Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

On today's The Breakfast Brief, professional investors are scrambling to preempt losing out due to the soon-to-be released Federal Reserve rate hikes. Moreover, tech companies, such as Shopee, BlockFi and Tesla, may have been too optimistic about growth productions and now seem to be cutting jobs to make up for it. 

Computer hackers are unauthorised users who break into computer systems in order to steal, change or destroy information, often by installing dangerous malware without your knowledge or consent.  But what if we have a way to go around with handling these ‘bad hackers’, by getting the good hackers into the picture?  Benjamin Harris, CEO & Founder, watchTowr shares his insights with us.

Helping startups to garner support from founders, operators and VCs requires them to have good cash management and flexibility when it comes to dilution. ESOP is an employee benefit plan that gives workers ownership interest in the company in the form of stock. The website dothemath.tech, helps startups to navigate these schemes and provides tools to them, making growth and expansion easier. Vardhan Kapoor, Head of Region APAC, Remitly tells us more about this.

Suresh Tantia, Senior Investment Strategist, Credit Suisse talks about reports that the FOMC is mulling to frontload rate hikes even more with a 75 basis point hike in the June meeting, the prospects of a looming recession, and how investors should position themselves against this backdrop.

An increase in cases makes China tighten up restrictions again, but how sustainable are these "flash lockdowns"? On the international front, despite the strong words directed toward the US during Minister Wei's speech during the Shangri-La Dialogue, his meeting with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the summit could indicate that China does not want their relationship with the US to veer into conflict. Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times gives an analysis of it all.  Follow The Straits Times' Asian Insider Podcast channel - co-produced with Money FM 89.3 - like us and rate us: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/Ju4h  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Asian Insider newsletter.   Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/JoVb SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/

In today's The Breakfast Brief, markets are selling off across the world and whether they will recover is uncertain. A 75 basis point hike by the Fed is being forecasted by many banks and has strengthened the US dollar. This means, however, that other currencies are weakening. This begs the question, is the fed is raising rates too high too fast?

VCs generally look for companies that either create brand new solutions, or have unique approaches to pursuing pre-existing ideas. In investing in these start ups, not only the idea, but the ability to grow based on the geopolitical and economic environment surrounding it is also a primary factor that must be considered. Anna Irmina “Minette” B. Navarrete, Co-Founder & President, Kickstart Ventures tells us more about the footprint that VCs have in Southeast-Asia and how they determine the promise of startups before investing.

Dong Chen, Head of Asia Macroeconomic Research at Pictet Wealth Management discusses the risk of further growth projection cuts from another round of lockdowns in Shanghai as mass testing resumes, and how the Fed is likely to react to last Friday's hotter than expected May US CPI reading of 8.6%.