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08 Jun 2021

Five questions small businesses should ask before applying for funding

The global economic landscape has undergone a seismic shift since the arrival of Covid-19 over a year ago. However, while the pandemic caused significant business challenges, it also triggered and accelerated many innovations as organisations adapted to change, often simply to survive. The net result of all this innovative thinking has been widespread recognition by business owners of the need to pivot, reposition or expand their operations as a means of securing sustainable growth in the future.

14 Aug 2018

US economy 'performs well in July'

By Gielie de Swardt, Head of Retail Distribution at Sanlam Investments.

31 Mar 2015

A volatile rand

The rand has seen marked volatility this year, starting 2014 at R11.55/USD and weakening to R12.49/USD, with retracement to R11.35/USD in Q1 2015, but mainly recording losses against the US dollar. This is according to Investec economist Annabel Bishop. The weakest rand/US dollar exchange rate was reached in 2001 – R13.75. Bishop says that investors...

13 Mar 2015

SA economy at the brink as 2015 strike season looms

As this year’s wage negotiation season gets underway, an expert warns that another round of destructive wage disputes will have a crippling impact from which job creation, workers themselves, and the economy will not recover soon. This comes after South Africa fared very poorly in terms of labour/employer co-operation, flexibility of wage setting and hiring...

22 Jan 2015

Tone of MPC key to rate expectations

By Nazmeera Moola, economist and strategist, Investec Asset Management Ahead of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) first monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting of the year, the debate is unlikely to focus on a change in interest rates. The big conundrum for the committee is rather going to be the tone they take in this...

20 Jan 2015

Davos, Africa and South Africa

By Mark Appleton – Strategist, Ashburton Investments With more than 2500 of the world’s top leaders including heads of state, central bankers and representatives from most of the world’s top companies Davos remains the premier conference for making contacts and incubating ideas. It certainly remains relevant from an African and South African perspective. So what...

09 Jan 2015

Tough times ahead for SA Inc, but it's better than 2014

By Adrian Saville, CIO of Cannon Asset Managers Over the last twenty years, the single biggest determinant of South Africa’s economic growth has been global growth. Given that South Africa is a small, open economy, this should come as little surprise. However, what this means is that to form an understanding of where the SA...