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Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, get our tips on working smarter, getting ahead in your career and investing like a pro with ST's business correspondents and editors.

Host Ven Sreenivasan - associate editor at The Straits Times - offer you an extra edge in managing your hard-earned money.

In this episode, he chats with Vasu Menon, executive director of investment strategy at OCBC Bank, about inflation, interest rates, the soaring Greenback and their impact on markets and the investment outlook.

Highlights (click/tap above):

0:56 Inflation likely to remain stubbornly high until supply chain issues are resolved

3:15 Can US inflation be brought down to the 2% target?

5:45 The Greenback to remain muscular as long as the Fed remains on track to hike up rates

7:59 Why investors should accumulate good stocks gradually despite market volatility

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Produced by: Ven Sreenivasan (ven@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Teo Tong Kai

Edited by: Teo Tong Kai

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