Trick or £400m Treat

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Felicity Hannah looks at the government's energy-bill discount for energy intensive industries, helping around 500 businesses and saving up to £420 million per year on their bills.

We have the latest market news, including Amazon and Apple earnings.

And it’s spooky season, with people spending more than before. We look at how much and why.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius.
0:24.1	Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius.
0:26.4	It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:29.4	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:34.9	Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:38.6	Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live.
0:42.1	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:43.9	We'll be bobbing for Apple this morning.
0:45.7	Its results are out.
0:46.7	They are scarily good.
0:48.5	The terrifying cost of energy bills will be cut for some.
0:51.8	A discount on industries like steel, ceramics, glass, paper, chemicals.
0:56.1	How much of a difference, though, will the government's new supercharger scheme make?
1:00.4	Then it's been another busy week, eye-watering tech earnings, meetings with the world's biggest powers,
1:06.0	are bigger than expected gap in public finances.
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