Business week in pictures

The World Bank has warned that the crisis in the eurozone will lead to a sharp slowdown in growth in rich and poor countries this year and could spiral into a rerun of the 2008-09 recession Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

Kodak has filed for bankruptcy in a bid to survive a liquidity crisis after years of falling sales related to the decline of its namesake film business as digital cameras have taken over the market Photograph: Peter Kneffel/EPA

Bankers at Goldman Sachs have been accused of living in a parallel universe after the Wall Street firm announced it had set aside £8bn to pay its staff in 2011 – an average of £238,000 each Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

But Fidelity, one of the biggest investors in the stock market, has spoken out against "over-generous" and "over-complex" boardroom pay and called for shareholders to be given extra powers to vote down cash and share deals Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA

Fresh & Easy has been an expensive US road trip for Tesco, with the chain racking up losses of £700m since the first stores opened in the autumn of 2007. To date Tesco has ploughed more than £1bn into establishing the US venture Photograph: Damian Dovarganes)/AP

More than 100 stores once belonging to defunct high street retailer Woolworths still lie vacant three years after its collapse, it has emerged. Some 13% of the 807 former Woolies stores are empty, compared with 30% a year ago, according to a report by the Local Data Company Photograph: John Keates /Alamy

Growth in shale oil and gas supplies will make the US virtually self-sufficient in energy by 2030, according to a BP report published on Wednesday. In a development with enormous geopolitical implications, the country's dependence on oil imports from potentially volatile countries in the Middle East and elsewhere would disappear, BP said, although Britain and western Europe would still need Gulf supplies Photograph: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A series of strikes by workers at the consumer goods giant Unilever will start on Wednesday at several sites in a row over pensions. Unions claimed the walkouts would hit production of brands including Persil, PG Tips, Marmite, Pot Noodle, Lynx, Flora and Wall's ice cream Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Workers at John Lewis are unlikely to strike over terms and conditions. Staff also receive employee perks – worth £70m this year – ranging from holiday homes to sailing clubs, theatre outings, theme park admissions, and even a choir, all subsidised. It also one of the dwindling number of companies to operate a final salary pension scheme which is funded entirely by the company Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Inflation fell at the fastest rate in three years in December, to a six-month low of 4.2%, raising hopes that the squeeze on hard-pressed households' living standards will start to abate in 2012. Pictured: There has been a huge rise in scooter sales as commuters are hit by increased fuel and parking costs Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

Unemployment across the economy rose by 118,000 in the three months to November, to 2.68 million, the ONS said, in the latest sign that the UK slowed sharply in the autumn Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images