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27 Oct 2016

Was the MTBPS enough to avoid a ratings downgrade?

I was rather tired when I headed back to Johannesburg from Pretoria after attending the media lock-up for the National Treasury’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on Thursday. While the Minister of Finance (presently Pravin Gordhan) makes the MTBPS speech in Parliament in Cape Town and most economics writers attend the lock-up there, for...

19 Jul 2016

How reliable are the eNCA/Ipsos polls?

Ahead of the municipal elections on 3 August, eNCA has partnered with Ipsos to measure voter sentiment in Nelson Mandela Bay, Tshwane and Johannesburg. The SA Communist Party recently voiced its concerns about these polls, insisting that the sampling method used was not accurate.

25 Jan 2016

To hike or not to hike? That is the question!

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) will on Thursday, the 28th of January, announce its decision on interest rates.

10 Dec 2015

No positive reaction to Van Rooyen’s appointment

If there has been even a teeny-weeny bit of positive reaction to the appointment of David Van Rooyen as SA’s Minister of Finance, MoneyMarketing hasn’t seen or heard it.

04 Nov 2015

Why markets should care about SA’s water security

Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane recently briefed the media on the state of water security and the current drought in parts of the country.

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