Flash Briefing: SA building sites ablaze; Google, Roundup, Investec, Hudaco, Brexit.

European antagonism against Big Tech gathered momentum yesterday when Google was fined €1.5bn by the EU for limiting how some websites could display ads sold by its rivals. British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday asked the European Union to delay its departure from the bloc by three months to June 30. In the second such case to go before the courts, a San Francisco jury has found that a man developed cancer from exposure to Roundup weedkiller. In South Africa, some big construction sites have become a battle ground as armed gangs try to disrupt building operations in the name of radical economic transformation.  It was a day of mostly red ink for the JSE ahead of the  public holiday, with the all share index losing one and a quarter percent.