The elections have come and gone and the people have spoken(in one way or another), there have been winners and losers, and I’m not only referring to the political parties. Voter turn out was disappointing in my opinion, but I guess that is a reflection on the last 5 years if not more, and it […]
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4 Tips for getting into the local equity market.
With more red than green days this month and year, the Local Equity market is proving to be a very scary place both for existing investors and for those looking to enter into this new world. It comes with promises of the highest returns in history. Just take a look at the numbers below: 15.44% […]
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Yesterday, Finance Minister Tito Titus Mboweni delivered his maiden medium term budget speech. WOW. Some of the head lines I have read include the following: “Mid Term Budget Speech: 13 most important quotes from Tito Mboweni”, “Mboweni’s budget speech underwhelming: Shivambu”, “South Africa’s Rand Slumps after Mboweni’s Budget […]
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So after some pretty bleak GDP numbers yesterday our beloved South African Rand took another beating after the SA economy slipped into a technical recession after two quarters of negative GDP growth.If i had to ascribe the ZAR to a character it would be similar to that of Mike Tyson… […]
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