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Thomas Taw, Head of APAC iShares Investment Strategy, BlackRock, discusses how investors should be positioned following the IMF's third cut to its global growth outlook and warning that the world economy is on the brink of a recession, and the implications of a strong US dollar on the earnings season. 

Just as the world starts to get back on its feet post-pandemic, businesses have to grapple with record-setting inflation, supply chain disruptions, a volatile stock market and even geopolitical conflict. So what steps should a company take when it comes to strategic planning and forecasting?  Bhavik Vashi, Area Vice President, Asia, Anaplan shares with us on companies can do so. 

5G is revolutionising the way how smart factories operate in the future, supporting high-speed manufacturing environments with a far greater degree of flexibility and ten times lower latency.  So how can the proper use of 5G framework help industries in years to come?  Vinay Ravuri, CEO, EdgeQ shares with us more on the adoption of 5G infrastructure in businesses 

Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in China in this weekly podcast. Dr Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at Singapore Institute of International Affairs, stands in for The Straits Times' China bureau chief Tan Dawn Wei who is on leave, and he chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliott Danker. In this week's China Perspective the team discusses China's reaction to Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan to a new CEO for China Evergrande Group and the expectant change in dynamics within the company. Plus China fining ride-hailing giant Didi 8.026 billion yuan, is the tech crackdown in the country not over just yet?  Produced by: Tan Dawn Wei (dawntan@sph.com.sg) & Money FM's Breakfast Huddle team Edited by: Nadhirah Kamarudin Follow China Perspective Podcast every Tuesday on our Asian Insider Podcast channel: 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/ Websites: https://www.moneyfm893.sg/ http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Tan Dawn Wei's articles: https://str.sg/3xR7 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 SG Extra: https://str.sg/wukR #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!

In today's Breakfast Brief, we discuss how Walmart's profit warning sets up the rest of the week for earnings expectation as well as Shenzhen's move to order 100 big firms to move to closed-loop manufacturing for seven days.  

Eddy Loh, Chief Investment Officer, Maybank Group Wealth Management, discusses the main takeaways of the earnings season so far with Walmart the latest to flag more pressure on margins, as well as how investors should read Singapore's latest inflation reading at 14 year highs in June.

DoubleVerify recently announced that it is rolling out a first-of-its-kind tool to measure advertisers’ carbon footprint. Since digital advertising is a deceptively carbon intensive space, how can one use such tools to minimise carbon footprint when planning a digital advertising campaign?  Jordan Khoo, APAC Managing Director, DoubleVerify tells us about their latest innovation and more. 

With digital transformation happening in almost every economic sector, banks would also need to start venturing into the crypto currency sphere and Web 3.0 to stay relevant and survive in the long-term.  So how should banks upgrade their infrastructure to maintain their presence in the digital economy? Nigel Vaz, CEO, Publicis Sapient shares on how banks can upgrade their Web 3.0 infrastructure and more. 

In today's Breakfast Brief, we unpack what investors need to keep on their radar this week, including the FOMC policy meeting, earnings including from the likes of Apple and Alphabet, an IMF World Economic Outlook update as well as a Japan-U.S. economic dialogue.