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On What's Trending, China's Luckin Coffee is feeling lucky as it surpasses rival Starbucks in sales. On the other hand, Kellogg's CEO suggests eating cereal for dinner as a cost-cutting alternative, but faces backlash from netizens. 

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Later tonight, the Dow Jones Industrial will have a new look. Instead of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Amazon.com will be part of the index. This comes as Walmart conducts a 3-to-1 stock split, cutting its stock weighting in the index. So what does that mean for the Dow Jones index and Amazon.com? Why was Amazon selected? On Money in the Market, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Abhishek Vishnoi, Senior Reporter for Equities at Bloomberg, to find out more. 

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On What’s Trending, find out why the viral ke mu san dance is getting boycotted in Taiwan. And adding onto the viral list is the chocolate-covered strawberry video and understanding its sudden boom.

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Earnings results are still underway. This week, we saw Singapore Airlines post their results. And while it achieved a record operating and net profit for the first nine months, the carrier saw a mixed financial result for Q3. Investors were not pleased. Shares of SIA tumbled as much as 9.4 per cent during early trading after the announcement, despite hitting a six-month high the day prior. On Money in the Market, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Isaac Lim, Market Strategist of Moomoo Financial Singapore, to find out more about the results and whether SIA is a good stock to buy.

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Earnings season is well underway here in Singapore. UOB delivered robust profits in 2023 and increased its final dividend payout for the year, but investors weren’t pleased. Shares of UOB tumbled after the announcement. Singapore Airlines and Genting Singapore also missed earnings estimates. But iFast Corp was a brightspot with its Q4 net profit surging more than 900%. On The Afternoon Update, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Dan Chang C S, Trading Rep, Phillip Securities, to find out more about the latest earnings results as well as how the STI fared in the past week on Market View’s Market Wrap of the Week. 

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On The Afternoon Update, Hongbin Jeong is joined by Sean Cheong on the Financial Hit to discuss the recent deal Elon Musk’s X has recently announced with World Wrestling Entertainment that could change how fans watch sports. Like other recent sports media deals, X and WWE’s tie-up will be streamed. What will this mean for X? What about for Live television? On a separate note, a ticket to a sports game saw a 40,700 percent profit due to this one particular person and his shocking annoucement... 

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The crypto space ended 2023 on a high, and the stellar rally has continued into this year, with Bitcoin more than tripling to $52,000 since November 2022. Investors have returned to the market in recent weeks, pushing the asset market capitalization above $1 trillion for the first time since 2021. So it’s all high and boom for Bitcoin and the crypto market in the year ahead? On Money in the Market, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Lasanka Perera, CEO, Independent Reserve Singapore, to find out more. 

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On What’s Trending, an auction is being held for Elton John’s personal items at Christie’s New York. Another artist up our radar, Beyoncé, who has become the first Black woman to top Billboard's country music chart. And lastly, Starbucks China released their Lunar New Year menu, giving people ‘pig’ reactions.

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The Malaysian ringgit has continued its slide, with most recently hitting its lowest level since 1998. The recent weakness in the ringgit was partly due to the soft economic expansion reported last week, whereby annual gross domestic product growth for 2023 missed the official forecast, also driven by China’s sluggish economy hurting exports in the country. But some say it is doubtful that it will breach its record low, hit back in 1998. On Money in the Market, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Lim Jun Kit, Strategist, Phillip Nova, to find out more about the outlook of the ringgit. 

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The escalation of attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea is making itself felt not only in transport and logistics, but also in consumer goods supply chains - including sporting goods and luxury brands. In fact, this earnings season, more companies have highlighted the Red Sea flashpoint as a watch factor into the months ahead. So which sectors should investors watch out for? And how concerned should we be? Are we near a systemic Covid 2.0 style supply chain disruption? On Money in the Market, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Low Pei Han, Head of Equity Research, Bank of Singapore, to find out more.

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