Market mavericks and mishaps: The 11 big trades of 2023
In a tumultuous year, the stock market witnessed unexpected twists and turns…
In a tumultuous year, the stock market witnessed unexpected twists and turns…
Amidst a robust stock market rally in 2023, retail traders are growing wary of its sustainability.
The continued improvement of the Amazon steamroller has relevance for South Africa’s non-food retail sector, which has only recently started to feel the impact of online competition.
So if investors want to avoid walking into a metaphorical tree today, I would suggest they should think about at least five issues that have often been excluded from models and balance sheets before: tech change, the environment, war, health and the political culture of business. All now matter.
Big money managers missed out on the rally in Nvidia and spent the past two weeks catching up, racing to amass shares of the US company that has become a go-to bet on artificial intelligence.
A collapse in the Rand and a sharp fall in local asset prices brought the contestants in the R1m Local v Offshore Challenge much closer together.
The quiet in March and April proved to be the calm before May’s storm with all hell breaking loose on investment markets – and any Rand-related asset taking a hammering.
There’s been plenty of good news in the past month for the BizNews model share portfolios, boosted by the surge for Nvidia.
Nvidia’s blowout sales forecast has set the Silicon Valley company on course to become the first chipmaker to be valued at more than $1tn, as booming demand for its artificial intelligence processors drove semiconductor stocks higher on Thursday.
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.