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13/04/2011

A record high for youth unemployment? Plus disagreement on the stock market's prospects, and could golf be transformed by big business?

The latest unemployment numbers are due out, with many predicting a record high for youth joblessness. We speak to David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College in the US.

On the topic of stock market performance recently, there have been wildly contrasting opinions between experts on how stocks will behave. We ask Andrea Buraschi, finance professor at Imperial College, how there can be such vast differences of opinion between experts.

For the first time in 16 years, a new MG car is coming off the production line at Longbridge. Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuis, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research, Cardiff Business School joins us.

Could big business transform the game of golf, in the same way that cricket's fortunes were transformed by the introduction of Twenty20? That's the dream of an outfit called Convers Sports Initiatives (CSI). Douglas Poole, chairman of the Golf Industry Association, tells us more.

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