GLOBAL
Sustainability is a hot topic today due to increasing awareness of climate change and inequality, among other pressing issues...
Leanne Keddie 3 Feb 2021
UNITED STATES
For people who are still new to investing, it is important to understand some basic investment options. Financial instruments can help people know where to put their hard-earned cash at minimal risk...
SOUTH AFRICA
E-commerce will permanently benefit from people wanting to, or being forced to, socially distance themselves. One of the sub-sectors in this space is online grocery shopping...
Ross Jenvey 22 Sep 2020
UNITED STATES
After multiple warnings, Moody's has finally downgraded the South African economy to Ba1 status. This is extremely negative for the country, and prospects moving forward...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 9 Apr 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
Capitalism is in trouble - at least judging by recent polls...
Elizabeth Schmidt 3 Feb 2020
GLOBAL
One way to count the cost of the Wuhan coronavirus is by how many people catch it, and then how many die. Another is the direct financial costs of public health measures to treat those infected and contain its spread...
Ilan Noy 30 Jan 2020
GLOBAL
We live in a world threatened by numerous existential risks that no country or organisation can resolve alone, such as climate change, extreme weather and the coronavirus...
Christopher Michaelson 28 Jan 2020
GLOBAL
The alarm is sounding again. The Asia financial markets were reasonably calm about the new coronavirus until the news of the lockdown of the whole city of Wuhan in China on 23 January...
Zheng Wang 27 Jan 2020
GLOBAL
Oil prices shot up following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, rising more than $5 per barrel to more than $71 (£54) on January 6, its highest level since the Saudi oil refinery attack last September...
Mueid Al Raee 15 Jan 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
The world is on the brink of a recession, if all the breathless headlines are to be believed. So why are US stocks near all-time highs?
UNITED STATES
In 1971, The US President Richard Nixon announced the end of the Bretton Woods system, which pegged the value of the US Dollar at $35 per ounce. That marked the beginning of a floating monetary exchange, in which currencies are able to fluctuate freely...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 19 Aug 2019
GLOBAL
The UN recognises 180 currencies worldwide as legal tender, all of them issued by nation states. It does not recognise cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in this way, even if communities of enthusiasts have been treating them as a means of exchange for over a decade now...
Gavin Brown 27 Jun 2019
SOUTH AFRICA
Publicis Machine recently received three honourable mentions at the global Pearl Impact Awards for their work on the Sanlam Reality account. We asked chief content officer Sarah Browning-de Villiers what it takes to succeed in the content marketing space...
Jessica Tennant 18 Jun 2019
GLOBAL
Litigation funding is becoming a mainstream asset class with the market set to double in the next five years, predicts Dilip N Massand of Legal Ventures...
