Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

In today's Breakfast Brief, we look at how markets are now giving back gains from earlier optimism around social media-fueled speculation that China would re-open by March 2023, after officials said they would "unswervingly" stick to the status quo with their Covid-zero strategy.

The US midterm elections are happening this week, so are the Republicans looking like they are in a better position at the moment?  John Donaldson, Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University gives us a preview of the US midterm elections and more. 

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Dr Piotr Kropelnicki, VP of Engineering and Founding Team Member, Meridian Innovation. To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging Enterprise Awards 2022, click here.

Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times' foreign editor Bhagyashree Garekar chats with ST’s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe. They talk about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises. In this episode, she chats with ST's China correspondent Aw Cheng Wei.  The idea of senior citizens looking for romance is no longer a stigma as older Chinese people become more affluent and seek out the better things in life. And Changpuhe Park is where they often find it. Highlights (click/tap above): 0:59 Covid-19 put a stop to a twice-weekly ritual in a public park next to the famous Tiananmen Square 3:07 The quiet but picturesque setting for the seniors romance  4:57 The idea of a complete family unit shapes expectations 6:59 Are the children ok with parents looking for romance? 9:30 Some entrepreneurial mainlanders are making money off loneliness 11:10 Is this a story where they live happily after? Read Aw Cheng Wei’s article here: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lonely-elderly-park-their-reservations-and-look-for-love Produced by: Bhagyashree Garekar (bhagya@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa’izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa’izah Sani Follow Letter From The Bureau Podcast every first Friday of the month on our Asian Insider Podcast channel here: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website:  https://www.moneyfm893.sg/ http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Bhagyashree Garekar’s articles: https://str.sg/whNo Read Aw Cheng Wei's articles: https://str.sg/wzce Read ST's Letters From The Bureau: https://str.sg/3xRd Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters --- Discover ST's special edition podcasts: Singapore's War On Covid: https://str.sg/wuJa The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia: https://str.sg/wuZ2 Stop Scams: https://str.sg/wuZB Invisible Asia: https://str.sg/wuZn --- Discover more ST podcast series: Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE Bookmark This!: https://str.sg/JWas Lunch With Sumiko: https://str.sg/J6hQ Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsider

Glenn Thum, Research Analyst, Phillip Securities Research discusses his outlook for interest rates and banks margins, how big is the risk of recession, and the impact it will have on the amount of buffer that banks set aside for bad loans, 

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Ding Eu-wen. Co-Founder & CEO, Lumos Labs.  To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging Enterprise Awards 2022, click here. 

This year SLINGSHOT 2022 award went to Peptobiotics, the startup from Singapore that stood out for its innovative synthetic biology alternative to livestock antibiotics. Competing in the Environment, Energy & Green Technologies challenge domain, Peptobiotics aims to leverage advances in both human medicine and synthetic biology to create an antibiotic-free agricultural system.  Jonathan Bester, Founder, Peptobiotics shares more. 

For the first time in Malaysia’s election history, 18-year-olds and above are eligible to vote for their GE 2022. So how will young voters change up the landscape in Malaysia’s political scene?  Shannon Teoh, Malaysia Bureau Chief, Straits Times discusses with us.  

In the Breakfast Brief today, we discuss US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo doubling down on the Biden administration’s controversial plan to ban US companies and citizens from helping China manufacture advanced semiconductor chips and what to expect from the soon to be announced US non-farm payroll for October. 

Todd Jablonski, Chief Investment Officer, Asset Allocation, Principal Asset Management, unpacks the latest FOMC policy decision to hike rates by 0.75% and what it means for the USD and other markets.