Let's Talk, Singapore

David Kuo, Co-founder, The Smart Investor gives an analysis of how some of the major markets fared in 2021 so far and June's biggest winners/losers on the Straits Times Index.

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Philip Vahn, senior managing editor, S&P Global Platts discusses whether OPEC+ will be motivated enough amid rising oil prices to ease production curbs further in August.

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Velocity Venture, a Singapore-based venture capital firm, aims to support the tourism and travel industry through its travel and hospitality fund. Nicholas Cocks, Managing Partner, Velocity Ventures, shares more about this and how the fund can help the hospitality and tourism sector. 

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Brock Silvers, CIO, Kaiyuan Capital, shares about Didi Chuxing, a Chinese ride-hailing company, on its present stock levels on the New York Stock Exchange and their plans from the money raised from the IPO. 

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Regional Round-up Ep 4: Indonesia's critical challenges as it enters hard Covid-19 lockdown

11:13 mins

Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments.

The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Elliott Danker about the following points:

1. Indonesia entering a hard lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19 (1:38)
2. Slow pace of Malaysia’s latest RM150 billion ((S$48.6 billion) package rollout (5:30)
3. How calls from Malaysia’s King to reconvene Parliament might be putting pressure on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin (8:00)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis & Aleemah Basirah

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Straits Times’ Regional Correspondent, Leslie Lopez shares the latest on Indonesia entering a hard lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19, the slow pace of Malaysia’s latest RM150 billion package rollout, and how calls from Malaysia’s King to reconvene Parliament might be putting pressure on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

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Manpreet Gill, Head of FICC Investment Strategy, Standard Chartered Private Bank, discusses where aviation stocks fit in his investment approach in the wider sector rotation narrative towards cyclicals.

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The Global Ransomware Study 2021 showed that 50% of organizations globally have been victims of ransomware attacks and 80% of those who paid a ransom still suffered a second attack. Eric Nagel, General Manager for APAC, Cybereason, shares about how ransomware attacks damage businesses and what other protocols businesses should take to combat these types of attacks. 

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Exchange rates can have a huge impact on the bottom line of your business. Get your questions answered by an OFX currency expert who can help you make informed decisions when moving money globally. In this edition, Mark Tan, Corporate Clients Manager, Singapore, OFX answers all your questions. 

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Lab-grown meat has been slowly gaining in popularity as the process avoids having to slaughter animals and cuts out the environmental footprint of the livestock sector. On Sustainable Singapore, Rhianne Lovell-Boland speaks to Viknish Krishnan-Kutty, Founder & CEO of Cellivate Technologies who shares more on how Singapore is leading the way to become the world’s clean-meat HQ for new cell technology, and their future plans to work on personalised meat peroduction.

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