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After losing out big on the global AI rally, Indian equities are regaining the attention of investors seeking to weather the latest market turbulence. With the artificial intelligence frenzy roiling benchmark gauges from Asia to the US, the NSE Nifty 50 Index is becoming a safe haven of sorts for global investors. In the first half of the year, it moved 1% or more on just about one-third of the days – less than the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and barely more than the S&P 500 Index.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) left its global growth forecast largely unchanged for this year, saying that the boom in artificial intelligence helped offset the fallout from the conflict in the Middle East. “Global economic activity and the outlook are being shaped by two major forces, pushing in opposite directions with asymmetric effects across countries,” the Washington-based lender said in an update to its World Economic Outlook report published Wednesday.

El Niño has begun and forecasters predict a more than 60% chance that the naturally occurring phenomenon could become a very strong, or super El Niño later in 2026. El Niño begins with warmer water in the Pacific Ocean near the equator and can have a cascade of dramatic effects on the world’s weather. But what chain of events has to happen for high temperatures in the Pacific to translate into severe floods, droughts and storms around the world? And what role does climate change play in El Niño?

South Africa is having a moment. After years of worrying about everything that could go wrong – load shedding hammering businesses, the rand freefalling, political uncertainty making people nervous – investors are now finding reasons for optimism. In recent months, local markets have performed better-than-expected, and the mood is cautiously hopeful. But while there are positive signs, investors should be careful not to mistake green shoots for structural improvement.

The oil industry has spent more than a century pushing into new frontiers. Its engineers pulled crude from beneath deserts, oceans and frozen tundra. Its traders built markets that turned oil into the world’s most actively traded commodity. Now a small crypto startup is trying to persuade the industry to experiment with a different kind of frontier: putting a barrel of oil on a blockchain. The company, Energy Substantiation, wants oil suppliers to help support a digital token tied to physical crude.

US President Donald Trump once called cryptocurrency a “scam”. It’s now a major moneymaker for him: his just-released annual financial disclosure shows he made more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency last year. This news has raised the ire of Trump’s critics. Juliana Stratton, the Illinois lieutenant governor and a Democratic Senate candidate, accused Trump of using his public office “to make billions while American families struggle to afford their basic needs.

A sudden burst of extreme price volatility in the coffee market has caught traders and analysts off-guard and left them bracing for more instability. Prices for arabica coffee, the premium variety favored by Starbucks and other specialty roasters, had cooled this year on hopes of a record Brazilian coffee harvest, even though the beans have been slow to arrive in the US and Europe. Speculators and other technical drivers upended that in just hours.

Small-cap real estate investment trust (Reit) Accelerate Property Fund has confirmed the disposal of a plot of land near its flagship Fourways Mall. The offloaded property by the debt-laden property counter is also home to the BMW Fourways dealership on the corner of Witkoppen and Cedar Road, in the north of Johannesburg. It was sold for R174 million.

You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. JEREMY MAGGS: The Aarto (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) rollout, as you well know, is continuing, but questions around readiness, fairness and enforcement are not going away. Now, as I understand it, the demerit system is meant to change driver behaviour and make roads safer. We should welcome that. But motorists are also asking a very practical question: Could someone else’s offence end up costing me my licence?

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