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The British Chambers of Commerce has increased its economic forecast for both this year and next, but downgraded its outlook for 2018. The business body expects GDP to grow by 2.1% this year, up from the 1.8% it forecast just three months ago. However, it reported that uncertainty over our relationship with the EU, and higher inflation, will affect medium term growth. Suren Thiru, head of economics at the BCC spoke to Glen Goodman to talk about their Quarterly Economic Survey in more detail.

Guests: Suren Thiru

Published: Mon 12 December 2016

After several years of falling food prices, this trend finally looks set to reverse, with food and drink prices expected to increase over the next 12 months. Prestige Purchasing have just released their 2016 Food & Drink Inflation Report- to find out more Glen Goodman spoke to David Read, the CEO and founder of Prestige Purchasing.

Guests: David Read

Published: Mon 12 December 2016

Historically, December has been the second strongest month of the year on average for stocks, a phenomenon known as the Santa Claus rally. Glen was joined by Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.

Guests: Colin Cieszynski

Published: Mon 12 December 2016

The Business of Film with film critic, James Cameron Wilson looking at the biggest winners and losers at the box office this week, including Fantastic Beasts, Sully and Arrival.

Guests: James Cameron Wilson

Published: Fri 9 December 2016

How much do you think you'd be paid to carry out the tasks involved in organising Christmas? If your guess was £558, then you're spot on. Research commissioned by One4All, the multistore gift card company, reveals that a quarter of us don't mind going above and beyond to make Christmas special for their families. To find out how we can prepare for Christmas and New Year, Olivia Demetriades spoke to Liz Taylor, a party planner and event organiser.

Guests: Liz Taylor

Published: Fri 9 December 2016

Every week on The Entrepreneur Show we speak to the interesting people behind businesses. This week it's the turn of Jeremy Davies, the CFO and one of the founders of Flender, a social lending network.

Guests: Jeremy Davies

Published: Fri 9 December 2016

Every week on The Entrepreneur Show we speak to the interesting people behind businesses. This week it's the turn of Alex Ziff, who is inventor of a dating app called CiaoDate.

Guests: Alex Ziff

Published: Fri 9 December 2016

Different styles of investors choose where to put their money for different reasons. Growth investor try to find companies which they think will grow faster than the rest of the stock market, while value investors opt for solid companies which are expected to perform solidly rather than spectacularly over the longer-term. Momentum investors try to cash in on market trends by buying or selling investments as they come in to and go out of fashion. Despite the volatility seen in the last 12 months, 2016 looks to be the year of the value investor, with record levels of investor money flowing in to this investment style. Robyn Dwyer was joined by Simon Colvin, analyst at IHS Markit.

Guests: Simon Colvin

Published: Fri 9 December 2016

Businesses are waiting to find out more about what the trading environment might look after the UK leaves the EU before committing themselves to investing. That's according to the latest quarterly economic barometer from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Despite this, the ICAEW's forecast for economic growth in 2016 has been modestly upgraded from 1.8% to 2%. To find out more about this Robyn Dwyer Stephen Ibbotson, ICAEW Director of Business,

Guests: Stephen Ibbotson

Published: Fri 9 December 2016

Simon was joined live in the studio with Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy Middlesex University London, to discuss 1. Railways and the privatisation of so called 'public goods': 2. Why do some nations hold more gold? 3. Why an EU strategic re-fresh is long overdue

Guests: Tim Evans

Published: Thu 8 December 2016