Bitcoin looks for direction after four straight weekly losses
Bitcoin ended Sunday down 2.6% for the week, erasing a small bounce that briefly took it close to $71 000 on Saturday.
What national FMD disaster means for food and farmers
Foot-and-mouth crisis pushing pork prices higher. Sona signals tougher tax enforcement ahead. And SA winemaker claims global chenin blanc crown again.
City obtains court order to stop new shacks on District Six land
State-owned land is reserved for land claims that will take several years to process.
Telkom grows earnings as mobile and fibre drive revenue mix shift
Mobile data users climb nearly 30% as group Ebitda rises 8.4%.
Consumers steadier day to day, but still wary of the future
Nedbank executive for financial wellness and advisory Dr Frank Magwegwe reports an overall improvement in working South Africans’ financial health for a third consecutive year.
Oil steady with focus on geopolitical risk before Iran talks
Brent for April settlement was little changed at $67.61 a barrel at 8:05 a.m. in London.
Carry trade, commodities make EM currencies more stable than G-7
Concerns over US exceptionalism and the country’s fiscal path have also prompted some investors to look beyond the dollar.
Gold slips as traders book profits after mild US inflation data
Spot gold fell 1% to $4 991.75 an ounce as of 11:10 a.m. in Singapore.
Steenhuisen warns DA about exiting GNU
The DA won 22% of the vote in the last national elections in 2024, and its internal polling shows it now has about 30% support.
US economic data looking strong
A look at January’s steadier US inflation print and what the earnings season is signalling, as well as how the bond market reacted to last week’s State of the Nation Address.