The business week … in pictures

With special guests culled from reality TV shows such as Dancing on Ice and The X Factor, Argos TV is unlikely to be the critics' choice. Broadcast on Sky channel 642, Argos's new offering, filmed in an unprepossessing industrial estate in north London, can be found by viewers surfing through the shopping channels Photograph: Tom Boyd

Boeing has delivered its first 787 Dreamliner to Japanese customer All Nippon Airways (ANA). Boeing says its carbon fibre design cuts fuel consumption by 20% and the plane gives passengers a more comfortable ride with better cabin air and large electronically dimmable windows Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

Cairn, the British oil company leading a controversial drive to discover new oil and gas reserves in the pristine waters off Greenland, has come under fire from environmentalists and again disappointed investors after failing to find anything with its sixth well Photograph: PR

UBS was described as being in 'disarray' after the sudden resignation of its chief executive prompted calls for further changes at the top of the Swiss bank, in the wake of $2.3bn (£1.5bn) of losses from alleged rogue trading Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

The Bank of England stands on the brink of printing more electronic money to prevent a slide back into recession and surge in unemployment amid warnings that the world's major economies are heading for a 'massive jobs shortfall' by the end of next year. Ben Broadbent, who joined the MPC in the summer, said any further signals that the UK economy was about to contract would persuade him to boost the bank's £200bn quantitative easing programme Photograph: Graham Turner/Graham Turner for the Guardian

The long-running feud between Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and easyJet has reached new heights of bitterness with the entrepreneur threatening to launch a rival airline and accusing the management of the company he founded of orchestrating a smear campaign against him Photograph: Don McPhee

The boss of Game insisted the video games market was not in terminal decline as the specialist chain fell to a first half loss of more than £50m. And Games such as FIFA 12, which launches this week, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which is out in November, are predicted to be Christmas's big sellers Photograph: PR

Boardroom bosses are being warned of shareholder concern about the ever-increasing size of their pay packets in an influential new code that requires bonuses to be 'clawed back' in the event that performance targets are not met Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

Defence company BAE Systems has confirmed it is cutting almost 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military aircraft division. The biggest job cuts will be at sites in Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire and at Brough in east Yorkshire, although jobs will also be lost at the firm's head office in Hampshire Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

The Financial Services Authority is sitting in on board meetings of the some of the biggest firms in the City as it steps up its surveillance of those institutions it believes could pose a major risk to the financial system. In an attempt to rectify some of the criticism it faced in the wake of the collapse of Northern Rock, the FSA is now demanding access to the inner workings of big banks and other high-risk groups as part of what Hector Sants, the chief executive of the City regulator (pictured), regards as an 'eyeball-to- eyeball' approach to regulation Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian