Flash Briefing: Trump tantrum; ending SLPs; MSFT v AAPL; Vitality's global breakthrough

In today’s global headlines…. US President Donald Trump is back into his feisty mode, raising concern that Friday’s Buenos Aires meeting with his Chinese counterpart could further escalate global tensions. Fallout continues from the Russian money laundering scandal at Danske Bank’s Estonia office, with attention now focusing on the UK’s Scottish Limited Partnerships, long identified as a favourite vehicle for organised crime. The battle for the world’s most valuable company has heated up with Microsoft closing the gap on Apple to a few billion dollars.  And in South African related news, Discovery co-founder and CEO Adrian Gore is in London this morning to officially release results of a massive 400 000 person behavioural economics study.