Markets

3 years ago | February 23, 2021

NPLs significantly down, but at a cost to economic growth

Zimbabwe banks seem to have struck the right chord if the quality of their loan book for the year ended December 31, ...

3 years ago | February 19, 2021

The terrifying collapse of SA’s newspapers

South Africa’s Audit Bureau of Circulations data for the fourth quarter of 2020 is harrowing: there will be no rebound ...

Shifting away from coal

A photograph in the entrance hall at Komati Power Station shows the plant in better times, its nine generating units ...

Investors unpack Africa’s top opportunities

Urbanisation is creating greater demand for packaged food in Nigeria.

Will China help, hurt the AfCFTA?

African countries want to trade more with their partners on the continent — through the African Continental Free Trade ...

3 years ago | February 12, 2021

Investing comes with responsibility

Kudzanai Sharara Taking Stock “We wanted to do a soft launch today (February 9, 2020) and announce it a day or two ...

nine traits of future-ready companies

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has executives everywhere hopeful for the pandemic’s end. Some are now asking how their ...

African startup investments fall

Funding for African startups slowed for the first time after nearly 10 years of growth as investors in the fledgling ...

3 years ago | February 5, 2021

Stock Market Weekly Review

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange once again recorded strong gains for the week to Wednesday, February 3, 2020.

3 years ago | January 22, 2021

Gold’s allure set to continue

Uncertainty around the global economy will not only support gold as an asset class but also drive consumption of the ...

Bulls dominate ZSE trades

Bulls dominated trades on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) offsetting the losses that were incurred during the first ...

Yellen gets Wall Street buzzing about 50-year US treasuries

All it took was a non-committal comment from Janet Yellen to persuade Treasury traders there’s a chance the US will ...

3 years ago | January 8, 2021

What will 2021 bring for bitcoin?

2020 was certainly an unpredictable year. But while the past year has been a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows in the ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) was weighed down by selling pressure during the first week of the year as demand ...

3 years ago | January 1, 2021

Mercedes, Jaguar and Porsche made the worst luxury cars of 2020

The problem with writing an annual retrospective on the luxury cars that should have been better in 2020 is that the ...

How Africa’s unbanked stand to score from digital advancement

Population growth in Africa tends to outpace that of the rest of the world. In fact, by 2050 the population will likely ...

Bitcoin faces US$600bn catalyst

The Bitcoin price has seen a stunning rally throughout 2020, rising from  US$3 600 in March to over US$19 000 in ...

3 years ago | December 21, 2020

2020: The year of the stock market

With the exception of the dark period, where the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange was forced to halt trading for more than a ...

3 years ago | December 18, 2020

Who can investors listen to when everybody’s wrong?

The year 2020 will be remembered for any number of things, including how wrong so many were about so much. From the ...

Taking stock of the economy

The world suffered a dramatic upheaval this year. Economies were uprooted. Informal businesses closed shop. Some will ...