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Money Talk episodes

June 14, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
Fears over surging US inflation and an aggressive response from the Fed have roiled global financial markets. Investors around the world fled risky assets including stocks, bonds and cryptocurrencies. Commodities also sank on slowing global growth fea...
32 min
June 13, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
Rising energy and food costs pushed US inflation to a 40-year high in May. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.6% year-on-year last month, the fastest pace since December 1981. When excluding food and energy, the core CPI rose 6% y/y. The rise in in...
32 min
June 10, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
The European Central Bank has said it will raise interest rates next month for the first time in 11 years. At its governing council meeting on Thursday, it confirmed that its key deposit rate will rise 25bps from a record low of minus 0.5%, as economi...
32 min
June 09, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / Algo Challenge
The OECD said yesterday that the world economy will pay a “hefty price” for the war in Ukraine including weaker growth, stronger inflation and potentially long-lasting damage to supply chains. It said governments must take steps to avert a global food...
32 min
June 08, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised interest rates by a greater than expected 50bps to 0.85%. Economists had been expecting a 35bps hike. It is the first time in 12 years that the Australian central bank has implemented back-to-back rate increase...
32 min
June 07, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
Activity in China’s private services continued to contract in May but at a slower pace. The China's Caixin Services PMI registered a reading of 41.4 in May, rebounding from a 26-month low of 36.2 in the previous month but missing economists’ forecasts...
32 min
June 06, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
The US Labor Department's closely watched jobs report, released on Friday, showed non-farm payrolls rose by 390,000 jobs in May, below the previous month’s total of 436,000 but exceeding expectations of 325,000. It was the slowest job growth since Apr...
32 min
June 02, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
The city of Shanghai has begun to ease a two-month city wide lockdown. About 22.5 million residents, or 90% of Shanghai’s population, living in low-risk “precautionary zones”, were allowed to return to work from yesterday. All of the city’s 2.67 milli...
32 min
June 01, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
The city of Shanghai began from midnight last night to ease a two-month city wide lockdown. About 22.5 million people, or 90% of Shanghai’s population of 25 million residents, are living in low-risk “precautionary zones” that have been infection-free ...
32 min
May 31, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
Shanghai continues to see a drop in Covid-19 infections as the city moves towards ending a two-month city wide lockdown tomorrow that aims to restore business activity, production and daily livelihoods to full normality by the end of June, in a gradua...
32 min

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A fast moving and topical business and finance show bringing you breaking business and economic news and financial market updates. Join our team and their expert guests for analysis and discussion on the day's top business stories live every weekday morning 8.05am to 9am (HKT) on RTHK Radio 3.