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Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc.
Global Investing

Palantir short sellers lose $3 billion as AI-fuelled rally ignites

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Bloomberg
3 min read
S3 Partners data show bearish investors erased a $2.7 billion year-to-date gain in a single session as the stock jumped 30%.
Supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) outside the Iziko Lobomi community centre polling station in Imizamo Yethu, in the Hout Bay district of Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. South Africans vote in an election that looks set to reshape a political landscape dominated for three decades by the party that Nelson Mandela led to power. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg
Thought Leaders

Dr Frans Cronjé: Why the ANC now polls at 34%, and what it means for SA

By
The Common Sense
5 min read
With growth stuck near 1%, new polling suggests the GNU's structure matters less than the jobs and investment it fails to deliver.
An Amazon Web Services data center in Aldie, Virginia, US, on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
Global Investing

The Economist: Bond markets warn Governments are making a dangerous bet on AI boom

By
The Economist
3 min read
Yields in America, Britain, France and Japan are near 2007-09 highs, and deficits show little sign of narrowing.
Coal supplies near cooling towers at Sasol Ltd.'s main plant in Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Energy

Sasol cashes in on war-driven fuel price surge

By
Bloomberg
3 min read
Sasol's coal-to-liquids output is running near five-year highs, with earnings set to hit R62 billion as oil trades well above its $50 breakeven point.
Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, left, and Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. Anthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the US response to Covid-19, invoking his 5th Amendment rights.
Health

Fauci on trial: Will silence seal the historical record of the pandemic in darkness?

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Editor BizNews
5 min read
COVID accountability, Fauci's Senate testimony, media silence and unresolved pandemic questions renew calls for transparency, scientific integrity and truth.
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