Monday blues

Happy Monday Folks! Let us spare a thought today for the 180 or so victims of the Listeria outbreak in South Africa. Here's what caught my eye this morning.....

Tiger Brands (JSE:TBS) and RCL Foods (JSE:RCL) feel the effects of Listeria, and more on the Listeria outbreak in South Africa. Time will tell what the consequences will be for the entities involved in distributing the contaminated products.

An industry that is likely to experience growth in the U.S. is School Security, with the recent mass shootings taking place. 

In China, there seems a trade war brewing with the U.S while  Tencent’s WeChat user numbers continue to surge and China's fashion ambitions for Ethiopia continue to grow.

Here's some insight on what Uber and Lyft drivers make per hour with many feared to be making less than the U.S. minimal wage and

A Federal Administrative Court's ruling recently allows German cities to ban diesel vehicles from city centers due to excess nitrogen oxide emissions and what this means for German drivers. Other countries will probably follow suit sooner rather than later.

In the Company corner, new Liberty Insurance (JSE:LIB) chief executive has big expectations for the company and Liberty gets a boost from it's investment portfolio in the year to end-December, Africa's biggest beer company plans to ramp up investment on the continent and France's biggest insurer, AXA SA (AXAF.PA) concludes insurance mega-deal.