US President Donald Trump's decision to put a stop to all refugee admissions and temporarily bar people from seven Muslim-majority countries has sparked protests across the globe. The Trump administration is standing firm over its ban on immigration, despite court rulings against it. To find out more, Simon Rose was joined by Sohrab Ahmari, a columnist with the Wall Street Journal.
Guests: Sohrab Ahmari
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Share Radio's Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the businesses of Britain and the world. To help rattle through the day's events, Simon was joined by Share Radio's senior analyst Ed Bowsher. They discussed the FTSE 100 falling to a one-month low and sterling sinking, as Trump's travel ban rattled the financial markets, Vodafone's Indian business is in discussion regarding a major merger, Flybe's shares have fallen after the airline reported a slow start to 2017 & much more.
Guests: Ed Bowsher
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The Business of Film with film critic, James Cameron Wilson looking at the biggest winners and losers at the box office this week, including Lion, Jackie and what to expect at the Oscars.
Guests: James Cameron Wilson
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Helal Miah, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, reviews this week's stock market activity with Share Radio's Simon Rose. They take a look back at BT, Unilever, Dixons and Tesco from this week, as well as looking ahead to AstraZeneca, Royal Dutch Shell, and Vodafone.
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Join Share Radio's Simon Rose as he investigates what has been happening in the bourses and businesses of Britain and the world. To put the day's events in context, he was joined by Russ Mould, Investment Director at the online stockbrokers, AJ Bell. In today's wrap: the UK's biggest supermarket group, Tesco, has agreed to buy the UK's biggest food wholesaler, Booker Group; quarterly profits at BT have dropped 37%; Alliance Trust has agreed to buy out Elliott, a US activist investor that spent years pushing for management and structural changes at the Dundee-based financial services group; and the mortgage lender Paragon has reported that first quarter profits are in line with expectations due to cost controls and good trends in high margins and volumes.
Guests: Russ Mould
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The Prime Minister has become the first world leader to hold face-to-face talks with Donald Trump since his inauguration. Back home, Jo Stevens, the shadow Welsh Secetrary has resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet amid party turmoil over the upcoming Brexit vote. She announced it today via twitter and becomes the second Labour MP to resign in 24 hours after Shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq also announced she was stepping down last night. For today's Share Politics, Simon Rose joined by Geraint Johnes, Professor of Economics at Lancaster University Management School, and Adam Bienkov, UK Political Editor of Business Insider
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This is The Business of Sport with Share Radio's Michael Considine. Each week he provides you with the inside track on the world of sport. On today's show, Michael looks at takeover of Formula 1 by US media company Libery Media - and the end of the Ecclestone era. F1 commentator Kate Walker will be joined Michael in the studio. He also examines how sports franchises and clubs are looking to monetize their social media engagement - CEO of Fan Compass Jamie Pardi tells all. And Alex Clark will have this week's Extra Time.
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The Share Radio Evening Show teams up with the FT Money Editor Claer Barrett to talk Serious Money - the personal finance and investment highlights of her FT Money section. On this edition, Claer and Share Radio's Simon Rose talk about "why you should never own shares in the company you work for", discuss UBS targeting wealthy women and how living with dementia could turn into a financial crisis.
Guests: Claer Barrett
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This is The Magazine Review, Share Radio's look at the top political and financial stories of the week under the forensic eye of expert guests. Today's brains are Mark Atherton, Money Reporter at The Times and Charlotte Moore, Freelance financial journalist.
Guests: Mark Atherton,Charlotte Moore
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The Government has published its Article 50 bill, placing the UK on the road to departure from the European Union. The so-called 'Brexit trigger' clocks in at a mere 133 words. It must now get the approval of MPs following the Supreme Court's judgement earlier in the week. But as the Bill weaves its way through Westminster's debating floors and committee rooms, it won't just be MPs bustling away. Over in Whitehall, civil servants are preparing for the negotiations ahead, oiling the Government machinery's for the mammoth task of separating the UK from decades of EU rules and regulation. To help decipher the government's bill, and to find out if Britain's bureaucracy is ready for what comes after, Share Radio's Simon Rose was joined in the studio by Hugh Bennett, Deputy Editor at Brexit Central, and on the line by David Golten, Partner and Head of Commercial Litigation at Wedlake Bell LLP, and Gavin Freeguard, Head of Data and Transparency at the Institute for Government and author of the 2017 Whitehall Monitor - an annual health check of the UK's civil service
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