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April 28, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to strengthen infrastructure construction and build a modern network of infrastructure. He said investments would be brought forward for infrastructure projects that are beneficial to industrial growth and saf...
32 min
April 27, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
The European Union and the UK government have warned Elon Musk that he must protect Twitter users from harmful content after the US$44bn deal to buy the social media giant is completed. Thierry Breton, commissioner for the internal market at the EU ex...
32 min
April 26, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
The board of Twitter has agreed to a US$44bn takeover offer from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. He made the unsolicited bid to take the company private less than two weeks ago, and said Twitter had "tremendous potential" that he would unlock. The...
32 min
April 25, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
US stocks plunged on Friday as investors weighed up the likelihood of a more aggressive pace of monetary tightening from the Fed and the European Central Bank. Last week, Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, signalled that the US central bank is prepared to r...
32 min
April 22, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / Surge in global food prices
Hong Kong took a step towards normality yesterday as restrictions on some businesses were eased as the city’s Omicron outbreak waned. Gyms, sports facilities, beauty parlours, cinemas and religious premises were allowed to reopen, having been forced to...
32 min
April 21, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from South Korea
Chinese banks kept their benchmark lending rates unchanged in April, for the third consecutive month, despite expectations that they would cut rates to stimulate growth in the economy. The one-Year Loan Prime Rate remained at 3.7%, while the five-Yea...
32 min
April 20, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
The International Monetary Fund has cut its global growth forecast to 3.6%, down 0.8 percentage points since the fund’s January projections and 1.3 percentage points lower compared with six months ago. That compares to growth of 6.1% estimated for 2021...
32 min
April 19, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
China’s first quarter GDP beat expectations, growing 4.8% year-on-year. That topped expectations of a 4.4% increase from a year ago, and an improvement on the 4.0% annualised growth seen in the final quarter of 2021. However, retail sales in March fell...
32 min
April 14, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned of consequences for China if it undermines Russia sanctions. Speaking to the Atlantic Council yesterday, she singled out China and other countries who are “sitting on the fence, perhaps seeing an opportuni...
32 min
April 13, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
Surging energy and food prices in the United States have sent inflation to a 40-year high. Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, the fastest annual gain since December 1981. The monthly rise was 1.2%, the fastest jump since September 2005 and a sharp acc...
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.