Hannah Maundrell Editor in Chief and Head of Content at Money.co.uk, joins Ed Bowsher in the studio to discuss the biggest finance stories of the last 24 hours. On the agenda today, middle-class families in money trouble as they would need to borrow to pay an unexpected bill of £500, Mike Ashley faces MPs as he tries to defend his 'good name', the Gatwick expansion would save consumers money plus much more. Consuming Issues goes out every week day from 9 to 12 on Share Radio.
Guests: Hannah Maundrell
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 8:00
Kully Samra, Managing Director at Charles Schwab, discussed the US economy ahead of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, after the recent non-farm data release. Janet Yellen, the Chair of the US Fed, said that the tone was “fundamentally solid, but laced with uncertainty”, in a speech in Philadelphia indicating that the next rate cut has been kicked further down the road.
Guests: Chris Bailey,Kully Samra
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 7:00
The latest spending data from Barclaycard shows that consumer spending jumped 3.6% in May, after weak figures in March and April. But what are the reasons behind this? Paul Lockstone, Managing Director from Barclaycard, joined to discuss.
Guests: Chris Bailey,Paul Lockstone
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It's time for another session with Money Fight Club! This week, Ed Bowsher is sparring with financial heavyweights Lindsay Cook and Anne Caborn on how Financial stress is causing 17.5m lost working hours a year, how most online clothes shoppers send something back, and how retirement homes are great for builders but not so much for buyers.
Guests: Anne Caborn,Lindsay Cook
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Gadgets and Gizmos with Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Share Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher joins Georgie Frost in the studio on a bright Monday morning, to go through all the latest financial stories crossing our desks. Today, parents are being found to obsess so much over their phones that their children are left unsupervised. Meanwhile, a mobile payment war is in full swing, and scam sites making a mint off Euro 2016!
Guests: Ed Bowsher
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Original Broadcast: Emerging Opportunities With Gavin Serkin
Welcome to a brand new edition of Emerging Opportunities - the only show on your radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets, with Juliette Foster and Gavin Serkin, the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News. Today is a special show focusing on a country that was making headlines a couple of weeks ago when President Obama visited - and removed the last vestiges of an arms embargo that has been in place since the Vietnam War. To find out the situation on the ground, Gavin spoke with Khanh Vu, Director at one of Vietnam's largest money managers, VinaCapital. He also spoke with Marcus Svedberg, the Chief Economist at East Capital, which manages over $2 billion in emerging markets, to get his take on the likely winners and losers as we enter what could be an extremely volatile few months.
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Original Broadcast: The Apprentice Investor
Welcome to today's edition of The Apprentice Investor. Regular listeners to the show will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build individual share portfolios. They have a minimum of eight stocks, which they've been buying and selling through The Share Centre. So, six months into the year how are those portfolios looking? Are they in Grade A condition or languishing in Minus territory? Apprentices Ruby Johnson and Matt Cox have joined me in the studio and standing by with observations and advice is Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.
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Original Broadcast: Conversations From Africa
On this week's show, Chris Bishop Managing Editor of Forbes Africa discussed South Africa avoiding a credit downgrade to junk status. Chris will also look at South Africa's political landscape and Telcom while he also looks at Muhammad Ali's legacy in Africa.
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 7:00
EU transport policies are imposing staggering costs on taxpayers and consumers for very little benefit, according to a new study from the Institute of Economic Affairs. Dr Richard Wellings, Head of Transport at the Institute of Economic Affairs and one of the authors of new IEA report, 'STUCK IN BRUSSELS: Should transport policy be determined at EU level?', joined to explain.
Guests: Emma Wall,Richard Wellings
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