Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss Elon Musk clinching the deal to buy Twitter for US$44 billion cash and the reactions to the news. 

Modern investing and online trading is heavily influenced by social media. In this day and age, what are new perspectives and issues surrounding Big Tech and Meme stocks? How do we cope with these changes.   The Breakfast Huddle speaks to Luke Lim, Managing Director, PhillipCapital, about this.

There are many unanswered questions surrounding China. How serious will the impacts of the potential lockdown of Beijing be? How will their security cooperation pact with The Solomon Islands affect international relations? Lastly, how will China fare in its attempts to help Sri Lanka through their economic crisis? To give us an analysis of those headlines we have on the line Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times 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/

Singapore will be the first major economy in Asia to remove all restrictions for fully vaccinated travelers entering. What will that do for Singapore's economic growth outlook? Moreover what effect has the Russo-Ukrainian conflict had on the global supply chains. Serge Besanger, Chief Investment Officer, International Business Capital talks to us more about these topics.

In this morning's TheBreakfast Brief we discuss how Covid-19 measures are slowly being lifted and as with every step closer to normalcy, talk about travel, vaccination and safety increase.

From Biden’s administration looking to secure more Covid-19 funds for the country, to the country sending more aid to Ukraine, we speak to Nirmal Ghosh, US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times to give us an analysis of 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/

Communication, and data management are vital in a company to mitigate the devastating effects of crises. Organizations can get roped into larger, geopolitical and social issues, such as how Chelsea Football Club is stuck in a state of uncertainty as its owner faces heavy sanctions. Andrew Nicholls, Managing Director & Co-Founder, CARMA Asia speaks to us about howbrands and businesses can handle crisis management right in this digital era.

The main revenue stream for streaming services comes from paid subscribers like you and me. With the recent news surrounding Netflix's plan to introduce advertisements to their platform, what does this change indicate about the future of streaming as a whole? Marianne Lee, Chief of Content Acquisition and Development, Viu talks to us more about this.

Jeff Halley, Senior Market Analyst, OANDA discusses the implications of a few consecutive 50 basis point hikes for investors, as well as how Chinese markets will continue to get rattled as Beijing shows no signs of letting up on its COVID-zero strategy.