All the President's Men

Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Trump's state visit to the UK has coincided with a flurry of multi-billion investments in British tech industries. But among the good news, there's money travelling in the opposite direction, with UK pharma giant GSK announcing massive investment in the US. And, for the UK steel industry there's disappointment, as hoped-for cuts to tariffs on UK exports to the US come to nothing. Sean Farrington looks and what's coming in, what's going out and what's staying the same with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and expert voices from the UK steel industry and the financial markets.

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0:47.2	President Trump has arrived in the UK and with him some of the bosses of the biggest
0:51.5	US tech companies.
0:52.9	We're going to hear from Microsoft about their 22 billion pound investment here.
0:56.9	We're going to hear from the UK steel industry.
0:59.2	Not so good news there.
1:00.3	It's hopes for 0% taxes, a tariff on its goods when they get to the US seem to have been dashed.
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