Markets

2 years ago | January 7, 2022

Search for a better gauge of prosperity than GDP continues

Gross domestic product (GDP), which measures the total output of goods and services in an economy, has flaws when used ...

2 years ago | December 31, 2021

Fruitful year for ZSE investors

Today is the last day of trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) for the 2021 calendar year. What a fruitful year ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Stocks recovered in the last week of year 2021 led by blue chips, helping reverse losses from the previous week.

SA banks’ credit ratings improve

The tide is starting to turn for SA banks regarding credit ratings by international ratings agencies. Rating agencies ...

2021’s worst climate disasters cost US$170bn

Ten of this year’s most destructive weather events cost a combined US$170 billion in damages, according to a new study. ...

2 years ago | December 17, 2021

Five words marked 2021 for world stocks

Much of what’s happened in stock markets this year has related to specific conditions. While most analysts had foreseen ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame A bearish mode persisted on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) as the market faltered during last week ...

2 years ago | December 10, 2021

‘Hamilton not playing fair with Max’

Paris. — Title challenger Max Verstappen has been bullied by seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team ...

2 years ago | December 3, 2021

SA fuel prices in the last 10 years

Johannesburg. — Wednesday, December 1, will see South African petrol prices surging beyond the R20 per litre mark, for ...

‘The Chinese debt trap is a myth’

China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame Equities on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) traded mixed with three of the mainstream indicators ...

Intergenerational social mobility in Africa

Ever since the Transatlantic slave trade ramped up in the 17th century, the African continent has had a tough time ...

Narrowing the divide between black, white farmers in SA

At the dawn of democracy, few probably thought that nearly three decades on, South Africa would still be battling with ...

2 years ago | November 26, 2021

Can IMF money revive Zim’s horticulture?

The Government has picked horticulture as one of the first beneficiaries of part of Zimbabwe’s allocation of US$960 ...

2022 Budget, formalisation of the economy

Walter Mandeya The budget statement presented by the Minister of Finance yesterday contains some interesting measures ...

Withholding tax a slap in the face for ZSE investors

Kudzanai Sharara Taking Stock Investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange will now pay for the sins of speculators ...

2 years ago | November 19, 2021

Stock Market Weekly Review

Bears dominated the equities market last week reversing gains that had been recorded in the previous week on the ...

Foreign exchange rate, ETFs have a relationship

There is a time when having only one of something is the worst situation, having zero of it being better, and having ...

World’s richest family trims emerging market stocks

An investment firm for the Walton family disclosed that it cut exposure to emerging market stocks and bought short-term ...

2 years ago | November 12, 2021

Capital Markets Awards 2021: Oh what a night!

It’s not in our culture for one to beat their own drum, but with the way the inaugural Capital Markets Awards (2021) ...