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News and views from the business world with Mickey Clark and Andrew Verity.

In China today, forty UK businesses and the Prime Minister are banging the drum for British trade. We import far more from China than we export to the country. Business Secretary Vincent Cable tells us whether the visit will have any effect on the gap.

The FTSE100 is back up to where it was in 2008 before the banks collapsed. Mickey asks Justin Urquhart Stewart from Seven Investment Management whether the rally can last.

Brighthouse, the hire purchase chain, is making big profits in a tricky segment of the market. Leo McKee, its chief executive, defends it against accusations that it is exploiting the poor.

And the UK space industry has grown at an average of 10% a year over the past four years, bucking the trend set by the rest of the economy. As Science Minister David Willetts prepares to visit the UK's satellite monitoring station for the launch of the UK Space Agency's report on the size and importance of the British space industry, we speak to the agency's director, David Parker.