Down to earths

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Felicity Hannah hears the latest developments in the trade war between the US and China, reignited after Beijing imposed a new round of controls on those rare earths and minerals essential to the production of everything from mobile phones to weapons. Also, a new idea to revive the economies of the UK's former industrial heartlands. But will new incentives to save on taxes for companies willing to invest succeed where other initiatives have failed? And, it's no surprise we're a nation of pasta lovers. But are we really going off the humble spaghetto in favour of pappardelle and tortellini? We talk to a pasta maker about the shape of things to come.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.1	Can I just say?
0:07.6	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:10.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:11.7	So nice.
0:12.5	There are loads more like it on BBC Sounds.
0:14.8	Different paces, different heights, the roof is buckling.
0:17.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:20.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:21.6	Oh!
0:22.7	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:27.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:31.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:32.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:35.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:47.5	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. Plenty to get into after a busy weekend of tit-for-tat trade tiffing between the world's two largest economies.
0:53.5	If China will course correct by upholding its end of the initial trade agreement we outlined in Geneva,
1:00.2	and I believe after our talks in London, they will, then the rebalancing of the world's
1:04.9	largest, two largest economies is possible.
1:08.0	Well, that was U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant Bissant after the US and China reached an agreement
1:12.7	over the principles of a new trade framework.
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