Markets

2 years ago | November 12, 2021

Inflation threatens to return to US politics

“Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago?” Ronald Reagan asked days before ...

King sinks Impala’s plan

Impala Platinum Holdings’s decade-long quest to buy a smaller rival that owns assets key to prolonging the life of its ...

Farmers take on ‘post-apocalyptic’ food crisis

For Australian cattle farmer Jody Brown, the most chilling evidence of drought is the silence. Trees stand still, the ...

2 years ago | November 5, 2021

Caledonia’s Vic Falls Exchange listing gathers momentum

Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc’s proposed Victoria Falls Exchange (VFEX) listing gathers momentum following approvals ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Bulls returned to market extending gains during the week which saw all the indices close pointing northwards on gains in ...

Africa seeks US$1,3t climate finance

A key African climate group called for a 13-fold increase in finance from rich nations to help poorer countries make the ...

How to make big, old firms act fast

Like other CEOs, Cees ’t Hart instinctively knew that the Covid-19 pandemic required him to manage Denmark’s Carlsberg ...

2 years ago | October 29, 2021

Africa debt trap allegations false: China

China said it was false to claim that its lending practices have pushed African nations into debt traps, blaming a host ...

Tanganda will lift ZSE, shareholders’ value

Every weekday, around 7:15am, on Capitalk FM, they play a Tanganda tea advert. The advert’s pay-off line says, “it lifts ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Losses in selected heavyweights saw the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) close the week to October 27, 2021 with marginal ...

Global approach to data in digital age vital

Companies around the world are engaged in a digital data gold rush, panning the digital economy for our personal data, ...

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos now worth US$500bn

The combined net worth of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos approached US$500 billion on Wednesday, fuelled by the unrelenting ...

Bitcoin concentrated in few hands, study finds

Bitcoin’s surging popularity hasn’t changed one of its original attributes. Its ownership is still concentrated in just ...

2 years ago | October 22, 2021

A paradox that is the ZSE rally

Kudzanai Sharara-Taking Stock Ask anyone why the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has been bullish for the past two years ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame Market rally on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) continued in the mid-week session, sustained mainly by ...

SA’s agric sector a saving grace during the pandemic

Wandile Sihlobo The agricultural sector’s gross value-added expanded by 13,4 percent year-on-year in 2020, supported by ...

3 years ago | October 15, 2021

The bulls are out to play, here’s why

The last couple of weeks since mid-September have been very exciting for stock market investors.

World’s most Instagrammed low-maintenance plants

House plants decorate the home by welcoming greenery, colour and life to dull spaces.

Targeting higher inflation: The new panic in town

The Covid-19 pandemic caused economies around the world to slump. Governments reacted by issuing stay-at-home orders ...

3 years ago | October 8, 2021

Fixing food finance to heal planet

The performance of the global food system over the last century has been extraordinary. Farmers, processors, traders, ...