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Business travellers in Asia Pacific have been itching to resume their globetrotting ways, with over nine in 10 (95 percent) noting their intention to resume travel in the next 12 months. While the reopening of borders for business travelling is a huge step for the global economy, it also raises the question, is business travel still necessary? Wiley Zhang, Head of Video Collaboration, Asia Pacific and Japan, Logitech shares how video conferencing has helped bridge the gap when travel could not take place and if video conferencing will ever take over business travel. 

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Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Economic Development Board (EDB) has still met its medium- to long-term targets last year by securing S$11.8 billion worth of investments for Singapore. This is a 37 percent drop from EDB’s 2020 investment commitment. Jillian Lim, Executive Vice President, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) shares how EDB manages to keep the investment commitments goals on track amid the continuing uncertainty and how our strong fundamentals and reputation as a trusted, stable and neutral location allowed us to capture quality investments in 2021?

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In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss why Fed Chair Jerome Powell thinks there’s a lot of room to raise interest rates down the road, how markets are reacting to Powell's comments signaling that the central bank is ready to raise interest rates at its next meeting in March, what Apple's earnings preview looks like, and more.

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We’re back in the earnings season and if there’s one stock we can’t afford to miss.. It's Elon Musk’s EV giant! Despite stronger-than-expected Q4 results, Tesla's shares plunged more than 5% after the automaker warned supply chain issues could persist throughout 2022. Jeremy Chia, Analyst, Compounder Fund shares some of the highlights coming out of Tesla's earnings call and if they will continue to dominate in this increasingly competitive EV space. 

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Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments in this weekly podcast.

The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Elliot Danker and Bharati Jagdish.

Highlights (click/tap above):

00:49 Singapore and Indonesia ties took a major step after the conclusion of agreements on 3 long standing bilateral issues

07:13 Malaysia government announces that they will not bring back movement control order

08:57 Thailand and Saudi Arabia finally hold first high-level talks after three decades

Produced by: Leslie Lopez ([email protected]), The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Hadyu Rahim

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Abhilash Narayan, Senior Investment Strategist, Standard Chartered Private Bank, discusses the latest round of market jitters against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions in Ukraine, potentially more hawkish signals from the FOMC, and the outlook for more speculative assets like cryptocurrencies.

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