme on CNBC Europe is Europe This Week
, a previous incarnation of which was called European Market Week.
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
news
News
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programme on CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....
, airing on Fridays at 18:00 Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
/ Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
/ Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
time with daylight saving time
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time —also summer time in several countries including in British English and European official terminology —is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less...
. It also airs on CNBC World
CNBC World
CNBC World is a business news channel operated in the United States by NBCUniversal.The channel broadcasts programs from CNBC's international channels. Specifically, most of the business day schedules of CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia are simulcasted. Several other pre-taped shows from CNBC's...
and CNBC Europe
CNBC Europe
CNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...
at various times during the week.
The programme is presented by Maura Forgarty and consists of highlights of the business news in Asia during the previous week. It runs for thirty minutes. The theme music on the programme is that which was used by Today's Business
Today's Business
Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. The show gives news that will probably affect the trading day ahead.Today's Business was the equivalent program on...
on CNBC US between 2000-2002.
The programme takes its name from the now defunct CNBC US program Market Week
Market Week
Market Week is business network CNBC's program aired in the past, hosted with Maria Bartiromo.-Worldwide Market Week:Around CNBC's global branches, there are many counterparts of Market Week in the world:...
with Maria Bartiromo. Internationally, the equivalent programme on CNBC Europe is Europe This Week
Europe This Week
Europe This Week is a business news show aired on CNBC Europe and on CNBC World in the US, co-presented by Guy Johnson and Louisa Bojesen, from 6pm to 6:30pm CET on Fridays....
, a previous incarnation of which was called European Market Week.
Asia Market Week anchors
- Martin Soong (April 6, 2001–2003)
- Maura Fogarty (2004–2010)
- Chloe Cho (2010–Present)