Eye of the storm
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As geopolitics continues to dominate early 2026, Felicity Hannah has the latest on events around Greenland and Iran.
Closer to home, we take a look at jobs market, consumer credit card debt, and speak to one of the businesses that's been handling the impact of Storm Goretti over the weekend.
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| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. |
| 0:26.0 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:40.6 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:45.8 | We are waking up to more drama for the US Central Bank. |
| 0:49.5 | The American Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the Fed's chairman Jerome Powell. |
| 0:55.1 | He says it's politically motivated. We'll ask what investors think. Then we'll have the latest |
| 1:00.0 | on events around Iran and Greenland. We'll take a look at the jobs market and we'll chat to a |
| 1:05.5 | community that's been weathering the, well the weather after a weekend disrupted by Storm |
| 1:10.0 | Goretti. |
| 1:12.2 | Wake up to Money with Felicity Hannah. Very good morning to you. Welcome to Wake Up to Money |
| 1:18.3 | on Monday the 12th of January. It's four minutes past five. It is the 12th of January. It is my first |
| 1:24.2 | wake up to money of 2026. So I'm just going to say it, happy new year. Very, very glad to have your company this morning. I promise that's the last time I will now say it, 12th of January, officially too late for happy new years. But there is absolutely loads to come in the next hour. We're going to be looking at the latest report into jobs just after about 5.30. So I do want to hear |
| 1:45.6 | from you this morning. I always want to hear from you. Get in touch and let me know what you're |
| 1:49.4 | seeing in terms of recruitment, employment, jobs in your workplace or in your industry. Are you |
| 1:55.8 | hiring? Are your bosses hiring? Is it slowing down? Are you changing who you're hiring? Maybe you're not taking on as |
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