Four stocks rescued Wall Street last year; we might not be so lucky in 2016
Had it not been for a small group of nifty companies, 2015 would have entered the history books as a terrible year for the US stock market.
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Had it not been for a small group of nifty companies, 2015 would have entered the history books as a terrible year for the US stock market.
Investment guru Warren Buffett is headed for his worst year relative to the rest of the US stock market since 2009.
Historically, interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve have been buy signals for emerging-market assets. This time looks different.
Janet Yellen and the Federal Open Market Committee have finally taken the world’s biggest economy off life support.
Andrew Canter worries that trust in the fiscal prudence of the SA Government has been broken, so potential investors will now “think twice” about local assets.
Richard Russell, who shared his technical analysis with subscribers through the influential Dow Theory Letters since 1958, has died. He was 91.
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report for 2015 shows an improvement globally, while South Africa has climbed one place to 17th.
BHP Billiton may be forced to cut shareholder payouts as a deadly mining disaster in Brazil adds to the company’s woes amid slumping commodity prices and slowing global growth.
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, South African media group Naspers has been the best performing stock in the whole world, edging its 34% Chinese associate TenCent and the world’s most valuable business, Apple Inc.
Demand is so weak among rural Indians making up almost 60% of domestic gold consumption that dealers who stocked up before Diwali are offering some of the biggest discounts in decades.