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Wake Up To Money

BBC

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington looks at the US Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates and what that could mean for the Bank of England.

We talk to the outgoing boss of GSK on why they're focusing investment in the US over the UK.

And finally, we look at ticket prices for next year's World Cup.

Transcript

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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-hip Christmas bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.4	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.7	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money over in the United States.
0:43.9	Interest rates have been cut.
0:47.1	Today, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to lower our policy interest rate by a quarter percentage point.
0:53.7	That's the governor of the Federal Reserve over in the US, Jerome Powell, talking about cuts
0:58.3	there.
0:58.8	What might it mean for us here in the UK, the Bank of England?
1:02.0	We've got a decision to make next week.
1:04.8	We're going to be talking more about investment advice.
1:07.8	The rules around, it could be getting looser.
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