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Microsoft warns of foreign hackers’ spying attempts on Trump and Biden

Washington — Hackers linked to Russia, China, and Iran are trying to spy on people tied to both US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, Microsoft said on Thursday. The report came as Reuters reported that one of Biden's main campaign advisory firms had been warned by the…
11 Sep 2020 9AM 4 min

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Soak up the sun

1. Soak up the sun A Barcelona hospital is letting its Covid-19 patients out into the sun, partly in a bid to increase their vitamin D intake, after a Spanish study suggested it reduces intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. The study was published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry &…
11 Sep 2020 8AM 2 min

Demand factors count and ignoring them will preclude growth

Following parliament’s standing committee on finance’s near rejection of the supplementary budget, finance minister Tito Mboweni wrote an oped extolling structural reforms as a cure for a moribund economy. His argument centred on three inter-meshed but analytically distinct issues. He reasoned that, with the current high debt levels, SA cannot…
11 Sep 2020 8AM 8 min

Black Italian designer calls out racism in fashion industry

Rome — Stella Jean, the Haitian-Italian designer who has just announced a boycott of Milan Fashion Week, says she has suffered racism all her life. But it was only when she encountered it in Italy’s mainly white fashion industry that she realised just how unwilling people are to talk about…
11 Sep 2020 7AM 3 min

US police open arson probe as more deaths expected in Oregon

Ashland, Oregon — Arson investigators have opened a probe into the suspicious origins of a deadly Oregon wildfire that began in the town of Ashland and destroyed hundreds of homes in nearby communities, Ashland's police chief said on Thursday. The remains of two victims have been found in ruins from…
11 Sep 2020 6AM 3 min

Trump and Biden to commemorate of 9/11 attacks

Washington — US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Friday, with both candidates separately visiting the rural Pennsylvania field where one of the hijacked planes crashed. Biden and his wife Jill will first attend a morning ceremony…
11 Sep 2020 6AM 2 min

Oil falls for second day as US stockpiles rise again

London — Oil prices fell for a second day and were on track for a second weekly fall after US stock markets tumbled and US stockpiles rose unexpectedly. Brent was down 12c, or 0.3%, at $39.94 a barrel by 8.41am GMT, after falling nearly 2% on Thursday, while US crude…
11 Sep 2020 6AM 2 min

Global shares struggle after US tech stocks fall again

London/Tokyo — European shares struggled for momentum on Friday as doubts about extra monetary stimulus and overnight falls in US big tech shares kept investors on edge. Elevated fears over a messy hard Brexit added to the bearish sentiment, putting sterling on track for its worst week since March after…
11 Sep 2020 6AM 4 min

China likely to halt German pork imports due to case of African swine fever

Kuala Lumpur/Beijing — Nervousness is mounting over whether top pork consumer China will halt imports of the meat from Europe’s biggest producer on concerns about a pig-killing disease. Germany, which counts on China as a key pork market, confirmed a case of African swine fever on Thursday. That’s already caused…
11 Sep 2020 6AM 1 min

Macron should stop talking Turkey because Turkey will just keep talking back

For Emmanuel Macron, the moment of truth is approaching at a rate of knots. The French president has again fired off rhetorical broadsides at his Turkish counterpart over the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean. But words are not going to break Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bones, and Macron will struggle to…
11 Sep 2020 5AM 3 min

Trust in a Covid-19 vaccine varies widely, and that could be a deadly problem

Radically different opinions around the world on the safety, effectiveness and importance of vaccines highlight the challenge facing health officials once a Covid-19 shot arrives. In countries such as South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and Poland, confidence in vaccines has declined in recent years, according to a study published on Thursday…
11 Sep 2020 5AM 3 min

WACH: Stock picks — GlaxoSmithKline and Apple

Graeme Körner from Körner Perspective ( GlaxoSmithKline as his stock pick of the day and Mia Kruger from Kruger Internationals ( chose Apple. Körner said: “I’m going for GlaxoSmithKline. I think it’s an amazing OTC [over the counter] portfolio and strong in vaccines. It also has a good pharma portfolio…
11 Sep 2020 4AM 1 min

Trump’s rehashed promises on China risks giving Biden the upper hand

President Donald Trump is reviving his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of only limited success in rewriting the economic relationship with Beijing. Much of what the Trump team has laid out in recent weeks sounds like campaign promises made four…
11 Sep 2020 4AM 5 min

Europe to blame for burning of Moria refugee camp

It almost doesn’t matter who started the fires this week in the squalid refugee camp on Lesbos called Moria, leaving thousands to sleep on the streets. It could have been the desperate migrants, dwelling in cramped tents without clean toilets and forced by Covid-19 to “quarantine,” whatever that may mean…
11 Sep 2020 3AM 5 min

Gold dips as dollar gains ground

Gold prices fell on Friday as the US dollar rebounded, but was on track for a weekly gain underpinned by worries over a global economic recovery from the coronavirus-led slump. Spot gold was down 0.8% at $1,938.53/oz at 3.08am GMT, after hitting its best level since September 2 at $1,965.94/oz…
11 Sep 2020 2AM 2 min

Asian shares falter as sell-off on Wall St resumes

Tokyo — Asian shares struggled to stem a bearish mood on Friday after US big tech firm shares fell again overnight on growing doubts about US stimulus and worries about their stretched valuations. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.2%, hovering just above a one-month trough touched…
11 Sep 2020 1AM 3 min

Oil extends losses on demand concerns

Tokyo — Oil prices fell for a second day on Friday, pressured by a surprise rise in US stockpiles as the coronavirus pandemic continues to erode demand for fuels. Brent crude was down 18c, or 0.5%, at $39.88 a barrel by 3.37am GMT, after falling nearly 2% on Thursday, while…
11 Sep 2020 1AM 2 min
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