Flash Briefing: Shares' best qtr since 2009; Moody's SA non event; Zuckerberg wants privacy; China manufacturing rebounding

Global stocks markets ended the first three months of 2019 in great shape with another winning session on Friday taking US shares to their best quarterly result in almost a decade. China’s Purchasing Manager’s Index, the official gauge of activity in the country’s manufacturing sector of the world’s second biggest economy, rebounded strongly in March. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has called on global lawmakers to introduce more regulation on his own and other internet companies across areas including user privacy. South African shares closed the week with three successive winning sessions with the JSE’s All Share Index rising three quarters of a percent on Friday.