Markets

5 mins ago | March 31, 2023

Open market operations: All you need to know

Blessing Nyatanga In macroeconomics, an open market operation (OMO) is a monetary tool used by the central bank case in ...

SA Reserve Bank hikes interest rates by 50 basis points

Compiled by Helena Wasserman The South Africa Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee hiked interest rates by 50 ...

IMF chief urges faster debt restructurings

The world urgently needs faster and more efficient processes for restructuring debts of vulnerable countries, the ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Business Writer ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE) total market value for the week to Wednesday 29 March rushed 4,71 percent ...

1 week ago | March 24, 2023

Stock Market Weekly Review

Malvern Nkomo The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed positive for the week to Wednesday March 22 with the market ...

Balancing industrial activity vs climate change adaptation

Rufaro Hozheri As the world is currently facing the devastating effects of cyclones, perennial droughts and other ...

The law of demand and supply

Blessing Nyatanga The law of supply and demand combines two fundamental economic principles describing how changes in ...

2 weeks ago | March 17, 2023

Mining industry revenue target: Realistic or over-ambitious?

Rufaro Hozheri There is no doubt that the mining industry is a key pillar of the Zimbabwean economy and if Zimbabwe ...

Customer is always king

Blessing Nyatanga Mahatma Gandhi once alluded that customers are the most important visitors on our premises that is ...

Credit Suisse in crisis taps US$54bn from central bank

Credit Suisse Group AG tapped the Swiss National Bank for as much as 50 billion francs (US$54 billion) and offered to ...

4 weeks ago | March 3, 2023

A buy recommendation with huge upside potential

Rufaro Hozheri Universities in Zimbabwe have often been criticised as glorified high schools that feed students with ...

Agency challenges between multinational companies, subsidiaries

Blessing Nyatanga Multinational corporations (MNCs) are companies that do business in different countries around the ...

Local corporates start embracing sustainability issues

Michael Tome ISSUES to do with Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Sustainability have lately been receiving ...

1 month ago | February 24, 2023

As the tobacco marketing season draws closer . . .

Rufaro Hozheri Did you know, Zimbabwe is among the biggest exporters of unmanufactured tobacco in the world? In 2021, ...

Ideal long-term investments

Blessing Nyatanga The best long-term investments include stocks, funds, bonds and alternative investments. Some of these ...

1 month ago | February 17, 2023

Interventionist or market-based policies?

Blessing Nyatanga Market-based policies focus on the power of the free market and allows the forces of supply and demand ...

Will diaspora mortgages re-ignite the Zim dream?

Rufaro Hozheri The idea of the Zimbabwean Dream speaks to the ability to have access to and own land, and by extension ...

2 months ago | February 10, 2023

The good, bad of credit risk analysis

Blessing Nyatanga Credit risk arises from the potential that an obligor is either unwilling to perform an obligation or ...

Honeymoon short-lived: The visible hand allegedly chocked the bride

Rufaro Hozheri The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) brought hope to many exporting companies, hoping that they could ...

Can Nampak play nicely with angry investors?

It would seem that change is afoot at Nampak at long last — thanks to some much-needed shareholder activism at Africa’s ...