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Saudi Aramco has confirmed it is planning to list on the Riyadh stock exchange, in what could be the world's biggest initial public offering. The state-owned oil giant will determine the initial launch price after registering interest from investors. Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., explains what the kingdom hopes to achieve with the listing.

Rating agency Moody's has changed their outlook for South Africa鈥檚 economy from stable to negative. The agency will wait until the country鈥檚 new budget comes out early next year before deciding whether to officially downgrade the country to 鈥渏unk.鈥� Nazmeera Moola at Investec Asset Management in Cape Town describes what the country needs in the immediate future.

The UK鈥檚 opposition Labour party has announced it will go after the super-rich of the country, who they say benefit from a 鈥渞igged system鈥�. Particularly in focus are billionaires, as shadow Treasury Minister Clive Lewis said a class of people so wealthy shouldn鈥檛 exist. Luke Hildyard of the inequality think-tank High Pay Centre weighs in on what could actually be done.

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, the pop critic for the Financial Times, joins the show to discuss Blade Runner. Now that we all live in the era depicted in the 1982 classic, November 2019, we鈥檙e taking a look at what the film got right, and wrong.

And the independent economist Michael Hughes explains why the German central bank and others are buying up gold.

(Picture: an oil processing facility of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and gas company, at the Abqaiq oil field. Picture credit: Stanislav Krasilnikov\TASS via Getty Images)