Cocoa Hops

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington discusses the rising bills that could hit the pub sector, in the wake of business rates changes.

Elsewhere, he'll turn his attention to the US, where the Fed will announce its decision on rates.

And, will consumer demand keep up with increasing chocolate prices?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas Kitchen Disno season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hop Christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.2	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.6	Hello, welcome. We are wake up to money.
0:42.6	Changes to rules on business rates could cost publicans, brewers, millions.
0:47.4	So say industry representatives.
0:49.8	We're going to hear from them ahead of an annual summit that they've got today.
0:52.9	Still trying to get our head
0:54.2	around exactly what is going on with business rates and the impact for so many companies
0:59.6	around the country after the budget.
1:01.2	Ahead of the Bank of England's decision next week on interest rates, we're going to turn
1:06.3	our attention to the US where the Federal Reserve there, their central bank, will announce its decision a bit
1:11.9	later today, and that can have a ripple effect on economies right around the world, and it is
1:16.5	the time of year, where chocolate, of course, seemingly inescapable, but price rises,
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