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Money Talk episodes

January 25, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
Stocks around the world have tumbled, before US shares staged a huge afternoon rebound, as the Fed starts its first monetary policy meeting of the year later today and is widely expected to announce that it will bring an end to its stimulus policies t...
32 min
January 24, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
Global equities suffered their worst week in over a year last week as the selloff in technology stocks spilled over into other sectors. Other risk assets were also impacted including high yield bonds and cryptocurrencies. The FTSE All-World index of d...
32 min
January 21, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View From India
The People’s Bank of China has cut the one-year loan prime rate by 10bps from 3.8% to 3.7%. It’s the second reduction in a month. In December, the PBOC cut the one-year loan prime rate for the first time since April 2020. The five-year loan prime rate...
32 min
January 20, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
The People’s Bank of China has pledged to use more monetary policy tools to avoid a collapse in credit and to stimulate the economy. The PBOC Deputy Governor said the Chinese central bank will stabilise growth, front-load actions and make pre-emptive ...
32 min
January 19, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
China’s property sector shrank at a faster pace in the final three months of last year. The National Bureau of Statistics released a supplement report on China’s GDP on Tuesday which showed output in the real-estate sector shrank by an annualised 2.9%...
32 min
January 18, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
Economic growth on the mainland slowed in the fourth quarter of 2021 but by not as much as economists were expecting. GDP expanded 4% from a year ago, slowing from 4.9% in the third quarter. It was the weakest growth rate in a year-and-a-half. For the...
32 min
January 17, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday that the current anti-pandemic restrictions in place will be extended for another two weeks to February 3, the third day of the Chinese New Year. Meanwhile, the CE said businesses and individuals affected...
32 min
January 14, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
Wholesale prices in the US increased at a record pace in 2021, adding further pressure to the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. The producer price index, which tracks prices that businesses receive for their goods and services, was up 9.7% y/y ...
32 min
January 13, 2022 Business and Market Discussion / ESG investing criteria
Inflation in the US has increased to 7% for the first time since 1982, piling pressure on the Fed to raise interest rates. The Consumer Price Index increased 7% year-on-year, up from 6.8% in November. Month-on-month price gains moderated to 0.5% betwe...
32 min
January 12, 2022 Business and Market Discussion
Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, said yesterday that high inflation is a “severe threat” to the US jobs recovery. He told the Senate Banking Committee at his confirmation hearing that the economy no longer “needs or wants” the “highly accommod...
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.