Business week in pictures

A Chinese company is buying Volvo from Ford for £1.2bn, making it China's biggest purchase of an overseas carmaker and one of its largest foreign investments
Photograph: Steven Shi/Reuters

Members of Unite demonstrate near Heathrow airport with cardboard cut outs of BA chief Willie Walsh. British Airways warned passengers to expect cancellations as cabin crew returned to work following a four-day strike
Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

Heavyweight boxer David Haye films a promo for Sky Box Office before his fight with John Ruiz. Media regulator Ofcom has demanded that BSkyB make a 23.4% cut in price of Sky Sports 1 and 2 to rivals such as Virgin Media and BT
Photograph: British Sky Broadcasting Ltd/Rex Features

Wind turbines off the coast of Prestatyn, north Wales. Siemens of Germany this week announced a £75m wind turbine plant that will create hundreds of jobs and boost the government's green credentials
Photograph: Christopher Thomond

An aerial view of the Bank of England and the City of London. Credit ratings agency S&P this week warned they may downgrade the UK's rating following the election, should the victor fail to substantially cut the budget deficit
Photograph: David Levene

The boss of Punch Taverns, Giles Thorley, who called time on his nine-year tenure at Britain's biggest pub company and its massive debts
Photograph: Jason Alden/Newscast

Cars await dismantling and recycling in Gloucester. Alistair Darling's insistence that the economy would still be stuck in recession without a leg-up from the Treasury was boosted by news that public spending and the car scrappage scheme had been essential to generating a recovery in the final quarter of 2009
Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Savings rates on display in an Alliance and Leicester building society window in the heady days of 2008. A consumer watchdog is submitting a "super-complaint" on behalf of savers to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) after an investigation found people with a cash Isa could be missing out on £3bn a year in interest
Photograph: David Sillitoe

Irene Rosenfeld, the woman who masterminded Kraft's controversial takeover of Cadbury. Rosenfeld was awarded a pay rise of more than 40% last year, taking her annual pay package to more than £17m
Photograph: Alessandro Della Bella/Keystone/AP

What connects the space shuttle Atlantis and faulty accelerators? Well, Nasa and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the US government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden technical problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls
Photograph: Bruce Weaver/Reuters