BFM :: Today's BizTalk

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

00:09 - Government tweaks promise to abolish tolls.

04:51 - January deflation only temporary says economists.

07:46 - Foreign workers to have reduced extension levy fees from March onwards.

With 10 MPs leaving their respective parties to take a stance against Brexit, UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans seems to be in shambles. We speak to Simon Baptist of The Economist Intelligence Unit to discuss what led to this situation and what is next for the UK.

Apple seems to be gearing up for life after the iPhone based on recent leadership changes as Apple aims to reduce its reliance on iPhone for its revenue.

Apple has also trimmed 200 staffers from its autonomous-vehicle project, and redirecting much of their resources in its services business into efforts around Hollywood programming.

We speak to Daniel Ives, Managing Director of Equity Research from Wedbush Securities on the leadership shake-up in Apple's future and whether they can catch up in the service business.

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We discuss with Sulaiman his outlook on the property sector. The company launched their new property market research report and they foresee more stagnation this year, but they’re hoping for improvements to the market with the introduction of the new housing policy and alternative financing.

Are things bottoming out in the industry?

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The Morning Run crew gives you their take on ECRL, seeing that Malaysia may be making progress in talks with China to revive the project. 

China is consolidating its position as a tech powerhouse to rival the US with the creation of the " The Greater Bay Area" which promises to herald a new era of opening up. With trillions of dollars in GDP value, this might just be a tad more successful than Malaysia's MSC. Meanwhile, India sells an airline for a penny.

The Morning Run crew brings you today's business headlines: 

00:09 - There has been a lot of talk about EPF's recent dividend rates. We take a look into how EPF has managed to give out these rates.

08:26 - China's Ambassador to Malaysia has floated the idea of issuing Panda bonds to Malaysia to help aid our financial situation.

11:45 - It looks like Khazanah is going down a divestment route. What is Khazanah's role moving forward? We speak to P. Gunasegaran to get an insight into this.

Singapore unveiled its Budget 2019 outlining a strategic plan to "to build a strong, united Singapore”. We speak to Selena to get her analysis on it.

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

00:08 - The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has declared a dividend rate of 6.15% for conventional savings and 5.9% percent for shariah savings.

04:47 - We discuss the new mandate Khazanah managing director Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan has for the sovereign fund which he had shared with The Edge in an interview.

08:35 - Singapore is set to announce their Budget today and we look into what it could entail.

The morning crew brings today's business headlines:

03:40 - Bank Negara expects economy to grow

08:45 - Khazanah unveiling plan to deliver more cash