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Commodity prices fall and how charities could lose when cheques are abolished.

We look at falling commodity prices and how charities are claiming they will lose out on donations when cheques are abolished.

Commodities such as oil and natural gas have suffered big falls this week. Analysts are blaming it on a number of factors, from worries over the state of the global recovery to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Jonathan Barratt, Chief Economist at Commodity Broking Services in Sydney joins us.

Charities claim that they will lose hundreds of millions of pounds in vital income if cheques are phased out as planned in 2018. We speak to Sandra Quinn of UK Payments Council and Louise Richards, director of policy and campaigns at the Institute of Fundraising.

And later today the shareholders of British aerospace and defence company Rolls Royce will vote on whether to allow the appointment of foreign chairmen and chief executives. The change in rules would mean a relaxation of the so-called golden share agreement, the rules under which the government allowed Rolls Royce to be privatised. Howard Wheeldon, Senior Strategist at BGC Partners explains more.

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