The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Quantitative easing will become appropriate when interest rates are at the zero lower bound and there is deflation risk, Kganyago is reported as saying.
13th August 2020
Improved production across all operating segments and higher precious metal prices have boosted Sibanye-Stillwater profitability.
14th August 2020
Months into the pandemic, exhausted people are dropping video call facades, and are no longer pretending there is a line between work and private life.
14th August 2020
Magnus Heystek says a rudimentary calculation shows that the value of many South Africans’ pension benefits declined by 30-40% in the past five years.
14th August 2020
The strategy shows, quite clearly, that the tobacco giant puts much thought, energy and money into winning a political game, building political allies and completing a “political power map”.
14th August 2020
Since being shut down five weeks ago, the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange reopened to a poor performance, with stocks slumping as trading resumed.
13th August 2020
In these excerpts from Tim Modise's Noontime webinar, the focus is on procedural red-tape and how this often makes the legal process ‘excruciatingly slow’.
13th August 2020
Dan Nicholl recaps on his lunch with former banker Michael Jordaan, who is still cautiously optimistic despite the myriad challenges South Africa faces.
14th August 2020
Intellidex found that wealthy Africans were most concerned about political risk and see it as a significant threat to the preservation of their assets.
13th August 2020
Kganyago dismissed suggestions the central bank’s inflation-targeting mandate be broadened and that it undertake QE to support SA's ailing economy.
13th August 2020
South Africa’s biggest cement maker PPC is considering a rights issue of about R1.25bn to refinance both its domestic and international operations.
13th August 2020
Rand Merchant Bank has been appointed as an adviser to help the government assess offers for stakes in its insolvent national airline SAA.
13th August 2020
In Episode 72 of Inside Covid-19, Discovery’s founders Adrian Gore and Barry Swartzberg share their thoughts and we also hear Prof Francis Petersen.
13th August 2020
Douglas Parker presents the Covid-19 pandemic in pictures and the countries experiencing the heaviest burden in new cases over the past 24 hours.
13th August 2020
In Episode 71 of Inside Covid-19, after Tuesday’s announcement from Russia that it has perfected a Covid-19 antidote, lots of progress from elsewhere.
12th August 2020
In Episode 70 of Inside Covid-19, some smart advice from Discovery's chief dietician who explains what to eat to blunt the coronavirus sting.
11th August 2020
So far this year, investors in gold and silver have made out like bandits, especially when you compare the returns of the two metals with those of stocks.
13th August 2020
Professor Emeritus in Critical Care at Wits University, Guy Richards, talks to BizNews about what it was like when he contracted Covid-19.
13th August 2020
BizNews talks to Dr Noluthando Nematswerani about the Covid-19 vaccine process in SA, and what she thinks about the newly-developed Russian vaccine
13th August 2020
Terry Harris, head dietician at Discovery Vitality, tells us which healthy foods we should eat to give us the best chance against the virus.
13th August 2020
The current global economic and market situation, created by the impact of Covid-19 and governments’ response, has driven investors to gold.
6th August 2020
Crowdfunding involves getting many people to club together to fund a project or venture; this alternative type of finance is also a form of crowdsourcing.
31st July 2020
Creating a post-retirement investment portfolio requires a completely different mindset to the strategies you may have used to build up your nest-egg.
28th July 2020
Before you put your cash into the latest, shiny deal, make sure you know everything you can about the world of property investment, says Scott Picken.
27th July 2020
A key insight is that activity has increased in the logistics real estate sector in the last 12 months as online shopping habits have become more widespread.
11th August 2020
Having assisted over 300 South African families, the American Dream team know their way around the EB5 requirements, says Pam Golding International.
4th August 2020
Covid-19 is an opportunity to end the war with nature. It's a moment to be humble and realise our finitude in a wondrous and infinite natural order.
29th July 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on many businesses and Nedbank Business Banking wants to help as many as possible during this situation.
7th July 2020