The Rand is powering ahead on the back of a weaker Dollar, commitments from the Chinese President for Foreign Direct Investment, and talks of BRICS countries rallying together to negate the impact of Trade Wars. Anthea breaks down this week’s big financial stories. She also touches on Hulamin, Capco, AECI and Kumba reports locally. On the international front, she comments on Alphabet delivering on extraordinary growth strategy and Facebook making the history books for being one of the biggest drops by value in the history of stock markets.