ICYMI: Structured product investing – Clear outcomes & risk profiles
Mitigating risk in uncertain markets: Safeguarding capital with structured products and unlocking the potential of enhanced returns.
Mitigating risk in uncertain markets: Safeguarding capital with structured products and unlocking the potential of enhanced returns.
Foreign investors have been buying South African banking stocks on the back of the cheapest valuations relative to emerging-market peers since 2011.
Continued political instability that hurt investor confidence and saw South Africa’s economy expand at the slowest rate since 2009 last year could threaten a recovery in 2017, economists said.
We hope for the best on SA’s credit rating. But as with the Springboks against Wales tomorrow, it is hard not to fear the worst.
Jaw-jaw is always preferable to war-war. So it is heartening for the South African economy that its two key protagonists, Zuma and Gordhan, met for an extended discussion yesterday.
Downgrading of the national credit rating to “Junk” is still on the cards. But it has now been postponed until early 2017.
South Africa may be struggling to turn around its moribund economy against the backdrop of a political crisis but Lesetja Kganyago, the central bank governor, remains upbeat.
President Zuma says the collaboration between govt, labour and business to rescue the country from possible downgrade and stabilize the economy is starting to bear fruit.
South African President Jacob Zuma denied being influenced by anyone in the appointment of cabinet ministers, responding to allegations by his own deputy finance minister that a wealthy family close to Zuma offered him the job of finance minister.
The Hawks said finance minister Pravin Gordhan may face legal action for not cooperating with an investigation of surveillance by the revenue service, escalating a public row and rattling the rand and bonds.