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Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington looks ahead to a key inflation release. And, as new figures show an uptick in fledgling hospitality businesses, we hear from one that's just started up.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:08.8

Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.

0:11.3

Coming up, more property tax proposals reported that are being considered by the Chancellor.

0:17.6

What should happen next with houses, particularly when they are sold? We'll have a look.

0:23.0

The makers of the Lubbubu doll now worth more than other toy makers, Hasbro and Mattel. And we're

0:28.2

going to check in on the hospitality sector, despite the struggles, lots of new businesses

0:33.3

opening. We're going to hear from one boss about why they've chosen to do it.

0:37.9

Wake up to money with Sean Farrington. Plenty going on today. I've got Emma Wall with me.

0:42.9

Head of Platform Investments for Hargreaves Landsdam. Morning to you. Emma.

0:48.0

Good morning. And David Hall as well, managing director of Britta in the UK. David, morning.

0:53.8

Morning to you, Sean.

0:55.0

Now, Emma, we've, just as I flick through the headlines of the papers,

0:59.0

we're waiting for details about price rises

1:02.7

and how much prices have been going up a little later this morning.

1:06.4

It feels like there's a lot going on with our economy right now.

1:09.9

A lot of eyeballs on which way it

1:12.4

might be going. We've been talking about increased government borrowing costs this week.

1:16.6

More headlines in the papers today about property taxes that may come in one way or another.

1:22.4

And amidst all of that, is prices on the up. How are you viewing the British economy at the moment?

1:28.1

We have to say we're pretty cautious on it and our clients are pretty negative on it.

1:32.2

So we do this pulse survey called the Investor Confidence Survey and we got the figures in last

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