Flash Briefing; US stocks surge; Foreigners help UK retail; $8bn crypto crash; Naspers boosts A2X

In today’s global headlines…. After a bruising month, US stocks posted their best day in a decade yesterday as the three major indices rose over 5% with the Dow up more than 1 000 points for the first time in history.  Total UK retail footfall was down 3% year-on-year yesterday, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the British year, but retail tourists arrived in their planeloads.  Private investors lost more than $8bn through their purchase of new secondary crypto currencies last year. In South African-related news, the 14-month old challenger stock exchange A2X moves up a level today with the debut of Naspers shares