Tim Waterer, Chief Market Analyst, KCM Trade tells James Ross that the Fed is playing their cards close to their chest and remaining noncommittal, as the outlook for inflation in 2025 is not yet clear. Ben Emons, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Fed Watch Advisors, says the Fed minutes suggest that it’s unlikely there’s room for more than one cut this year as things stand.

Paul Gordon, co-author of Spenditude, and Head of Financial Wellbeing at Aon, continues his discussion on how you can get your financial life in order at the end of one year and start of the next, in part two of a three part chat.

Barry Wood, RTHK’s International Economics Correspondent, kicks off by talking on the Wall Street tradition of markets closing for state funerals of former presidents. He moves onto US president-elect Donald Trump’s claims about taking over both the Panama Canal and Greenland.