Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

Jerome Raffaldini, Managing Director, Head of Investment Specialist at UBS O’Connor, discusses what investors should do as the latest FOMC minutes signalled for rate hikes of 50 bps in coming meetings, but also showed the bank's flexibility to recalibrate later in the year.

In this episode of Stocks to Watch, we are putting the spotlight on Singapore Airlines and Shell. From and overview of SIA's latest financial results and some caveats and potential headwinds the company might face to ab outlook for Shell in the near to medium term.  Cheryl Chan, Senior Vice President for Capital Markets, ADDX shares her outlook.

In today's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss Fed officials largely endorsing the need for 50-bp hikes over the next couple of meetings, China's economy faring worse in some respects than in 2020 and Elon Musk's plan to open a 24-hour Tesla restaurant for Hollywood.

More than two years into a Covid-19 world, as global lockdowns forced people to stay home, customers have increasingly migrated to online channels, resulting in a dramatic surge in digital transactions and e-commerce spending. But how has customer loyalty behaviour changed due to the pandemic? And can new technologies such as AI, AR and Virtual Reality contributeto these industry developments?  Aneesh Reddy, Founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies tells us more. 

Selena Ling, Chief economist, OCBC Bank breaks down the significance of Singapore's Q1 GDP at 3.7% yoy and the latest 2022 forecast kept at 3% to 5%, but now expected to come in at the lower half of the range.

In this week's episode, we discuss US President Joe Biden’s new trade initiative in the region, Malaysia’s decision to curb the export of chickens, and the firing of Vietnam’s general director of its main Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange.  Leslie Lopez, Regional Correspondent, The Straits Times gives us his analysis on those headlines and more.  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, we discuss Snap shares plunging as much as 31 percent and pushing other social media stocks down, China's latest move to shore up the economy and food protectionism on the rise. 

Francis Tan, Senior Investment Strategist, UOB Private Bank discusses why technology stocks are attractive now, and how investors should read into the patchy growth indicators from the US and China.