Barry Wood, RTHK’s International Economics Correspondent, tells Nitin Dialdas that he isn’t expecting rate cuts from the Federal Reserve as soon as March, as some have suggested following the recent JOLTS jobs report. Asian fund management industry consultant Stewart Aldcroft adds that less jobs are available in the US simply because it is winter, and that there are still more job vacancies than unemployed people, just the jobs may not be where the people are.

Carolyn Wright speaks with Tommie Lo, the Founder of Preface, on increased levels of demand for training in AI and what that tells the business world.

Neil Beveridge, Senior Energy Analyst at Bernstein, says OPEC hasn't done enough to keep oil prices above US$80, and there are concerns over what they could do in terms of increasing output after the first quarter of 2024.