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IBM just lost $68.8 billion in a single day! Here’s what it’s really telling you…
On Tuesday 14 July 2026, IBM had the worst trading day in its 115-year history!
The company’s shares fell 25.21%, and in a single session, $68.8 billion of market value evaporated.
Before markets opened the following morning, the question in every investment conversation was the same: is this a buying opportunity or a warning sign?
What the JSE’s Two-Tier Reform means for small caps
In September 2024, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority approved a two-tier reform – the JSE’s split of its Main Board into two segments – Prime and General – with simplified Listings Requirements taking full effect in early 2026.
Why liquidity is the hidden tax on every small cap return…
Every investor knows what brokerage costs. It’s on the contract note, in rand and cents, impossible to miss. What almost no retail investor calculates, and what can dwarf that brokerage fee many times over, is liquidity cost. The price you actually pay to get into a small cap, and the price you actually receive to get out of one, when very few shares change hands on any given day.
Digital Sovereignty: The investment theme hidden inside the trade war
What digital sovereignty means and why it matters to investors
Digital sovereignty sounds like a policy term. In practice, it’s a procurement decision made by governments, repeated at scale, across dozens of countries simultaneously.
It means…
The Hidden Forces Behind Markets: Why Volatility Suddenly Explodes
Over the last three weeks, we’ve explored some of the hidden forces that drive markets.
We started by learning that prices don’t move simply because a stock is cheap or expensive. They move because of liquidity. When there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall.
We then looked at how institutional money influences markets. Large funds can spend weeks or even months building or reducing positions, creating sustained buying or selling pressure that often drives long-term trends.
Last week, we explored why gaps happen overnight. New information changes what investors are willing to pay for a share, and the opening auction process helps establish a new equilibrium price before the market opens.
But what happens when the market can’t easily agree on that new equilibrium price?
What happens when thousands of investors suddenly realise they are positioned for the wrong outcome?
That’s when volatility explodes.
The market thinks the metals bull market is over. Here’s why I’m not convinced.
The biggest mistake investors could make right now is assuming the precious metals bull market is over. Gold has fallen more than 20% from its January highs. Silver has lost over 40%. Platinum has suffered a similarly painful correction.
The biggest tech companies in the world are raising cash – Should you be worried?
When a company raises cash by issuing new shares, it’s usually treated as bad news. Dilution. Desperation. A signal that something is wrong. But what if the largest, most profitable tech companies in the world are all doing it at the same time, and the reason isn’t weakness, but the opposite?
How to stock pick in South Africa’s Two-Speed Economy
Recently, Stats SA delivered a number that made for a good headline: South Africa’s GDP grew 0.5% quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2026 – ahead of the 0.3% economists expected, and the sixth consecutive quarter of growth.
Zero-Tariff policy for South Africa!?
South Africa recently received one of the most significant trade gifts in its post-apartheid history.
China, the country’s largest trading partner by a wide margin, has implemented a zero-tariff policy covering 100% of tariff lines for South African exports. Agricultural goods, processed products, beneficiated minerals and manufactured items can now enter the world’s second-largest consumer market without paying a cent in import duties.
Why AI company, Broadcom crashed 14%…
After markets closed, Broadcom – the seventh-largest company in the world by market cap – posted what it described as “record revenue, record operating profit, and record free cash flow.” And then its stock fell 14%. That reaction says more about investor psychology in the current AI market than it does about Broadcom’s business. Understanding the gap between those two things is one of the most important skills an investor can develop right now.
The Hidden Forces Behind Markets: How Institutional Money Actually Moves Markets
While retail traders make up part of the markets, the biggest moves are often driven by institutions. Pension funds, hedge funds, asset managers, insurers and investment funds control billions of dollars and can hold positions that are larger than the daily trading volume of some companies.
Skin in the Game: What director shareholding really signals on the JSE, and how to read it…
When a JSE small-cap CEO buys shares in the open market with their own money, they’re telling you something no analyst report can. Here’s how to find it, how to read it, and why it’s one of the most reliable signals available to a private investor.
El Niño: The weather event that could reshape your food bill, portfolio, and Southern Africa’s future
In 1877, the rains never came. Across huge swaths of the world – southern Africa, India, China, Brazil – crops failed. Rivers dried up. Food shortfalls spiralled into one of the deadliest catastrophes in modern history. Historians estimate that tens of millions perished as harvests collapsed on multiple continents simultaneously.
Most people today have never heard of it.
But scientists now believe the same type of event – a Super El Niño – may be forming again. And the latest data suggests this one could be historically stronger than anything since that 1877 event.
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