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

Olivier Boulay, director of Daimler's Advanced Design Centre, talks to reporters at an opening ceremony of the company's Mercedes-Benz research and development (R&D) centre in Beijing on November 3, 2014. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

An engineer oversees a system at the gas storage facility of Hungarian state-owned energy group MVM in Zsana on November 3, 2014. Hungary will not face gas supply problems this winter as stores are close to 70 per cent full, containing about 4.3 billion cubic metres of gas, MVM executives said on Monday. Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

Take a look at some of our favourite pictures from the business world up to November 6.