Jsedirect With Simon Brown

Simon Shares Wild week for Naspers (JSE code: NPN), Prosus (JSE code: PRX) as Tencent (Hong Kong code: 700) got slapped down by the Chinese government. We're back at level 3, adjusted. Alcohol sales are allowed and Distell (JSE code: DGH) put out another great trading update. No doubt better if no alcohol bans, but the argument that your industry is under threat wears thin after such an update. President Ramaphosa also announced the return of the pandemic grant to the unemployed at R350 a month until March 2022. This pays to some 9.5million South African and means just over R3billion a month into the economy. How do we pay for it? Dividend tax on these super dividends. Apple $21.7billion in profits, almost doubling the previous year. Alphabet nearly tripled its profits to $18.5billion as advertising revenue grew 69%. Microsoft profits hit $19.1B, up 42% from the previous year. The market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Alphabet, and Microsoft is now over 30% of the entire S&P 500 index and over