25 November 2024
Bigger Picture: Look ahead to the week

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7 October 2024
Bigger Picture: Investor sentiment buoyed by strong jobs data
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, discusses how markets are set up for the week after a stronger than expected NFP reading for September, and also previews the US earnings season to kick off on Friday with banks leading the charge.
Produced/Presented: Ryan Huang

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19 August 2024
Bigger Picture: Jackson Hole summit preview
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses what investors should expect from the Jackson Hole Summit and other central bank actions this week.
Produced/Presented: Ryan Huang

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29 July 2024
Bigger Picture: Blockbuster week for central banks, potentially hawkish FOMC
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses what to look out for in the FOMC's July meeting, why the Bank of Japan might hike, as well as encouraging signs from China's latest round of industrial profits data.
Produced/Presented: Ryan Huang

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24 June 2024
Bigger Picture: Australia inflation print could prompt rate hike
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses the major events for investors to watch out for including Australia's next inflation print that could prompt the RBA to hike rates, bucking the trend in the region.
Produced/Presented: Ryan Huang

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3 June 2024
Bigger Picture: Eyeing US NFP, China trade, India elections
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses how markets are shaping up for the week with the focus on US non-farm payrolls, China trade data, as well as the results of India's elections.
Produced/Presented: Ryan Huang

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20 May 2024
Bigger Picture: Dow hits 40k, investors wait for next catalyst
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, discusses what lies ahead for investors in the coming week, including data points to watch and the latest reactions to China's property sector support package.
Produced/Presented: Ryan Huang

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29 April 2024
Bigger Picture: What's the Fed's latest stance on interest rates?
Inflation data continues to climb at a rate still considerably higher than the Federal Reserve’s 2% annual goal.
With a strong consumption spending, and inflation data, what’s the Fed stance on interest rates, and what’s the outlook of the US economy?
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, unpacks all this with Willie Keng.
Produced and presented by Willie Keng

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15 April 2024
Bigger Picture: Market implications of Iran-Israel tensions
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting joins Sean Cheong to share what we need to know to start the week and the implications of Iran's attack on Israel over the past weekend.
Presented by Sean Cheong
Edited by Emaad Akhtar

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26 February 2024
Bigger Picture: Record highs are being set across markets. Will the momentum continue?
Record numbers are being set across different indexes in the US and in Japan this week. But what could impact this momentum in either direction?
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, joins us with the details and what we need to know front and centre for this week ahead.

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5 February 2024
Bigger Picture: What hotter-than-expected jobs data mean for markets
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting outlines the look ahead to the week where central bank decisions from Australia and India are in focus. He also talks about how investors will be factoring in the hotter than expected US jobs data from last Friday.
Presented: Sean Cheong

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22 January 2024
Bigger Picture: Bank of Japan in focus in week ahead for investors
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, discusses the S&P 500's record high closing on Friday and factors leading to the market's rally; key takeaways from the World Economic Forum in Davos on U.S. recession fears and AI; and expectations ahead of the BOJ's upcoming monetary policy meeting this week.
Presented by Ryan Huang
Podcast edited by Emaad Akhtar (eakhtar@sph.com.sg)

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4 December 2023
Bigger Picture: What's behind the S&P 500's closing high for 2023?
Matt Taylor, Senior Consultant, FTI Consulting weighs in on the S&P 500's closing high for 2023 last week and what's behind the market's optimism; expectations for key data due out of the US this week (non-farm payrolls) as well as China trade data and the RBA's interest rate decision; and the latest developments from the COP28 Summit in Dubai.
Presented by Ryan Huang
This podcast is produced and edited by Emaad Akhtar (eakhtar@sph.com.sg)

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30 October 2023
Bigger Picture: What can we expect from the BOJ's monetary policy meeting this week?
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, weighs in on a tough last week for markets with the three key major indices down sharply; a lookahead to the Bank of Japan's monetary policy meeting, China PMI data and retail sales numbers in Singapore this week; and how oil prices are faring against the backdrop of tensions in the Middle East.
Presented by Ryan Huang
Podcast edited by Emaad Akhtar (eakhtar@sph.com.sg)

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9 October 2023
Bigger Picture: How will oil markets fare in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East?
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, weighs in on the impact recent strong US nonfarm payroll numbers may have on the Fed's upcoming interest rate decisions; whether US Treasury yields may continue to rise this week; the outlook for oil prices against the backdrop of escalating tensions in the Middle East; and what we can expect from Singapore's third-quarter GDP numbers.
Presented by Emaad Akhtar
Podcast edited by Emaad Akhtar (eakhtar@sph.com.sg)

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28 August 2023
Bigger Picture: China, India growth data on tap, as investors digest Jackson Hole comments
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses what the hawkish commentary from Fed Chair Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole means for investors, and what to look out for in the next wave of economic data from China and India.

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31 July 2023
Bigger Picture: AUD in focus ahead of expectations of China stimulus
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting shares how the Reserve Bank of Australia is likely to consider in its August rate decision on Tuesday, as well as the urgency from Chinese policymakers to roll out measures to shore up consumer spending.

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3 July 2023
Bigger Picture: RBA and Aussie dollar in focus this week
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses how the Reserve Bank of Australia is likely to decide its next rate move, and what to watch out for in the 2nd half of the year after a strong first half for US markets.

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19 June 2023
Bigger Picture: Markets head into the week with optimism over Sino-US ties
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, discusses why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China over the weekend is being seen as a positive sign for relations, as well as the central banks in action this week watch out for.

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5 June 2023
Bigger Picture: Markets poised for gains with US debt ceiling deal reached
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, outlines some of the big news pieces investors will be digesting including the implications of the latest deal around the US debt ceiling standoff, plus OPEC+'s surprise decision for Saudi Arabia to cut by an additional 1 million barrels per day.

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22 May 2023
Bigger Picture: Markets on edge as clock ticks for US debt ceiling
The debt ceiling continues to hang over the markets this week. Is the possibility of no deal already priced into the markets?
Elsewhere in Asia, investors will be waiting on a slew of central bank meetings this week.
The Nikkei is on a tear, hitting 33-year highs. Is there room to the upside or has this train already left the station?
Matthew Taylor, Senior Director of FTI consulting, joins us on the Bigger Picture to unpack it all for what to look ahead in the week.
Presenter : Sean Cheong
This podcast is edited by Anthea Ng (nganthea@sph.com.sg)

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8 May 2023
Bigger Picture: Making sense of the wild swinging VIX
On the Bigger Picture, Sean Cheong chat with Matthew Taylor, Senior Director, Strategic Communications, FTI Consulting, on the latest US Jobs Data; the VIX, which has moved parabolically in the last week; and what could happen if US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen's warning about the debt ceiling, is to come to pass.

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17 April 2023
Bigger Picture: China Q1 GDP improvement expected
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting previews some of the big events and data points investors should watch out for including China's Q1 GDP, and Indonesia's central bank decision.

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3 April 2023
Bigger Picture: Markets were defiant in March, what's next for investors?
U.S. markets posted strong gains last Friday on the back of lower-than-expected inflation readings for February.
How will this translate to movements in Asia when markets open today for a fresh week of trading?
Willie Keng finds out more from Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, plus what else to look ahead this week.

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20 March 2023
Bigger Picture: FOMC in focus amid banking sector turmoil
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses how the US Federal Reserve will balance between financial and price stability when it makes its interest rate policy decision this week.

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6 March 2023
Bigger Picture: Investors eyeing non-farm payrolls, Powell testimony, China trade
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses the various market event risks this week including whether non-farm payrolls will surprise on the upside again, Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifying on Capitol Hill, and China trade data.

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9 January 2023
Breakfast Brief: Markets see first big rally for global stocks
In today's Breakfast Brief, we speak with Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting on markets seeing the first big rally for global stocks on Friday, US non farm payrolls come in stronger than expected and what to expect for inflation data coming out from China and US this week.

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3 January 2023
Bigger Picture: US jobs report among key events in first week of 2023
Matthew Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting reviews some of the key themes that will carry over from 2022 for investors to watch out for and the events this week to watch out for including the US jobs report.

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28 November 2022
Bigger Picture: China PMIs and protests in focus in week ahead
Matthew Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses what investors can expect in the economic data out from China this week, as well as the potential for protests against COVID-19 restrictions to worsen.

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14 November 2022
Bigger Picture: G20 and Biden-Xi meeting to steer market sentiment
Matthew Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consultingdiscusses what to look out for in the week ahead including the G20 summit, as well as central bank decisions from Indonesia and the Philippines.

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10 October 2022
Bigger Picture: US jobs resiliency weighs on markets
Matthew Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, discusses how markets are starting under pressure this week, and what to look out for in key data including Singapore's Q3 GDP advance estimates.

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26 September 2022
Bigger Picture: Fed delivers another big rate hike, implications on markets so far
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses what we can expect from the markets this week, still being in the red after the Fed's hike and notable data to look out  for this week.

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12 September 2022
Bigger Picture: US inflation & China data to steer sentiment this week
Matthew Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, discusses what to watch out for in the next round of US inflation data, as well as the data dump from China later in the week.

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29 August 2022
Bigger Picture: Powell comments fuel 1,000-point market rout
Matt Taylor, Senior Director, FTI Consulting discusses the markets for the week ahead after the big rout as a result of Jay Powell's comments at the Jackson Hole symposium.

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13 September 2021
Bigger Picture: Week Ahead with CNBC
CNBC's Matt Taylor discusses how markets are set up for this week's US consumer inflation data and how COVID-19 is disrupting Australia's growth outlook.

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4 January 2021
Bigger Picture: Week Ahead with CNBC, 4 Jan 2021
CNBC's Matthew Taylor discusses how markets are heading into the new year amid record highs, and what the big deal is around the rally behind Bitcoin.

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