Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses what we can expect from the markets this week, still being in the red after the Fed's hike and notable data to look out  for this week. 

In the media monitoring world, AI has been closely associated with assisting the platform in obtaining the right insights and information to help businesses in achieving their corporate goals. But is the industry relying too much on AI to do their job?  Andrew Nicholls, Managing Director & Co-Founder, CARMA Asia shares his views. 

To the possibility of the US banning bitcoin and crypto, to New York Attorney General Letitia James filing a sweeping lawsuit against former US President Donald Trump and three of his adult children.  Steve Okun, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates gives us an analysis of those headlines and more. 

In today's Breakfast Brief we discuss investors be bracing themselves for fresh volatility in the week ahead and the Euro and Sterling plunging to their 20-year and 37-year lows against a stronger US dollar. 

In today's Breakfast Brief we unpack the ripples unfolding in the markets as investors continue to digest another wave of monetary policy tightening sparked by the Fed.

Christopher Wong, South East Asia Portfolio Strategist, at Fidelity International assesses the impact of the Fed's latest 75bps rate hike on Asian markets.

Surfing is a rare hobby among Singaporeans because of the fact that the waves in Singapore do not exactly make it possible for one to surf here. But now one homegrown company The Kinetic Option (TKO) wants to revolutionise the surfing scene here  by making a splash with the company’s first product, the TKO 001, a zero-emission electric surfboard JC Lew, Co-Founder, The Kinetic Option shares more. 

DKSH Group is a Swiss holding company specialising in market expansion services currently stocking about 60 percent of the shelves of Singapore's supermarkets, supplying everything from cereal to body care products. But how has recent events like the Ukraine war and the ban on fresh chicken exports from Malaysia impacted their business?  Tan Ken Jek, Head, DKSH Singapore & Vice President, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, DKSH Group shares how the company's business model have evolve over the last few years and how it will change up even more to keep up to the changes in purchasing trends in a post Covid-19 world. 

An interesting development for the F&B industry. A restaurant in Singapore, Angie's Oyster Bar & Grill is imposing a $10 surcharge on the final dining bill if a child of a diner is deemed noisy and disruptive to other patrons of the establishment. CP Lam, Operations Director, Angie's Oyster Bar & Grill shares with us the reason why the restaurant decided to implement such a surcharge and the reactions they have been receiving from the general public with regards to this. 

Synopsis: Every fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents Asian views of the United States. The United States' Indo Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) has been welcomed in much of the region - though with some wariness over the geopolitical agenda given that China is by far, every South-east Asian country's largest trading partner. In this episode, Nirmal Ghosh hosts Dr. Pavida Pananond, Professor of International Business at Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, in Bangkok, alongside Tan Dawn Wei, The Straits Times' Beijing-based China bureau chief. Highlights (click/tap above): 3:30 South-east Asian concerns over trade and supply chain pillars; how countries view resilience  5:54 Not all countries look at “friend shoring” the same way the US does  6:49 China firmly entrenched in region but taking anything for granted and why it's not too concerned the US' IPEF will dislodge that  9:42 Chinese concern about US "friend shoring", decoupling and accelerating self-sufficiency 13:47 Why South-east Asia still depends on external markets; IPEF is a late entrant in the theatre  Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis & Teo Tong Kai Edited by: Eden Soh Follow our Asian Insider Podcast channel: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- 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 ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsider