Market Indicators
USD/ZAR 16.67 🔼
EUR/ZAR 18.96 🔼
AUD/ZAR 11.61 🔼
GBP/ZAR 22.23 🔼
Brent Crude USD 94.29 / ZAR 1,572 🔼
Gold (Au) USD 4,083 / ZAR 68,062 🔼
BTC USD 65,705 / ZAR 1,095,304 🔼
COFFEE USD 3.17 / ZAR 52.84 / LBS 🔽
The SARB BLINKED, then held rates, despite June inflation JUMPING to 5%. A two-year high driven by the FUEL pump, MZANSI has a little breathing room. The backdrop is UGLY. Oil ROARED to a six-week high near USD94 as the US-Iran strikes dragged on and Houthi missiles HIT Saudi tankers in the Red Sea for the first time. The ZAR slid past 16.60. So we sit STUCK between the pump and the repo, with the Fed up next week. None of it warrants a portfolio shuffle. Do NOTHING rash. Enjoy the returns from the PRUDENT asset mix.
DRONE and BEHEMOTH
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/bowhead-whale-ice-greenland
AI goes ROGUE, escapes sandbox.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-ai-trained-for-long-running-tasks-can-drift-into-rogue-behavior
SUDS heist, 44 CONVICTIONS.
Hidden FAULT under the KAROO.
HOMER wrapped in a MUMMY.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713084918.htm
INTEREST: The Moon is slowly moving AWAY from Earth. It drifts farther away by about the RATE that your fingernails GROW.
"PATIENCE serves as a PROTECTION against wrongs as clothes do against cold." — Leonardo da Vinci
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