Market View: Oil Above $100, AI Mania and Trump-Xi Deal Optimism

LIVE WELL WITH MICHELLE: Why you need to believe you are "a money person"

A finance professional loses S$1.2 million. Another woman loses S$330,000 to someone she thought cared about her. Hosted by Michelle Martin, this deeply personal conversation explores the emotional roots of financial vulnerability - why fear, loneliness, and stress can lead more of us to defer to authority or silence our own intuition in moments where we must need to make good decisions or face big losses.  Drawing from real scam cases and the memoir of Vanderbilt heiress Belle Burden, Michelle examines the hidden ways we can disengage from financial power and how to get that control back. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Market View: Oil Above $100, AI Mania and Trump-Xi Deal Optimism

Can diplomacy keep markets calm while oil, inflation and AI euphoria all surge at once? Asia-Pacific markets look set for a cautiously positive open after Wall Street rallied on growing optimism around the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. Market View unpacks why investors are cheering signs of renewed US-China economic cooperation even as oil prices jump back above US$100 a barrel amid Strait of Hormuz tensions. We dive into President Donald Trump’s claim that China will buy more American oil, why Boeing shares still fell despite a major 200-plane China order, and what that says about expectations-driven markets in 2026. Meanwhile, AI remains the dominant force on Wall Street explore Cerebras Systems’ blockbuster IPO debut, rising Treasury yields, sticky inflation pressures and why markets are increasingly balancing optimism about growth against deep concerns about geopolitics and energy shocks. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Money and Me: Finance Confidence Reset for Women

Many financially successful women remain passive participants in their own financial lives until a crisis forces visibility. Hosted by Michelle Martin, this episode explores the issue of women and  financial disengagement  with Grace Tay, Associate Director at Finexis Advisory and a lawyer-turned-financial consultant. The conversation examines “financial infidelity,” emotional manipulation, and how women can regain financial visibility, confidence and agency. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

LIVE WELL WITH MICHELLE: When letting go is the healthiest thing you can do

What comes to mind when you think of letting go? Perhaps you are trying to let go of unhelpful thoughts or beliefs or habits. Perhaps the best masterclass on letting go comes from survivors of illnesses that take away what we assume we have for life. On LIVE WELL WITH MICHELLE, Michelle takes us through the deeply human story of a Singaporean stroke survivor whose new book is an invitation to rethink letting go and returning home to ourselves. Michelle highlights lessons on coping with loss after major life transitions. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Money and Me: Why Markets Keep Betting Against Fear

Markets are shrugging off virus scares, rising bond yields and fragile US-China tensions - but are investors becoming dangerously comfortable with risk? Hosted by Michelle Martin with Arun Pai, Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures, this episode unpacks why Wall Street appears increasingly willing to “buy the dip” even during moments of geopolitical and health uncertainty. Michelle explores what it means when figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg travel alongside US President Donald Trump to China - and whether corporate America is now shaping diplomacy as much as governments. The conversation also dives into the quiet but important rise in bond yields and why markets may be losing faith in imminent rate cuts. From biotech names like Moderna to tech giants and global capital flows, discover which sectors could win - or suffer - if higher rates and geopolitical uncertainty persist. Hosted by Michelle Martin. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.