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Wake Up To Money

The art of the deal

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington gets the latest on crucial trade talks in South Korea. And, in a week of massive financial reports from some of the globe's biggest tech companies, we talk to an pioneer on the importance of AI in the future success of the sector, Also, an economist reads the runes on the latest US interest rate changes and the likelihood of taxes rises in the UK budget.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

They call themselves Evil Corps, a cybercrime gang accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.

0:13.0

And at the center of it all, one of the FBI's most wanted.

0:17.0

They ran their operations out of the back of an Italian restaurant in Moscow.

0:22.0

How does a man hunted by the world's top law enforcers still manage to grow an empire?

0:26.6

These guys were going to town on small businesses across America.

0:30.9

They anger, the frustration, the fear.

0:33.5

Cyberhack, evil core. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:38.5

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:41.7

Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. The Chancellor grabbing the headlines as Rachel Reeves breaks housing rules with her rental, while the conversation about the budget turns to income tax rises. We'll get into all that.

0:54.5

We'll hear the very latest from those crucial trade talks between presidents Trump and Xi. Will the AI investment

1:01.8

ever stop increasing as the likes of Facebook and Google talk about tens of billions more spend?

1:07.6

Is it actually starting to be useful?

1:09.9

Wake up to money with Sean Farrington.

1:13.3

Good morning to you, it is. Wake Up to Money on BBC 5 live on this Thursday morning,

1:18.8

the 30th of October. Where are we at? 33 minutes past five this morning. Hope you are well.

1:26.3

If you've had a glance at the morning papers already, you might

1:29.5

have scrolled to that page that we all look out on the BBC website to see the front pages of the

1:33.1

papers. You might have been to your local garage already. If they've got the papers in already,

1:37.3

let me know where that is. I'm always trying to fish out an early newspaper at the weekend.

1:40.9

But when I look at the papers, I get timely delivered here every

1:46.1

morning and wake up to money. Rachel Reeves, one way or another, is making headlines

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