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Coming up in the Best of Prime Time, Timothy Go and JP Ong spoke to Joanna Ossinger, Markets Editor, Bloomberg about the latest on cryptocurrency trends, from Squid Game, to Ether and Shiba Inu.

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In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Workers’ Party MP Raeesah Khan has admitted to lying in Parliament about details of a sexual assault case that she alleged was mishandled by the police.

Leader of the House Indranee Rajah has raised an official complaint against her for breaching Parliamentary privilege, and asked for the matter to be referred to the Committee of Privileges.

Multimedia Journalist Hairianto Diman spoke to Journalist Rei Kurohi about the role of the committee and the possible outcomes from the investigation.

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Next week, the Federal Reserve makes its next policy decision, with many expecting the FOMC to lay out plans to taper its massive bond buying program. Peter Chia, Senior FX Strategist for UOB, joined us on Forex Fridays to talk about how the Fed's next actions may shape the USD and the broader FX space, and also look at policy decisions from the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank in the last days of October.

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Gold lost some of its sparkle in the third quarter -  demand  fell 7%  on year.

The World Gold Council says this drop was almost exclusively driven by ETFs – which swung from very large inflows in Q3 2020 to modest outflows this year.

Jewellery, technology and bar and coin were significantly higher than in 2020.

Prime Time's Rachel Kelly and Timothy Go find out more from Andrew Naylor, Regional CEO of World Gold Council.

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In The Straits Times' The Big Story, Singapore confirmed its first case of the Covid-19 Delta Plus variant yesterday, in an imported case detected on Tuesday.

Assistant video editor Olivia Quay spoke to Dr. Leong Hoe Nam, an infectious diseases physician from the Rophi Clinic to find out why this subvariant is expected to be similar - in transmissibility and severity of illness - to the Delta variant that is ravaging the world.

Dr. Leong also outlines the conditions for a variant to be classified by the World Health Organization as a variant of concern.

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