BizNews BizNews Radio

BN Daybreak - Tue 9 June 2026: OpenAI and SpaceX IPOs; Israel-Iran truce; PPC profits; FIFA tourism struggles

Loading player...
In today's Daybreak episode, OpenAI files for a fall IPO and SpaceX’s oversubscribed listing targets a $1.8 trillion valuation. Meanwhile, Israel and Iran ease strikes after Trump's intervention.

Locally, a new AGOA proposal allows South African firms to opt out of BEE to avoid US tariffs, PPC's 84% profit surge triggers stock volatility, Bernard Montgomery reminisces on the old JSE floor, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup struggles with tourism forecasts.
8 Jun 11PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Preloved boots give Eastern Cape township rugby a boost

Across the Eastern Cape, boys and girls run onto rugby fields in their school shoes or a pair of tekkies. Lincoln Mali, founder of the Mzwandile Mali Schools Rugby Champions League, tells BizNews how a visit by businessman Paul Gardiner to Kwanobuhle township led to Boots for Boys and Girls,…
6 Nov 7AM 15 min

Solly Moeng: Mashaba and Zille, MK's rise, FF Plus, Malema

One day after the Local Government Elections in South Africa, in this interview with Chris Steyn - just after four o'clock and with 43% of the results in - political commentator Solly Moeng says Action SA leader Herman Mashaba and his party leadership need to listen to calls from voters…
5 Nov 11AM 26 min

BizNews Ricardo Portfolio update: Palantir, Uber, Lesaka, and Exemplar

Four companies BizNews owns reported in the same week, so Alec Hogg went back to his own valuations to see whether they still held. Palantir nearly doubled its revenue and its chief executive declared his intent to take "the entire market", yet one number nagged at Alec. Uber delivered a…
5 Nov 10AM 41 min
All episodes