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More than 6.5 million households have either none or very little savings according to new research from The Equality Trust. More than 40 per cent of working households have too little saved to pay even a month's worth of household bills, let alone cover one-off bills such as the typical £540 cost of a replacement boiler. Over a third of households owe more in debt that they have saved. Our reporter Mary Newman spoke to John Hood, from the Equality Trust.

Robyn Dwyer is joined in the studio by Kevin White, Head of UK Financial at De Vere. Today they discuss the big story of the day, that the National Institute for Economic and Social Research is forecasting inflation will quadruple to about 4 per cent in the second half of next year. Elsewhere, and and its bad news for the economy as UK growth will slow sharply next year due to Brexit. But some good news for airline EasyJet as pilots have accepted a new deal - meaning they won't strike over concerns about fatigue. All these stories and more on The News Review.

Just five weeks ago, shares in Sareum Holdings rocketed over 150% after it announced its cancer drug candidate had been licensed to Nasdaq listed ProNAi Therapeutics. The company discovers and develops innovative drug candidates aimed at cancers and autoimmune diseases and its results are out. Dr Tim Mitchell is the CEO and he joined Share Radio to discuss the numbers.

Federal Reserve officials have been meeting over the past two days and later we'll learn the result of their deliberations. It's widely predicted they will leave short-term interest rates unchanged, and indicate they remain on track to raise them in December. But how strongly will they signal their intentions just a week before the US elections? Kully Samra, Managing Director at Charles Schwab, joined Share Radio to offer his view.

Manufacturers from all over the country are gathered in Birmingham this week for one of the biggest events in their calendar, the Manufacturer of the Year Awards. In a very uncertain period for the industry, thanks to the fall in the value of sterling, Share Radio's Nick Peters joined us live from Birmingham to discuss the mood and what we can look forward to.

Every week The AIM Show hears from the boss of one of the companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market.

This is Emerging Opportunities, the only show on radio dedicated to global emerging markets. Your hosts are Share Radio's Juliette Foster and Gavin Serkin, the Managing Editor of the Frontier Funds Consultancy and author of 'Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow'. So - just in case you're tuning in from Mars, we're now less than a week away from the US election. With global markets swinging on an increasingly tight race, and with Europe convulsing on Brexit, many investors are wondering whether the risks might in fact be lower in emerging markets. Well, to find out, Juliette and Gavin were joined all the way from New York by Dan Keeler, Editor for Frontier Markets at the Wall Street Journal.

Sub-Saharan Africa is on course for weak economic growth by the end of the year - according to recent IMF figures. Regional GDP in 2015 was 3.5%, the lowest in fifteen years although it could shrink to 3% by the end of the year. The sharp fall in commodity prices hasn't helped especially for countries like Nigeria and Angola, which make their wealth from exporting oil. In contrast, oil-importing countries like Ivory Coast, Kenya and Senegal have seen their GDP rise by 5% or more thanks to infrastructure investment and strong private consumption. So what are Sub-Saharan Africa's prospects? Does the overall weakness prove the area's recent growth momentum has stalled? Alemayehu Geda is Professor of Economics at the University of Addis Ababa and he joined Share Radio's Juliette Foster in the studio along with Professor John Weeks, Share Radio's regular economics commentator.

This week financial journalists Lindsay Cook and Vix Leyton enter the ring to fight for your rights in the financial world. We take a look at whether you should planning for the holiday season yet. Also on the agenda, how half of parents admit to being “piggy bank raiders” and who will get their sucker punch award this week?

Virtual reality has become a major new technology capable of transporting people to fantastical landscapes in a game or film set. Increasingly though it is also being used as a tool by journalists, teachers, healthcare workers and retailers to help understand the world around us. Ben Smith is CEO of Laduma, a virtual reality company, and he spoke to Georgie Frost to explain more.