Flash Briefing: Glencore spills Gupta beans; Trump called "a conman"; Six Africans among world's richest; Metrobank shares plunge 26%.

In today’s global business headlines….. US president Donald Trump was described as a conman, a racist and a liar by his personal lawyer of 10 years, Michael Cohen in testimony before Congress yesterday. Six Africans feature on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s 500 richest people released yesterday. The share price of the UK’s Metrobank took another 26% hit yesterday after it merged that the one time London market darling requires a £350m capital injection from shareholders. In South African related news, the ugly truth emerged yesterday about how the Guptas and their allies at Eskom and in Jacob Zuma’s cabinet strong-armed international mining house Glencore to sell a major South African coal mine.