Original Broadcast: Share Radio Morning
Charles Taylor, the international provider of professional services to the insurance sector has released full year results today. So how is the company doing? Joining Nigel Cassidy to discuss the numbers is David Marock, CEO of Charles Taylor.
Guests: David Marock,Mike Ingram
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
Car dealer Lookers has posted record profits for the year to the end of December - its eighth successive year of turnover and profit growth. Revenue increased 17% to £4.3 billion, while profit before tax rose by 46% to £91.8 million. To analyse the numbers, Robin Gregson, CFO of Lookers, joined Nigel Cassidy on Share Radio Breakfast.
Guests: Robin Gregson
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New data suggests more women are getting involved in online investing. 42% of female investors use digital platforms. Investment platform SyndicateRoom has also found that women are twice as likely as men to be dissatisfied with traditional brokers. Share Radio's James Brydges spoke to Gonçalo de Vasconcelos, CEO and Co-founder of SyndicateRoom
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
IBM has made its quantum computing system commercially available to businesses and beefed up an existing system used by the research community. The firm is hoping to boost the numbers of people able to use such computers. The machine, based in New York, has been available via the internet since May last year. Simone Severini is a quantum computing expert, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow, and has been speaking to James Brydges
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
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.
Guests: George Bull
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
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.
Guests: Steve Flavell
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
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.
Guests: Mike van Dulken
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The Culture Secretary's going to ask the watchdog to look into two public interest issues regarding the proposed takeover of Sky by 21st Century Fox. They are media plurality and commitment to broadcasting standards. Karen Bradley's told the Commons her decision isn't the end of the matter. Both parties have until tomorrow to give any further input. Mrs Bradley will make a decision within a week on whether to intervene in the merger. Meanwhile to find out why the deal is so controversial, James Brydges heard from competition lawyer Howard Cartlidge, from law firm DWF, but first got the financial angle from Michael Hewson, market analyst at CMC markets.
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
The housing market has seen a slight fall in prices over the last couple of months, is this likely to change over 2017? And what can we expect on housing from the Chancellor's budget this Wednesday? Nigel Cassidy spoke to Russell Quirk, Founder and CEO eMoov to discuss further.
Guests: Russell Quirk
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Original Broadcast: Share Radio Breakfast
Now to some company results - SQS, which describes itself as leading global specialists in software and act as consultants for companies across the world in a variety of different sectors, helping them ensure quality through their software. Today they released their latest set of full year results, so how are they doing? Nigel Cassidy was joined by Diederik Vos, CEO of SQS to give us the low-down.
Guests: Diederik Vos
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