📊 Naspers share split.
📈 Results; Sasol, Grindrod & ADvTech.
💬 Jackson Hole update. Markets pricing in September & December rate cuts with high certainty.
💸 Trump fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook.
🇺🇸 Trump administration takes a 10% stake in Intel via the Chips Act.
💷 UK debt crisis – 30-year gilt yields at levels last seen in 1998 (5.6%).

Buffett buys UnitedHealth – should you?
Google’s IPO turns 21 🎂 (8,000% return!)
MTN & Standard Bank results 📊
Sasol trade idea 🛢️

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US inflation 📰 sparks hopes for a September Fed rate cut 🏦
Sasol’s update sends shares up nearly 10% 🚀
We dig into share buybacks 💰
The Resi10 index’s huge +72.5% YTD gain 🪙
Trump’s 15% tax on AI chip sales to China 🤖
China’s trade surplus hits a record $1.2T 📦

🔥 Inflation shocker 🇿🇦
📈 Purple Group flying
🚗 Vehicle sales smash expectations
🥇 Gold miners printing cash
🤯 Trump fires BLS head
🪙 Only 2 MPs hold crypto?!

🎧 Catch it all on the latest episode of Worldwide Markets with Simon Brown!

💥 Tariffs hit SA exports, which stocks?
💸 SARB not cutting rates fast enough
🥇 Why hasn’t the Reserve Bank bought gold in 20 years?
📈 New 100% capital-protected investment from Standard Bank
🚗 Chinese cars are cheap, loaded & coming fast
📉 Alphabet results + looming antitrust rulings

📊 Smart insights, sharp takes – with Simon Brown
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📉 Lower inflation target: smart move or policy risk?
💵 Weaker US dollar = tech stock winners
🛠️ Sibanye’s recycling deal 💡
🪙 PGMs on the rise, Afrimat looking 🔍 undervalued
🏢 Hyprop’s bold bid for MAS PLC

🚨 US inflation ticks up, China housing sinks 🏘️, and Bitcoin treasury companies 🤯 — what are they, and why do they exist? PGMs shine ✨, Nvidia hits $4T 🚀, and Trump throws tariffs at copper and SA 🇿🇦. Another packed show this week with Simon Brown.

In this week’s Worldwide Markets, Simon Brown unpacks Trump’s bold (and chaotic) economic strategy: tariffs, spending cuts, deregulation, and the elusive Mar-a-Lago Accord. Is there a method to the madness, or just more noise from the campaign trail? Recorded from sunny Durban 🌞 with a side of curry and chaos.

Simon Brown unpacks a wild first half of 2025:
💵 The dollar’s worst start in 50 years
🔥 Platinum up 52%
📊 SA markets +17%
🌐 Europe & Asia rallying
🇺🇸 Trump’s tariffs rocking global flows

💸 Are your investments silently bleeding fees?

🎧 This week Simon unpacks the Effective Annual Cost (EAC) and why it’s the only fee that really matters.

🛢️ Oil tanks nearly 20%
⚙️ Sasol gets smoked
💱 Rand strengthens
🏦 Fed plays the data game
🪙 PGMs shine as platinum hits 10-year highs
🥇 Gold dips but holds the trend

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