MONOLOGUE, ARREST, DEBT, 116, 4, BLUE, RIBS, CAN

Market Indicators

ZAR17.74/USD 🔽 ZAR20.55/EUR 🔽 ZAR11.38/AUD 🔽 ZAR23.76/GBP 🔽 BrentCrude@ USD63.61/ZAR1128/barrel 🔽 Au@USD3,328/ZAR59064/t.oz 🔽 1BTC@ZAR2,008 418/USD113,184 🔽

US stock futures TICKED up Friday as investors awaited Fed Res Chair Jerome Powell’s REMARKS at Jackson Hole for SIGNALS on the path of interest rates. Markets remain wary that Powell could TEMPER expectations for a near-term rate CUT. The MONOLOGUE continues in MZANSI – one CANNOT write this stuff !!

NORDSTREAM arrest.

Read it here: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukrainian-man-arrested-italy-over-nord-stream-pipeline-attacks-2025-08-21/

US debt.

Read it here: https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/the-debt-holders-who-america-owes-its-trillions-to/ss-AA1BdjWh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ASTS&cvid=25801391ca2a4dd6af5a92b691d12932&ei=18#image=3

116 yrs OLD

Read it here: https://newsgpt.ai/2025/08/21/worlds-oldest-person-celebrates-116th-birthday/?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20-%2020%20August%202025&utm_medium=email

4 GIRRAFES

Read it here: https://iucn.org/press-release/202508/four-giraffe-species-officially-recognised-major-conservation-reclassification#:~:text=Windhoek%2C%20Namibia%2C%2021%20August%202025%20%28IUCN%29%20%E2%80%93%20A,world%E2%80%99s%20tallest%20land%20mammal%20as%20a%20single%20species.

BLUE dragon CLOSES beach.

Read it here: https://www.msn.com/en-ie/travel/beach-travel/deadly-blue-dragons-close-costa-blanca-beaches/ar-AA1KXbrF?ocid=BingNewsSerp

INTEREST: Due to BREATHING, your ribs move about five MILLION times a year

Have a great weekend

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