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America, f*ck yeah!

America has used its advantages brilliantly, often brutally. There is much to admire, celebrate and decry as it turns 250

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Flee to ‘safe’ South Africa when Trump catches ‘feelings’

As Donald Trump starts a war on ‘a feeling’, the world is looking increasingly unstable. Luckily South Africa is a safe haven. Or is it?

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Smart trade for the Gulf meltdown: don’t look 

Local analysts and fund managers share how to navigate markets after the Middle East war drove the JSE 5.5% lower

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Gold to breach $7,000? Standard Bank’s expert reckons so …

The ‘View from the Room’ session at Standard Bank’s African Markets Conference pitted the audience’s economic projections against those of experts

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Now the party is over, who washes the G20 dishes? 

The G20 event was marked most by US and Chinese absentia. These absences send a message – that South Africa is ignorable, despite the pomp.

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How South Africa’s funds fared in tariff-tossed April

April was a wild month for investors. So how did South Africa’s hedge funds perform? Not as well as you might think

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Purple group: where’s the market love?

A series of record-beating customer deposits has helped Purple Group post a threefold surge in half-year profit. Yet the stock remains in the doldrums

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Stocks to weather the tariff crash

Not panicking seems the best way to survive market crashes. But here are a few market ideas to weather the Trumpian tariff fallout

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Half the South Africa fund in four stocks? Yep, that’s John Biccard

Legendary value investor John Biccard tells us what he’s buying, what he’s sold, and what he makes of the new world order

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Coulda, shoulda, didn’t …

With ‘Trumpflation’ looming, South Africa’s Reserve Bank has again kept rates on hold – even as cuts are long overdue, say critics

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With a US recession around the corner, where are the adults?  

There will be a recession in the US, not because of inflation, Covid or the Ukraine – but because of the uncertainty Trump has created for businesses

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Behind Trump’s $1bn energy blow to South Africa

It seemed catastrophic when Donald Trump cut $1bn in funding for South Africa’s just energy transition. But it is far from existential

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Diplomacy is not ‘The Apprentice’, Donald

The blunt approach taken by Donald ‘The Apprentice’ Trump is getting results – but true diplomacy with lasting solutions must be a lot more subtle

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Call in the diplomatic SWAT team

South Africa’s high-stakes diplomatic gamble: can a delegation to the US defuse tensions?

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Fear and tariffs at the G20

Donald Trump threw a grenade into South Africa’s first meeting of the G20 finance ministers, with a threat of 25% tariffs for Europe