Business week in pictures

Premier Wen Jaibao struck a pessimistic tone during Angela Merkel's visit to China, telling reporters how worried he was about the eurozone crisis Photograph: Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty Images

After the regional government in Catalonia said this week that it needed a €5bn (£3.9bn) bailout from the central government in Madrid, Castellon's €150m airport is a dramatic symbol of public waste in another Spanish region that has seen its banks collapse, its deficit soar amid corruption scandals Photograph: Heino Kalis/Reuters

Barclays has appointed Antony Jenkins as its new chief executive - the former head of the bank's retail and business arm vows to restore bank's reputation as it faces SFO inquiry Photograph: PR

The announcement came as the Serious Fraud Office launched an investigation into payments made after Barclays tapped Qatari investors for emergency funds in 2008 Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters

AstraZeneca has appointed pharma industry veteran Pascal Soriot from Swiss rival Roche as its chief executive, ending months of leadership uncertainty Photograph: Peter Frommenwiler/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fears over the future of JJB Sports have intensified after the retailer said it had failed to secure the funds needed to overhaul its stores Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

August is not yet over but Christmas has come four months early at Asda, which has opened a string of Santa's grottos at stores across the country Photograph: Jim Holden/Alamy/Alamy

Marks & Spencer said on Tuesday that the latest poll of confidence among its shoppers had delivered its most positive score in more than two years, providing some good news for its embattled chief executive, Marc Bolland Photograph: Max Nash/PA

Abigail Johnson has been promoted to run all of Fidelity Investments' main businesses on Wednesday; she is now in pole position to take over the vast US mutual funds business that her grandfather set up in 1946 and which now manages $1.6tn (£1tn) of assets Photograph: Essdras M Suarez/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Dublin's Burlington Hotel, which changed hands for €288m (£228m) at the height of the property boom, is up for sale for a quarter of that price. The four-star Burlington, one of Europe's biggest city centre hotels, was bought in 2007 Photograph: Collins Agency/Collins Agency

Barnes & Noble, the US bookseller, has secured a deal with John Lewis to distribute its Nook e-reader as it seeks to dent Amazon's dominance of the UK digital book market Photograph: Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Security contractor G4S is targeting developing markets in the hope they will take a more forgiving view of its bungled Olympics security contract than British politicians did, after it emerged the fiasco has cost the group £50m Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA