BizNews Breakfast Briefing Ep3 - Markets come back; Gupta banks criticised; Feisty food servers; Chinese stocks rebound

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In this morning's Breakfast Briefing we hear how asset prices recovered from an early knock after Fed chairman Jay Powell warned that taming inflation through higher interest rates is his top priority. Also in this episode, highlights of Mike Appel's interview with the Wits academic who reckons the banks were wrong in the way they handled Gupta bank accounts; Alec Hogg chats to a couple of feisty restauranteurs who are 'gatvol with bureaucrats, Eskom and the government; plus the FT reports that on the Revlon bankruptcy and how Chinese stocks are set to close their best month since 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Jun 2022 12AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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