Flash Briefing: Tesla tanks on Musk blog; Ghosn leaves jail; US Unis hacked by China; SA 2018 GDP 0.8%

In today’s global business headlines….. The price Tesla shares continued to fall last night, taking its fall in the three trading sessions of March well into double digits. Although hopes are high for a deal to end the trade war, tensions between America and China are sure to be tested after evidence surfaced of widespread hacking of US military secrets by Beijing. Former Nissan and Renault chairman Carlos Ghosn was yesterday granted bail of $9m, ending his 107 day jailing after his shock arrest last November. In South African news, the country’s official economic growth rate for 2018 closed at 0.8%, half that of its population expansion.