Why businesses are turning to solar
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🔒 New UK prime minister Liz Truss’s inheritance: An economy on its knees – with insight from The Wall Street Journal
The new UK prime minister faces record inflation, a faltering pound, spiralling energy costs and an ill-timed labor shortage.
Is it time to invest in the mining sector?
Portfolio managers of the Investec Commodity Fund explain why you should invest the resources sector, and how they see the sector recovering.
No more tariff increases for Eskom says DA
The Democratic Alliance has said that the National Energy Regulator of SA should decline any more tariff increases for Eskom in 2015.
Chilean copper boom is losing its lustre
The shine may soon come off Chile’s decade-long copper boom as technical and regulatory problems in getting new mines into production highlight just how hard it will be to keep ratcheting up the supply
SA needs its shale gale, launch fracking before the neighbours do
This piece is a reminder of what South Africa loses every time a talented citizen seeks greener pastures abroad. Tim Wood, former head boy of Mooi River’s Treverton College and Employee Number One at Moneyweb, is as fine an online journalist as you’ll find anywhere on earth. His work is deeply researched, enriched with numerous … Read more
SA economy should be sailing; PMI shows it’s actually sliding
The direct impact of the platinum strike is evident in today’s Purchasing Manager’s Index which remains stubbornly in pessimistic territory (below 50). Were it not for that destructive event, now being followed by a potentially even more hurtful strike by 220 000 NUMSA members in the engineering sector, one would expect relatively benign economic conditions. … Read more
UK fracking boom gathers pace – Govt offers tax breaks; oil major Total pays R500m for licences
Where America goes, Britain’s business-friendly Conservative Party Government tends to follow. And as evidence of benefits from the US’s shale gas boom grows, so too is political support for rapidly developing the rich shale gas deposits in the UK. Over the weekend, British Business Minister Michael Fallon published a strong pro-fracking argument in mass market … Read more