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Sue Dougan was joined by Kevin Pratt, web editor at Money Supermarket.com. Today on the agenda, they discussed Britain's biggest tax bill for 30 years. Plus they look into why people who borrow 100 pounds from a bank could be charged up to 156 pounds more than a payday lender. All these stories and more on The News Review.

The government has won another key vote on the EU in the Commons - but not without a small rebellion. Seven Tories voted with the opposition parties on the call to enshrine MPs' right to an earlier - and significant - vote ahead of Brexit. It followed a verbal concession from ministers that they would get a say. Sue Dougan was joined by Billy Bambrough, Editor of economics and business website Verdict.co.uk to discuss if there are more oppositions ahead.

Joining us to discuss what the main market headlines of the morning are is Share Radio's very own Juliette Foster. A busy morning of Regulatory News Statements. Gsk are releasing its 4th quarter update later today so what can we expect? And Rio Tinto and Dunelm also had some numbers out. Juliette told Sue Dougan more about how they were doing.

A British network provider is launching a 10 Gigabit Ethernet service available to businesses. Exponential-e says it provide some of the highest network speeds in the world to most businesses across the country. It comes after 75,000 businesses signed a letter of complaint to Parliament about poor network connectivity last year. Share Radio's James Brydges spoke to John Kyrillou, one of the directors of Exponential-e.

Despite a growing number of vacancies and demand for new workers many bosses are struggling to fill roles due to a lack of available candidates. A new report by Markit and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, shows that January saw a marked fall in the number of applicants causing major problems for recruiters. To discuss the findings Juliette Foster was joined by Tom Hadley, Director of Policy at the REC.

Today we're going to look at a new book about the fine art of speculation. What's the difference between investment speculation and gambling? Is there indeed any difference? Stuart Banner, professor of Law at UCLA has been examining this subject by delving back into investing history in his new book "Speculation: A history of the fine line between gambling and investing"

There have been more long nights in Westminster as MPs continue to debate the Bill which would let the Prime Minister trigger Britain's exit from the EU. Whilst the Commons gave an initial thumbs up to the Bill last week, this week is the Committee stage, giving opposition a chance to park their tanks on the Government's lawn. A litany of amendments have been proposed by Labour and the SNP and, though most have been shot down, earlier this afternoon the Government promised MPs they'd get a vote on the final deal. Meanwhile, Sajid Javid has described the British housing market as 'broken' as he unveils the Government's housing White Paper. A 3-billion pound fund will be set up to help small firms build 25-thousand new homes in England by 2020. For all this and more, Share Radio's Glen Goodman was joined by Laura Sainsbury of FTI Consulting, Lord John Shipley, the Liberal Democrat's Shadow Housing Minister, and Adam Bienkov, UK Political Editor at BusinessInsider.

Share Radio's Glen Goodman brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the businesses of Britain and the world. To help put the day's events in context, Glen was joined by Chris Bailey, founder of the investment research and consultancy service, Financial Orbit. On today's show: It's been a mixed day on the currency markets, higher oil prices and cost-cutting measures have resulted in BP doubling its profits in the last three months of last year, and Aldi has overtaken the Co-operative as Britain's fifth biggest supermarket.

Are UK investors still keen in stocks over the Atlantic now that Donald Trump has taken position as US President? Share Radio's Michael Considine put the question to Kully Samra, Managing Director at Charles Schwab when they caught up earlier.

It's time once again for Emerging Opportunities the only show on your radio dedicated to global emerging markets. Share Radio's Glen Goodman is joined by Gavin Serkin, Managing Editor of the Frontier Funds Consultancy and the author of 'Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow' On today's edition: Well, it's hard to know where to start. In two weeks President Trump has been abandoning key trade agreements, threatening trade wars from China to Mexico, while cosying on the phone with Vladimir Putin - hours later, pro-Russian forces are fighting the army in Ukraine. Trump also attempted to block all visits to the US for any nationals from a group seven Muslim countries, blowing away all hope for Iran - one of the seven - breaking free from decades of sanctions, as he declared Iran the world's No. 1 terrorist state. So, how to make sense of the impact from all of that on the rest of the world? Fortunately Gavin & Glen were joined in the studio by one of the most experienced and successful of emerging market investors, the co-founder of Ashmore and founder of New Sparta, and the author of "Emerging Markets in an Upside Down World," Dr. Jerome Booth.