Markets

2 years ago | June 24, 2022

Stocks have been falling: Time to buy?

Kudzanai Sharara The last few months have been tough for some stock market investors, in particular those who bought at ...

SA bond, equity market: Fight or flight?

Global markets came under severe pressure over the past few days. The inflation genie is not getting back in the bottle ...

2 years ago | June 17, 2022

What is a bear market, how should I invest during one?

The words “bear market” strike fear into the hearts of many investors. But these deep market downturns are unavoidable, ...

Global economic outlook — June 2022

Unrelenting global inflation pressures continue to intensify, with increasingly adverse implications for the growth ...

An aggressive Fed has global ramifications

Global markets took a hammering to start the week as expectations grew that the US Federal Reserve will need to hike ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame Losses in the market’s big cap counters dragged the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) into the negative with ...

2 years ago | May 20, 2022

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame Bears dominated trades on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) as losses persisted last week led by big ...

2 years ago | May 13, 2022

Real estate investing in Africa and the transition from the ...

Property pundit Kevin Teeroovengadum speaks about the dollarisation of African real estate assets, why he believes it’s ...

The world’s biggest stablecoin drops below its US$1 peg

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin, broke below its US$1 peg yesterday amid panic in the crypto market. The token ...

2 years ago | May 6, 2022

What Russia–Ukraine war means for energy, climate and food

On February 22, Germany scuttled its approval of a newly built gas pipeline from Russia, and is now planning to import ...

2 years ago | April 29, 2022

Africa’s richest man betting $21bn on oil and fertiliser

When Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, decided to construct a refinery in southern Nigeria on a plot of swampland ...

2 years ago | April 15, 2022

Stock Market Rally: The curse of averages

Kudzanai Sharara Taking Stock As of Tuesday April 12, 2022, all major Zimbabwe Stock Exchange indices were trading in ...

Consumer debt rises in SA

Money used to make the world go ’round, but it seems credit took over this role after consumers spent all their own ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame Investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) amassed a cumulative $600 billion last week as bulls ...

Mutual aid in a global food crisis

Stark warnings of a looming global food crisis spark fear as millions of people will likely descend into hunger in the ...

How multinationals avoid taxes in Africa and what should change

In developing countries, and the sub-Saharan region especially, the scale of unmet basic needs is enormous. It is ...

2 years ago | April 14, 2022

Small businesses invade CBDs

Business Writer As Covid-19 pandemic slowed activity with some companies forced to retrench, Zimbabwe witnessed a boom ...

2 years ago | April 8, 2022

Central bank digital currencies and their far-reaching consequences

The rise of the technology that underpins ‘crypto’ will bring about enormous disruption to the present-day ...

Can the IMF do more to help African countries struggling amid the ...

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) general allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) became effective on August ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

The equities market maintained an upward trajectory with all benchmark indicators on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) ...