Zoe Schneeweiss, Jenny Leonard and Albertina Torsoli, Bloomberg on 01/21/2026

ECB’s Lagarde left Davos dinner after Lutnick slammed Europe

Lutnick’s speech to the dinner guests belittled European economies and their lack of competitiveness compared to the US’s prowess.

Z Zoe Schneeweiss, Jenny Leonard and Albertina Torsoli, Bloomberg
Jeremy Maggs on 01/21/2026

Why Davos has investors rethinking geopolitics, AI and South Africa

‘I think investors have been surprised by the extent to which we have seen successful reform … another six months or 12 months of providing delivery like that and I think we're going to see investors taking the SA growth story quite seriously,’ says Chris Holdsworth, chief investment strategist at I

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S'thembile Cele and Ntando Thukwana, Bloomberg on 01/21/2026

South Africa meat-price growth at eight-year high on outbreak

Meat prices in urban areas were 12.6% higher in December than a year earlier and were the fastest growing price component in the food-inflation basket.

S S'thembile Cele and Ntando Thukwana, Bloomberg
Simon Brown on 01/21/2026

Five defining property trends for 2026

Justin Easthorpe from ooba discusses demographic shifts in SA homebuying, including more first-time, female and Generation Z buyers.

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