Market Indicators
ZAR17.89/USD 🔽 ZAR20.29/EUR 🔼 ZAR11.54/AUD 🔽 ZAR23.14/GBP 🔽 BrentCrude@ USD64.52/ZAR1,087/barrel 🔽 Au@USD3223/ZAR59494/t.oz 🔼 1BTC@ZAR1 984 828/USD110 836 🔼
GLOBAL investors digested the implications of President Trump’s recently passed tax-and-SPENDING package on the nation’s already sizable fiscal deficit – markets UNCHANGED. MZANSI national BUDGET 3.0 accepted by spectrum of political parties as EXPANSIONARY and growth DRIVEN. Consumer PAIN is expected, in the short term . Donald and Cyril CHINWAG at the WH was riveting – your THOUGHTS ?
SOFT power ?
Read the here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/video-how-middle-east-oil-giants-are-building-soft-power?srnd=homepage-africa
HELMET for USD 1 M.
Read it here:https://racingnews365.com/special-ayrton-senna-f1-crash-helmet-auctioned-for-record-sum
HIGHEST bridge.
Read it here: https://www.getaway.co.za/travel-news/worlds-tallest-bridge-to-open-in-june/
UK & Ireland MARINE heatwave
Read it here: https://newsgpt.ai/2025/05/22/uk-ireland-marine-heatwave-sea-temperatures-soar/
INTEREST: In 1779, nobles DINED inside Mount Vesuvius’s crater—next to molten lava—just for FUN.
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