Emerging markets in currency battle as Dollar gains strength
Emerging markets in Asia are bracing for a currency showdown amidst the dollar’s ascent, with central banks gearing up for intervention.
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Rand struggles against emerging market surge and domestic headwinds
The Rand faces a rare setback with a 0.3% decline against the dollar this month, bucking the trend of its emerging-market counterparts.
Forex in SA – Ignorance is expensive, certainly not bliss
Arno von Helden is the driver of Standard Bank’s revolutionary in-house fintech called Shyft, a business that’s democratising the foreign exchange market for retail investors.
Catch 22 for SARB policymakers – an erosion of basic monetary policy
Colleen Goko highlights a severe crisis that South Africa is facing which is challenging a fundamental principle of monetary policy.
Cyril’s Rubicon? RW Johnson on arms-to-Russia torpedo for SA’s motor industry, AGOA, ARV supplies.
South Africa’s alleged supply of arms to Russia in contravention of global sanctions has massive negative implications, according to the country’s foremost political scientist RW Johnson.
🔒 Energy, chips, Taiwan: Flashpoints for 2023 in a fractured world
The new year brings an era of power rivalries and the redrawing of the global economy map as increasing numbers of world flashpoints ensue.
Best of 2022: Christo Wiese wins back dollar billionaire status
Shoprite founder and one of South Africa’s most revered businessmen, Christo Wiese, has won back billionaire status (in dollar terms).
Ramaphosa victory – good for the rand
With Ramaphosa as ANC president secured this seems to have reflected positively with the rand strengthened by more than 2% against the dollar
Dollar vs Pound: a history of ups and downs
A strong US dollar is ending 2022 at near-parity with a wobbling British pound. What does it all mean for South African investors?
🔒 ‘Huge, Missing and Growing:’ $65 trillion in dollar debt sparks concern
A lack of information appears to be making it more difficult for policy makers to anticipate the next financial crisis.