Gold to breach $7,000? Standard Bank’s expert reckons so …
The ‘View from the Room’ session at Standard Bank’s African Markets Conference pitted the audience’s economic projections against those of experts…
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Now the party is over, who washes the G20 dishes?
The G20 event was marked most by US and Chinese absentia. These absences send a message – that South Africa is ignorable, despite the…
How South Africa’s funds fared in tariff-tossed April
April was a wild month for investors. So how did South Africa’s hedge funds perform? Not as well as you might think…
Purple group: Where’s the market love?
A series of record-beating customer deposits has helped Purple Group post a threefold surge in half-year profit. Yet the stock remains in the doldrums…
Stocks to weather the tariff crash
Not panicking seems the best way to survive market crashes. But here are a few market ideas to weather the Trumpian tariff fallout…
Half the South Africa fund in four stocks? Yep, that’s John Biccard
Legendary value investor John Biccard tells us what he’s buying, what he’s sold, and what he makes of the new world order…
Coulda, shoulda, didn’t …
With ‘Trumpflation’ looming, South Africa’s Reserve Bank has again kept rates on hold – even as cuts are long overdue, say critics…
With a US recession around the corner, where are the adults?
There will be a recession in the US, not because of inflation, Covid or the Ukraine – but because of the uncertainty Trump has…
Behind Trump’s $1bn energy blow to South Africa
It seemed catastrophic when Donald Trump cut $1bn in funding for South Africa’s just energy transition. But it is far from existential…
Diplomacy is not ‘The Apprentice’, Donald
The blunt approach taken by Donald ‘The Apprentice’ Trump is getting results – but true diplomacy with lasting solutions must be a lot more…
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Ban Ki-moon’s (overly) simple fix for South Africa
The former UN secretary-general says South Africa should focus on…
The utility – and tragedy – of a boring budget
South Africa’s increasingly low-grade ambitions are writ large in this…
The surprising firsts that shaped Joburg
Here’s a little history of Joburg’s earliest architectural and cultural…
Eight questions for the interesting and interested: Sahil Harilal
Charles Greig Jewellery’s marketing manager, Sahil Harilal, on art, fashion,…
