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Want to give someone a gift but don’t want it to be the same old stuff from last year? Abby and Ivy of Oh Happy Gift turn gifting into an artform by creating beautifully customized boxes full of items from a certain theme. The duo create cute packages for everyday occasions and also have specially designed bundles for festive seasons. We talk to the founders of Oh Happy Gift on the simplicity of giving the perfect gift, the importance of packaging, and the art of giving the perfect gift.  

As of today, nearly $13 trillion of hard-earned global capital sits in government bonds offering negative yields. up from nearly none a couple years ago. Almost all this paper belongs to heavily indebted but so-called 'developed' countries like Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. How did we get here? What does it mean? And what's next? The team discuss a phenomenon which has frightening similarities with 2009, when 'subprime' took the form of individual borrowers, not indebted nations..

Antonio Garcia Martinez is a seasoned player in the tech mecca that is the Silicon Valley- he has been an adviser to Twitter, a product manager for Facebook and also founded AdGrok, a venture backed startup that was acquired by Twitter. We tap into that insider perspective to learn more about his own adventures, along with the power plays and hijinks happening in companies that are driving some of the greatest tech revolutions in the world.

The Morning Run crew gives you their take on today's business headlines:

- HSR details emerge with great speed

- MAB flies low into the budget segment

The Morning Run crew gives you their take on today's business headlines:

- Netflix's share price still buffering

- Microsoft's cloud revenue jumps sky high

- Softbank is ARM-ing itself

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives

Tushar Mohata of Nomura discusses Genting's good fortunes despite headwinds like the disruption from site construction on Genting highlands, higher gaming taxes, GST's introduction and waning sentiment, showing the inelasticity of the sector to pricing pressures.

Other positive catalysts include Genting's soon-to-be-launched RM10 billion integrated masterplan and the peaking of a two-year decline in high-roller footfall at Genting Singapore.

The Manipal Group is a household name in India and Malaysia. The Manipal Institute of Technology is a globally recognised and respected educational institution. A substantial portion of Malaysian doctors is also alumni of the Manipal University in India. In this breakfast grille we get an update on Manipal's hospital in Klang as well as the expensive new campus of Manipal International University in Nilai. Dr Arun also shares his opinion on testy issues like the TPPA and the proposed dispensary separation.

With earnings season in the US in full swing, Dodge Dorland, Chief Investment Officer of Landor & Fuest Capital Managers in New York, discusses the difference in the market's reaction to earnings announcements this time around, especially in its immediate short-term reaction.

The negative interest rate model has been adopted for over a year now by some European central banks, with Japan recently following suit. The model involves paying borrowers and penalizing savers in bid to increase lending, spur inflation and jump start the economy after other options have been exhausted. We explore how effective this model has been and its long term implications to the global economy.

This is a report by Wei Lynn Tang.