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We’re taking The Big Take to Asia. Each week, Bloomberg’s Oanh Ha tells a story from the home of the world's most dynamic economies - and the markets, tycoons and...
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We’re taking The Big Take to Asia. Each week, Bloomberg’s Oanh Ha tells a story from the home of the world's most dynamic economies - and the markets, tycoons and businesses that drive the ever-shifting region.
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Big Take Asia
Big Take Asia
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24 SEP 2024 · Talk of de-dollarization has been gaining momentum among China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa in the wake of significant US led sanctions on Russia. Former US President and candidate Donald Trump has said the currency is under attack — and that any country that shuns it would face new tariffs on imports if he is elected. On today's Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Saleha Mohsin about the unique role the dollar plays in the world economy — and what, if anything, could replace it. Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/usd-strong-dollar-dominance/Further listening: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/saleha-mohsin-on-how-the-us-dollar-usd-became-a-weapon-of-warSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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18 SEP 2024 · China’s drive to upgrade its struggling economy has left millions of people facing job losses or pay cuts, fueling an existential crisis among some of its best and brightest workers.
On today's Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg's Lulu Chen about the impact Xi Jinping’s push is having on professionals, from banking to tech, and what this anxiety could mean for the outlook of the world’s second-largest economy.
Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/china-s-cicc-demotes-senior-bankers-cuts-pay-to-slash-costsFurther listening: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-chinas-investment-bankers-are-breaking-up-with/id1746141911?i=1000660955069 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-does-chinas-economic-slowdown-mean-for-the/id1746141911?i=1000656325543See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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10 SEP 2024 · Indonesia has embarked on an ambitious project to build a new capital city from scratch because Jakarta is overcrowded, polluted and sinking, fast. But the multibillion dollar new city, Nusantara, was plagued with problems from the very start. On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Faris Mokhtar about what went wrong, and what’s at stake for Southeast Asia’s largest economy if it fails.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3 SEP 2024 · They caused global markets to seize up – and raised serious questions about just how much money was at stake. No, we’re not talking about Nvidia’s earnings. Or the US jobs report. We’re talking about carry trades – an obscure part of international markets that’s suddenly less obscure. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, the Bloomberg Explains series continues with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Shuli Ren. She tells hosts K. Oanh Ha and David Gura about how the yen carry trade became so popular with big banks to small-time investors, what went wrong during the August markets rout and how soup dumplings are key to understanding why carry trades shouldn’t work … but do. Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-06/how-big-is-the-yen-carry-trade-reallyFurther listening: https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots
Watch, from Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI4qhULFG2o&list=PLqq4LnWs3olXOhUOv4O6r-9OdWTQN83se&index=2See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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27 AUG 2024 · Call centers in the Philippines, the world’s second-biggest outsourcing center after India, are embracing artificial intelligence - and it’s radically changing what it looks and sounds like to work there.
On today's Big Take Asia Podcast, host Rebecca Choong Wilkins demos the Sanas AI app and talks to Bloomberg's Saritha Rai about the industry's rapid transition and what it might mean for workers around the world.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-27/philippines-call-centers-navigate-ai-impact-on-jobsSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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19 AUG 2024 · A Chinese businessman persuaded officials to establish a special economic zone in a remote part of Laos. The gamblers arrived first. Then came the drug runners, human traffickers and scammers.
On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, host K. Oanh Ha speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek editor Matt Campbell about his investigation into the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone and how it became a criminal’s paradise. Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-golden-triangle-special-economic-zone/?srnd=phx-businessweek
Watch, from Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO29RHhlS6gSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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13 AUG 2024 · After weeks of protests and a brutal crackdown that led to several hundred deaths, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to step down and flee the country, putting an abrupt end to her more than 15 years in power. Stepping into the leadership vacuum is Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, who we spoke to last month -- when he was facing charges that his supporters said were trumped up by Hasina. Today on The Big Take Asia, host K. Oanh Ha speaks to Bloomberg’s Kai Schultz about what drove the student-led uprising and Hasina’s downfall, Yunus’s surprising turn to politics, and what’s at stake for one of Asia’s most promising economies. Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/yunus-acquitted-in-graft-case-after-becoming-bangladesh-leader Further listening: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-this-nobel-prize-winner-faces-life-imprisonment/id1746141911?i=1000662444214See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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4 AUG 2024 · Gautam Adani, the controversial Indian billionaire, gathered his two sons and two nephews for a family lunch one day and asked them a bombshell question: Did they want to carve up the Adani Group’s sprawling businesses between themselves and part ways? Or did they want to stick together? He gave them three months to decide. Today on The Big Take Asia, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg editor Anto Antony about the Adanis’ ambitious succession plan, in the wake of regulatory probes and a daring short-seller attack. We also hear from the Adanis themselves on their vision of an Adani Group without Gautam at the helm, how they’ll make decisions to manage an empire – which spans everything from airports to solar farms – and what's at stake for India’s $3.5 trillion economy.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-adani-succession/?srnd=homepage-asia
Further listening: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rise-of-modi-part-1-why-indias-leader-is-so/id1578096201?i=1000655592844
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29 JUL 2024 · Costs are rising in Japan and small businesses risk being squeezed into oblivion if they don’t figure out how to raise their prices. After decades of deflation, many small Japanese companies are out of practice on exactly how to do it. Today on The Big Take Asia, host Rebecca Choong Wilkins talks to Bloomberg senior editor Reed Stevenson about a class he visited where people are relearning the long-lost skill of negotiation, and what a failure to raise prices at these small businesses – which make up 90% of the economy – could mean for Japan’s future.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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23 JUL 2024 · Is K-pop even K-pop without the K? A Bloomberg analysis of song lyrics shows that for the first time, almost half of K-pop songs released this year have majority English lyrics. On today’s podcast, host Sarah Holder speaks with Bloomberg reporter Sohee Kim about the genre’s identity shift and why industry efforts to grow its global audience might mean fewer Korean band members.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We’re taking The Big Take to Asia. Each week, Bloomberg’s Oanh Ha tells a story from the home of the world's most dynamic economies - and the markets, tycoons and...
show more
We’re taking The Big Take to Asia. Each week, Bloomberg’s Oanh Ha tells a story from the home of the world's most dynamic economies - and the markets, tycoons and businesses that drive the ever-shifting region.
show less
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