Flash Briefing: Business sentiment; travel restrictions; Sasol; new Bidvest boss; JSE movers

Loading player...
In today's news headlines:
* The Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index is on an upward trend, with purchasing managers cautiously optimistic about the future;
* Details on the new travel restrictions, with tourists from countries that are ‘high risk’ not be allowed to enter South Africa;
* Sasol announced on Friday that chemical company LyondellBasell Industries has agreed to acquire a 50% stake in a unit of its US-based business for $2bn, helping the petrochemicals company reduce its debt from $10bn to $8bn; and
* Mpumi Mandisa who was announced as Bidvest’s CEO Designate in March last year, has finally taken the helm. She is the first female CEO of the group and one of only two female black CEOs of JSE Top 40 companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 Oct 2020 12PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

BN Daybreak: Apple earnings; Amazon AWS; RMB housing; Anglo’s SA exit; Tesla China sale

Today's BizNews Daybreak covers Apple's quarterly results, Rivian's SUV success, and Anthropic's AI breach, alongside a semiconductor rally driven by Microsoft and Oracle. Football federations oppose FIFA selling World Cup stakes, while Donald Trump claims a Gaza disarmament agreement. Meanwhile, Alec Hogg discusses Anglo American’s South Africa exit, RMB launches…
30 Jul 11PM 14 min

Cityboy: How psychopaths win big in business, politics - but lose in life

A former top-ranked City of London stockbroker has written a manual for winning at business, politics and life. There's just one catch: to follow it, you'd have to think like a psychopath. Geraint Anderson, the man behind the legendary "Cityboy" column, tells BizNews editor Alec Hogg why he built his…
30 Jul 9AM 32 min

R1-billion blended finance programme to transform real estate

In this interview with Chris Steyn, Alessandro Scalco of RMB Sustainable Finance shares the details of a R1 billion Blended Finance Programme to formalise and scale South Africa’s burgeoning affordable rental market. Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has partnered with INDLU, a property financial technology company that empowers landowners to build,…
30 Jul 6AM 15 min