This week on Taking Stock Susan Hayes Culleton looks at how Christmas is celebrated around the world and the different ways different nations spend their money and their festive season when she talks to Emma Howard Economist at TU Dublin.

In this month’s ‘Techscape’, with thanks to Renault, Susan talks to Newstalk’s own John Fardy about the ‘cinematic’ scale of the battle between Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner.

Plus, is the European Single Market dead? Susan talks to Ben Hall and Henry Foy of the Financial Times about the declining belief in the market among European economies.