12 April 2018
EasyEquities clients can look forward to an attractive new addition to their investment options. Subject to the usual caveats and market conditions al...
6 April 2018
With April underway, topics concerning us all included a higher rate of VAT in South Africa, a trade skirmish started by the Trump White House, and te...
29 March 2018
AMAZON: AT A GLANCE Amazon has more than 304 million users, and 3 billion products selling on their 11 marketplaces – and every day, 1.3 million new p...
29 March 2018
In my recent strategy note on banks (see “Mind the Gap” dated 20 March) I assessed only the big four banks, excluding Capitec as it has different char...
28 March 2018
All supermarket trolleys are not created equal, and a street turf battle has waged for some years to get more of the consumers’ grocery wallet in hard...
23 March 2018
Naspers’s sale of Tencent shares in the amount of 190 million, which is 2% of the 9,5 billion in issue, will realise around $10 billion. This is the t...
20 March 2018
The majority of us have bank accounts with the “big four” banks and, grudgingly, swallow debits for all manner of charges for transactions and for ser...
14 March 2018
What was noteworthy about the 2017 annual result was a return to a “progressive” dividend policy, the sort of policy that hit a buffer once earnings s...
13 March 2018
For many South Africans, polony, among other processed meats, is a staple foodstuff that is affordable and nutritious. The presence of a bacterial pat...