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Barclays announces its full year results, but the spotlight will be on bonuses. Pre-tax profits are expected to be around 拢5.7 billion. We ask Alastair Blair, head of the UK and Ireland banking practice at Accenture, where these profits have come from.

Official figures out later this morning are expected to show prices rising at around 4 pence year-on-year under the government's preferred measure, the Consumer Prices Index. Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, shares his predictions.

Finance ministers in the Eurozone have agreed to set up a permanent bail-out fund in the region of 500 billion Euros, or 拢420 billion. The fund, which will be called the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will replace the current 440 billion Euro European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). To pick through the details, we hear from Jeremy Stretch, head of foreign exchange strategy at CIBC.

And more shops are shutting, and the North is feeling the worst of it. The programme hears from Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation.