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The all share had lost 0.23% in early afternoon trade, and the top 40 was 0.24% weaker, but gold miners gained 2.4%

Oil inventories remain bloated as demand weakens with the US recordeding more than 60,500 new coronavirus cases in a single day

Safe-haven assets are in demand again as record-setting US coronavirus cases unsettle the  markets

Record spikes of infections globally, particularly in the US, put pressure on risk appetite

Graeme Körner fom Körner Perspective and Gary Booysen from Rand Swiss talk to Business Day TV

Andile Buthelezi from Sentio Capital talks to Business Day TV about his stock pick of the day

The ratings agency, which has SA one level below investment grade with a negative outlook, does not anticipate an upgrade in the near future

Oanda’s Craig Erlam talks to Business Day TV about how emerging markets are dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic

The ANC’s paper comes as business also lays out its economic plans

Manufacturing data for April was worse than the largest declines during the financial crisis in 2009 — and now, this

The committee is not convinced that the Treasury can reach its target of a primary budget surplus by 2023/2024, and wants a more realistic forecast

The Corporation for Public Deposits, which invests on behalf of the public sector, has received a huge guarantee

Marqeta, the US payment card issuing start-up whose investors include Goldman Sachs Group, is seeking to hire investment banks.

Manufacturing output in South Africa tumbled by nearly 50% year-on-year in April.

The ANC’s Economic Transformation Committee suggested that pension funds take over some of the assets of the indebted state-owned power utility Eskom.

The Minerals Council SA is concerned about the countrywide shortage of hospital beds.

Santam, has stuck to its guns and insisted that the Covid-19 lockdown and not the pandemic itself had caused businesses to suffer losses.

Government said it was concerned pilots at troubled SAA were seeking benefits which were much higher than those of other employees.

Asian shares were set to open mostly lower on Friday as record-breaking new coronavirus cases and deaths in several US states stoked concerns that new lockdowns could derail the economic recovery, and investors looked forward to earnings season. The post Asian shares set to slip as coronavirus concerns weigh appeared first on SABC News - […]

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) have welcomed the decision by the Labour Appeal Court to dismiss the appeal launched by the SAA Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs).  The practitioners wanted the court to set aside a Labour Court's decision, barring them from proceeding with […]

The High Court in Pretoria has granted the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA) permission to appeal government’s ban on the sale of cigarettes during lockdown. The application will be heard on July 15. The post FITA granted permission to appeal tobacco sales ban appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, […]

Foreign mine workers have begun returning to South African mines, though at a slower rate than hoped, as the industry rebuilds output after the easing of the coronavirus lockdown, the Minerals Council said on Thursday. The post Foreign mineworkers return to South African mines after lockdown appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special […]

More than 700 employees of a manufacturing company in Mkhuhlu near Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, claim to have been dismissed from work for self-isolating. The post ‘Employees fired for self-isolating’ appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..

The South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) has lashed out at retail giant Massmart for using coronavirus to retrench workers. The post Union accuses Massmart of using coronavirus to retrench workers appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's […]

Microsoft is adding a virtual auditorium view to its Teams communication platform in a bid to make video meetings feel more natural during lockdown.

Eskom will implement load shedding for the first time in nearly four months, the state-owned utility said on Friday, as plant breakdowns reduced its ability to meet demand.

There is immense value in investing into an architecture that’s elastic enough to embrace the technology that lies in the future, according to JSE chief information officer Hendrik Kotzé.

Britain is betting that satellite operator OneWeb will help it boldly go into a post-Brexit era. But it faces formidable challenges to complete a working constellation and rebuild a collapsed venture.

Tesla appears on the verge of joining the S&P 500, a major accomplishment for CEO Elon Musk that would unleash a flood of new demand for the electric car maker's shares.

The economic transformation committee of the ANC has suggested that pension funds take over some of the assets of indebted state-owned power company Eskom.

Technology stocks have performed remarkably well in recent years and particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. John Christy and Stanley Lu, from our offshore...

We humans are fallible creatures who suffer from several cognitive biases. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example, Rory Kutisker-Jacobson highlights how...

MTN has underperformed the FTSE/JSE All Share Index (ALSI) significantly over the last five years. It has been one of our largest underweights compared to ou...

The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in an urgent and massive need for humanitarian and economic support for communities and enterprises, and the philanthropic...

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When I wrote my comments in mid-April, we were just about one month into lockdown. We have now passed 100 days, with the health and economic crises leaving a...

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To mark Independence Day we share Grammar Check’s infographic highlighting 63 differences between British and American English. Source – Grammar Check The post Brits vs Yanks: 63 Differences Between British & American English [Infographic] appeared first on Red Website Design Blog.