Market Indicators
USD/ZAR: 16.14 🔽
EUR/ZAR: 18.96 🔽
AUD/ZAR: 11.04 🔼
GBP/ZAR: 21.79 🔽
Brent Crude: USD 63.38 / ZAR 1,021.23🔽
Gold (Au): USD 4,907.68 / ZAR 79,212.16 🔽
BTC: USD 89 653.06 / ZAR 1,4459 41.21 🔽
MZANSI’S exchange index is up 4.17% over the past month and 44.70% year on year. The ZAR strengthened to around 16.10 per USD, its strongest LEVEL since June 2022, supported by RECORD precious metal prices. Inflation remains CONTAINED, giving the central bank potential room to CUT rates this year. In the US, Dow and S&P 500 futures were FLAT after two days of gains driven by EASING geopolitical and trade tensions. President Donald Trump BACKED away from proposed tariffs on Europe, citing a framework AGREEMENT with NATO involving Greenland.
CAVE paintings and HUMAN ORIGIN
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx1pnlzer5o
JAPAN suspends NUCLEAR reactor hours after STARTUP.
MOTORBIKES for HOSTAGES.
CHAT GPT to start showing ADVERTS based on conversations.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/16/tech/chatgpt-ads-openai
Fake PILOT scores hundreds of FREE flights.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/canada-pilot-airline-tickets
INTEREST: MARS is not actually round. Unlike any other rocky planet in the Solar System, it’s shaped rather like a RUGBY ball, but with different sizes along ALL three axes. It is actually a Triaxial ELLIPSOID.
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