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“Japan has expressed hope that the U.S. would rejoin the group or find some way to link up with it,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
Overseas investors have been attracted to the resilience of the UK property market despite a pandemic and economic uncertainty caused by Brexit.
As post-Brexit trade talks between the EU and UK develop, there will be repercussions for the South African economy.
It’s not hard to imagine that a referendum on Western Cape independence would be successful, says 200-year-old British political magazine The Spectator.
Foreign investors have been snapping up SA equities. Offshore investors bought a net R1.97 billion of JSE stocks last week, data from the JSE showed on Monday.
Biznews columnist Simon Lincoln Reader has been reflecting on the historic UK election victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party a week ago.
There appears to be many lessons for countries around the world including South Africa in the resounding victory of Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party.
The pound rose strongly in the wake of this morning’s news of a historic realignment of British politics where many working class seats have switched across to the Conservative Party whose leader Boris Johnson has the mandate to enact Brexit next month.
Boris Johnson’s gamble paid off in spades as the British electing public realigned behind the Conservative leader giving him a mandate to executive Brexit in January – and putting socialist opponent Jeremy Corbyn’s career into the dumpster.
The UK media have painted the national elections as a two-party race between Boris Johnson’s Conservatives and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.