Best business images of the week - in pictures

Hubertus Troska, the chairman and chief executive of Daimler Greater China, is silhouetted against a screen showing a graph of the Chinese passenger vehicle market in the past 15 years, as he speaks to reporters at an opening ceremony of the company's Mercedes-Benz research and development centre in Beijing on November 3, 2014. Daimler has opened a research and development centre in Beijing tasked with further tuning its Mercedes-Benz brand to wealthy Chinese tastes and closing the sales gap with Audi and BMW. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

Passengers walk off an aircraft gangway out of a Thai Airways airplane as a Air Asia plane comes into land at Phuket international and domestic airport on November 2. Phuket airport is undergoing a major airport expansion construction. As the third largest airport in Thailand, after Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang, it handles more than double its originally built purpose of six million passengers a year capacity. The new airport expansion is expected to be finished in 2016. Barbara Walton / EPA

Windmills are seen in Mojave, California on November 1, 2014. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

A worker operates a lathe machine as he makes a steel cutter at a manufacturing unit in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on November 3, 2014. Indian factory activity expanded at a modest pace in October, as stronger demand led manufacturers to add jobs for the first time in four months and allowed them to raise prices, a business survey showed on Monday. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters

Small fishing boats float anchored on the opposite shore of a port under construction in the Bay of Mariel, Cuba. The island nation has yet to announce any foreign investment projects for the Mariel trade zone after the port opened with $600 million from Brazil — two-thirds of the project's cost. Cuba asked international companies on Monday, November 3, 2014, to invest more than $8 billion in the island as it attempts to kick-start a centrally planned economy starved for cash and hamstrung by inefficiency. Franklin Reyes / AP Photo

People wait in line enter a government-run employment office in Madrid on November 4, 2014. The number of registered jobless in Spain rose by 1.78 per cent in October from a month earlier, or by 79,154 people, leaving 4.53 million people out of work according to data showed on Tuesday by the Labour Ministry. Andrea Comas / Reuters

A worker grinds an iron window frame used in a dairy machine at a manufacturing unit in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on November 3, 2014. Indian factory activity expanded at a modest pace in October, as stronger demand led manufacturers to add jobs for the first time in four months and allowed them to raise prices, a business survey showed on Monday. Amit Dave / Reuters

A statue of Henry Royce stands outside Rolls-Royce in Derby, central England. British engineer Rolls-Royce plans to cut 2,600 jobs to save money and has replaced its finance director, aiming to restore confidence following two profit warnings in eight months. Rolls-Royce dates back to 1884 and has around 55,000 staff worldwide. Darren Staples / Reuters

A screen displays the APEC logo on the National Stadium, or the "Bird's Nest", during a lights and fireworks rehearsal for the upcoming APEC Summit in Beijing. Reuters