Reuters Breakingviews today announced the launch of a new weekly podcast, 'The Big View,' to explore the most pressing issues in global finance, economics and policy through conversations with influential experts. Breakingviews Global Editor Peter Thal Larsen and his team tap their best sources to dig deeper into the topics tackled by the daily 'The Big View' column, with Breakingviews columnists and guests offering informed insights into the forces reshaping industries and shaking financial markets.

Building on Breakingviews' more than two decades of providing agenda-setting commentary on finance and business, 'The Big View' podcast, available every Tuesday, will help listeners understand what is happening now and take an informed view about what happens next. The podcast draws on the expertise and high-level contacts of Breakingviews' 30 columnists and editors in Europe, North America and Asia to demystify complex topics and provide insightful, global views.

"We use high-level conversations with senior corporate executives, financiers, policymakers and other experts to shape and refine our views.  'The Big View' draws on these senior contacts to explore the interplay between technological innovation, economic policy and geopolitical rivalries," said Larsen. "Each week, our columnists and I will sit down with insightful experts to help listeners understand all sides of a pressing issue and answer the question, 'what happens next?'" 

Breakingviews, the international commentary brand of Reuters News, delivers agenda-setting financial insight in real time on the most important events impacting global markets, economies and corporate finance. The team of award-winning columnists based in major financial centers including New York, London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Mumbai, Melbourne and Milan provides unparalleled expert editorial analysis to audiences in and around corporate boardrooms.

Listen and subscribe to 'The Big View' podcast on Reuters.com and the Reuters app. The daily 'The Big View' column can be found on LSEG Workspace under code BRVTBV, on Reuters.com and for Breakingviews subscribers on Breakingviews.com. Breakingviews 'Viewsroom' podcast is available every Thursday.

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