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Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington looks at what has driven the price of oil to its highest level in 4 years. Elsewhere, he'll examine the raft of earnings released by some of the world's biggest tech companies overnight. The boss of one of the world’s biggest generic pharmaceutical manufacturers tells Sean about why he thinks the UK's supply of medicines could be “at risk”. And we'll take a look at a controversy that's brewing in the world of snooker about the type of chalk used by players.

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0:38.9	Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live.
0:42.4	Hello, welcome.
0:43.5	It is Wake Up to Money.
0:44.7	The price of oil reached its highest level in four years.
0:49.3	So a barrel of Brent crude, over $120.
0:53.0	It's worth now after reports the US preparing for a longer-term
0:57.0	blockade of that straight of Hormuz. More on that coming up. We've had more big tech spending,
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