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If the UK doesn't balance the books, the bond market won't be happy.
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
Venezuela could be stripping several Spanish airlines at their right to land there,
and Serbia has a big oil supply problem.
Britain's Finance Minister Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to raise taxes for both individuals and businesses in the UK's budget on Wednesday.
She says the money is needed to cut health services,
waiting lists, reduce the country's debt and steady the economy.
Fiona Sincotta, a senior markets analyst at City Index.
Fiona, hello, what are you expecting tomorrow?
Well, there's been lots of speculation for what feels like months now.
I mean, what we do know, spending has been high and gross has been low.
So tax hikes almost seem pretty much guaranteed.
We are expecting more tinkering around the edges rather than that rise in income tax that had been floated previously.
But the market is going to be looking for the chancellor to fill around a 30 billion black hole,
which also includes a buffer.
That is not an easy job at all.