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Money Talk episodes

May 04, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from the mainland
The US economy shrank by its fastest rate since the 2008 financial crisis, contracting at a 4.8% annualised rate. More than 3.8 million Americans filed new unemployment benefit claims last week, bringing the six-week total since the start of the Cov...
32 min
April 29, 2020 Business and Market Discussion
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said yesterday that the government will reopen government offices and some public facilities and plans to get civil servants back to the office in a staggered manner from next week. The restriction on mainland arriv...
32 min
April 28, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
The Bank of Japan has increased its monetary stimulus in response to the Covid-19 pandemic saying it will buy an unlimited amount of government bonds and ramp up its purchases of corporate bonds. The BoJ forecast that Japan’s economy would shrink betwe...
32 min
April 27, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from the mainland
The worldwide death toll from Covid-19 has passed 200,000 with the virus infecting almost 3 million people globally. However, the global death toll has declined for the fourth straight day and for the third time in a week, no new coronavirus cases w...
32 min
April 24, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from Australia
The latest jobless data from the US shows 4.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. That brings the total unemployment claims to a record 26.4 million over the past five weeks, amounting to more than 15% of the US workforce.
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32 min
April 23, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
International oil prices staged a dramatic rebound from two-decade lows after President Trump ordered US warships to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian vessels if they posed a threat. Brent crude oil which was down as much as 17% recovered losses to set...
32 min
April 22, 2020 Business and Market Discussion
The turmoil in the oil markets has continued for another day with the price of Brent crude oil, the international benchmark falling 24% to an 18-year low, below $20 a barrel. The West Texas contract for June delivery has nearly halved a day after the M...
32 min
April 21, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
The price of US crude oil has turned negative for the first time in history. The West Texas Intermediate futures contract for May delivery, which expires today, plunged 300% to trade at minus $40.31 a barrel at one stage, meaning producers are payi...
32 min
April 20, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from the mainland
China’s economy shrank by a worse than expected 6.8% year-on -year in the first quarter due to disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdowns, its first decline in GDP since 1976. The huge decline wipes out the 6% expansion in China’s economy recorde...
32 min
April 17, 2020 Business and Market Discussion / View from Australia
Another 5.2 million Americans registered for unemployment benefits last week as businesses laid off staff amid the coronavirus lockdown. So far, 22 million people have lost their jobs over the past month, wiping out nearly all of the employment gains m...
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.