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Synopsis
A fast moving and topical business and finance show bringing you breaking business and economic news and financial market updates. Presented by former CEO and investment bank global trading head Peter Lewis, with over 30 years' industry experience. Join Peter and his expert guests for analysis and discussion on the day's top business stories live from 8 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. every weekday morning on RTHK Radio 3. We have a podcast to download after the show and you can also listen through the RTHK Radio 3 website live or later in the day. We welcome your questions, comments and feedback to read out in the show. You can email us at moneytalk@rthk.hk, post on our Facebook page "Money Talk on RTHK Radio 3 " or find us on twitter "MoneytalkR3") .
Episodes
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Business and Market Discussion
15/06/2022 Duration: 32minGlobal stocks have slipped further into bear market territory, although Chinese stocks outperformed, as a dumping of risky financial assets moved into a third day. The FTSE All World Index of global stocks fell 0.7% Tuesday, leaving it down 22% from i...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
14/06/2022 Duration: 32minFears over surging US inflation and an aggressive response from the Fed have roiled global financial markets. Investors around the world fled risky assets including stocks, bonds and cryptocurrencies. Commodities also sank on slowing global growth fea...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
13/06/2022 Duration: 32minRising energy and food costs pushed US inflation to a 40-year high in May. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.6% year-on-year last month, the fastest pace since December 1981. When excluding food and energy, the core CPI rose 6% y/y. The rise in in...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from India
10/06/2022 Duration: 32minThe European Central Bank has said it will raise interest rates next month for the first time in 11 years. At its governing council meeting on Thursday, it confirmed that its key deposit rate will rise 25bps from a record low of minus 0.5%, as economi...
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Business and Market Discussion / Algo Challenge
09/06/2022 Duration: 32minThe OECD said yesterday that the world economy will pay a “hefty price” for the war in Ukraine including weaker growth, stronger inflation and potentially long-lasting damage to supply chains. It said governments must take steps to avert a global food...
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Business and Market Discussion
08/06/2022 Duration: 32minThe Reserve Bank of Australia has raised interest rates by a greater than expected 50bps to 0.85%. Economists had been expecting a 35bps hike. It is the first time in 12 years that the Australian central bank has implemented back-to-back rate increase...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
07/06/2022 Duration: 32minActivity in China’s private services continued to contract in May but at a slower pace. The China's Caixin Services PMI registered a reading of 41.4 in May, rebounding from a 26-month low of 36.2 in the previous month but missing economists’ forecasts...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
06/06/2022 Duration: 32minThe US Labor Department's closely watched jobs report, released on Friday, showed non-farm payrolls rose by 390,000 jobs in May, below the previous month’s total of 436,000 but exceeding expectations of 325,000. It was the slowest job growth since Apr...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
02/06/2022 Duration: 32minThe city of Shanghai has begun to ease a two-month city wide lockdown. About 22.5 million residents, or 90% of Shanghai’s population, living in low-risk “precautionary zones”, were allowed to return to work from yesterday. All of the city’s 2.67 milli...
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Business and Market Discussion
01/06/2022 Duration: 31minThe city of Shanghai began from midnight last night to ease a two-month city wide lockdown. About 22.5 million people, or 90% of Shanghai’s population of 25 million residents, are living in low-risk “precautionary zones” that have been infection-free ...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
31/05/2022 Duration: 31minShanghai continues to see a drop in Covid-19 infections as the city moves towards ending a two-month city wide lockdown tomorrow that aims to restore business activity, production and daily livelihoods to full normality by the end of June, in a gradua...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
30/05/2022 Duration: 32minFinancial Secretary, Paul Chan, warned yesterday that Hong Kong must be prepared for geopolitical risks. He said that the world was “undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and the geopolitical situation continues to be tense. As a fully open int...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from India
26/05/2022 Duration: 31minThe minutes of the Federal Reserve’s May meeting show policymakers debating the need for more rate hikes than currently anticipated. Fed officials discussed making multiple 50bps rate increases at the next several meetings to tackle surging inflation....
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Business and Market Discussion
25/05/2022 Duration: 32minChina’s State Council has announced 33 new measures to try and boost economic growth and support businesses in the face of coronavirus lockdowns across the country. The plan includes value-added tax rebates for more industries, aid to companies that h...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
24/05/2022 Duration: 32minUS President Joe Biden continued Monday his first Asian tour since becoming president that has taken him to South Korea and Japan. Stability on the Taiwan Strait was among the regional topics discussed by President Biden and Japan PM Fumio Kishida dur...
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Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
23/05/2022 Duration: 32minChina has cut a key lending rate by the most on record China’s to boost the slumping economy. The five-year loan prime rate, which is linked to household mortgage rates, was cut from 4.6% to 4.45%, the People’s Bank of China said on Friday. It is the ...
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Business and Market Discussion / HBSC break up
20/05/2022 Duration: 32minHong Kong’s jobless rate rose to a 10-month high of 5.4% in the February to April period, up from 5% in the January-to-March period. The rolling three month period saw unemployment increase 0.4 percentage points, with about 206,100 people out of work....
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Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
19/05/2022 Duration: 32minChina’s new home prices dropped for the eighth consecutive month in April. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday that among the 70 major Chinese cities, 47 cities saw new home prices decline m/m in April, compared to 38 in March, whil...
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Business and Market Discussion
18/05/2022 Duration: 31minFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Tuesday that the US central bank wants to see economic growth slowing and "clear" evidence of inflation decelerating before ending monetary tightening. He said if we don't see that, then we'll have to consi...