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Britain's small businesses know what they want from the Chancellor and amongst the items topping their wish list are government initiatives to boost productivity, infrastructure investment along with partnerships to stabilise the economy as the country prepares for Brexit. Yet most small firms are concerned about the business rates. They believe it's an area that's ripe for urgent reform and they want Mr Hammond to use his budget to bring the rates in line with inflation. to see if this is likely, Juliette Foster spoke to Mike Cherry, National Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses.

Companies are being driven to divest by geopolitical disruption - that's according to the EY's Global Divestment report. EY finds a whole host of unpredictable political, business, and regulatory changes are pushing firms to sell off entities as they grapple with instability. For more, Share Radio's Alex Clark spoke to Paul Hammes, EY's Global Divestiture Advisory Services Leader.

Juliette Foster was joined by Billy Bambrough, Editor of economics and business website Verdict.co.uk this morning. Today on the agenda, they discussed obviously the Spring budget and what we can expect. Plus they look into how Nestle is cutting the amount of sugar in its chocolate bars by 10%. All these stories and more on The News Review

It's not just Brexit causing uncertainty for investors - upcoming elections in France, The Netherlands and Germany could produce headwinds for markets. What can investors do and should they trust the polls? Stephen Macklow-Smith, is Head of European Equity Strategy and manager of the JPMorgan European Investment Trust, JPMorgan Asset Management, joined Share Radio's Juliette Foster.

What can we expect from Chancellor Hammond? Juliette Foster was joined by Josh Lowe of Newsweek to discuss if we will see any surprises. Another big story of the day was the government suffer's a second Brexit defeat in the House of Lords after peers backed calls for a "meaningful" parliamentary vote on the final terms of withdrawal - what does that mean? Has the Lords told the government that parliament should be given the vote over the final Brexit deal?

Joining Juliette Foster to discuss the latest market headlines was Share Radio's very own Nigel Cassidy starting with Chancellor Philip Hammond announcing his first Budget at 12:30. Just what effect can we expect it to have on the markets? And on the morning's of big political and economic events such as today, do we tend to get many company announcements? Nigel was here to go through all this and more from the markets this morning.

As we await the Chancellor's Spring Budget at 12.30pm today, there have been many predictions on what to expect, especially with regards to tax policy. So what is likely to be announced and what are businesses expecting? To break this down with Nigel Cassidy is George Bull, senior tax partner at business advisers RSM giving his predictions.

LoopUp, the Shoreditch-based company which offers conference call and meetings solutions to various companies such as Travelex, Kia Motors America, Planet Hollywood and National Geographic has released it's latest full year results today. So to find out how the company is doing, Nigel Cassidy was joined by Steve Flavell, Co-CEO of LoopUp Group plc to talk through the numbers and what the company is up to.

Budget day is upon us. Chancellor Phillip Hammond will be taking the stage from 12.30pm where he will deliver the last one to take place in the spring - unless he changes his mind of course. So how will the markets react to this Budget? Joining Nigel Cassidy was Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets to give his analysis.

Most people have either reserved a taxi using Uber or booked a room in someone's house via Airbnb. Both companies are an everyday fixture in our lives yet despite the fact that neither of them have any physical assets, they're worth billions of Dollars. The Airbnb and Uber founders belong to a new generation of tech entrepreneurs whose ambition, limitless drive and "anything's possible" attitude have earned them the nickname of "The Upstarts". That's also the name of a new book analysing the rise of such companies, and how these and other Silicon Valley organisations are changing the world. Juliette Foster speaks to best-selling author, Brad Stone.