Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

Steve Brice, Chief Investment Officer of Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank discusses how markets will adjust to the rate liftoff, the risk of a wage-spiral, and the outlook for the US Dollar.

Hotel chain Hilton has opened its biggest hotel in Asia Pacific right here in Singapore. Located at the heart of Orchard Road, sitting atop Mandarin Gallery Mall, world famous hotel chain Hilton has opened its largest hotel to date in Asia Pacific. Cedric Nubul, General Manager, Hilton Singapore Orchard shares what visitors can expect from the newly renovated Hilton Singapore Orchard and how Hilton Singapore Orchard is poised to meet the demand of meetings and events in Singapore.

Facing the harsh realities of slow and unreliable payrolls and the lack of stability, lower pay, part-time workers have long slipped through the cracks and are often overlooked as a key pillar supporting our society. Hugen Liu, Co-Founder & Director, EL Connect shares his insights and perspectives of the part time job market in Singapore and some of the steps taken by EL Connect to ensure greater stability for both part-timers and hirers.

In this week's Stocks to Watch, we're joined by Thilan Wickramasinghe, Regional Head of Banks & Financials Research, Maybank Securities to discuss Singapore banks' strong comeback following their correction in February, prospects of local chip companies amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and other stocks to watch out for this week. 

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss the US stocks reactions coming out of after a hawkish FOMC statement initially sent risky assets lower, some of the key details from the Fed's policy meeting, and the strong surge in Chinese stocks after China’s officials vowed to stabilize the financial markets. 

Mitul Kotecha, Chief Emerging Markets Asia & Europe Strategist, TD Securities, discusses if the Ukraine war and a tailspin in commodity prices will make the Federal Reserve more cautious in its rate hike path this year as it gets ready to raise rates for the first time since 2018.

Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments in this weekly podcast. The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Elliot Danker and Bharati Jagdish. In this week's episode, they break down the latest of Barisan Nasional's major electoral win in Saturday’s Johor state polls, why the Philippines waited 6 weeks before confronting the Chinese ambassador over a navy ship’s ‘illegal intrusion’ and Vietnam’s unclear quarantine and testing rules that left international tourists confused.  Produced by: Leslie Lopez (ljlopez@sph.com.sg) & Money FM's Breakfast Huddle team Edited by: Money FM's Dan Koh & ST's Penelope Lee Follow Regional Round-up Podcast every Wednesday 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 Leslie Lopez's articles: https://str.sg/3xRX 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 The Big Story: https://str.sg/wuZe Lunch With Sumiko: https://str.sg/J6hQ Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts!

From conception to execution, the process of toy manufacturing is a highly complex feat. Homegrown toy collectibles recently announced that they have raised US$20 million in their Series A+ funding bringing its total funding to US$34.8 million, pushing the company’s valuation to over US$200 million. Bryan Tan, Chief Strategy Officer, Mighty Jaxx shares how will their latest funding rounds reinforce Mighty Jaxx's leadership in enabling future culture and how NFTs will contribute to Mighty Jaxx's work of building future culture. 

Shipping accounts for 90 percent of all global trade and 3 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. And without an acceleration in sustainability efforts, industry GHG emissions could grow by 50 percent from 2008 levels by 2050. Tan Thai Yong, Chief Executive Officer, PaxOcean & Chairperson, CSA Council shares the struggles faced by the maritime industry when moving towards sustainability and what CSA is doing to ensure Singapore’s maritime industry can go green seamlessly.

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss all about the renewed hopes of a revived Iran deal deflating oil prices, Japan and South Korea's search for alternatives to space launch services from Russia's Soyuz as Asia deals with the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Tesla's plan to raise prices by 3% to 5% in both the U.S. and China, and more.