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The Rand just hit its weakest level since July – Here’s why and what to do about it
Last week, the rand slipped past R16.60 to the dollar – its weakest level since July.
If you’ve been following South African financial news, you might be tempted to reach for the usual explanations. Political uncertainty. Load-shedding. The current account deficit. The structural weaknesses that South Africa carries like a weight around its neck.
Could Wesizwe Platinum become a multi-bagger for investors?
A reader emailed me this week, and I could feel the excitement coming off the screen. His argument for Wesizwe Platinum (JSE: WEZ) went like this…
Understanding Risk: More Than Just Losing Money
Risk is one of those investment words everyone uses, but few stop to define. Is risk the chance of losing money? Is it volatility? Or is it simply the uncertainty of not knowing what happens next? The answer matters because once we understand risk, we can measure it and, more importantly, understand where it is coming from.
How to compare two Structured Products to determine which one is the better investment?
I recently received an excellent review of two Structured Products done by Finova Capital. They understand the complex details and compare the solutions to determine which is better for you. Two products in focus this month were the Discovery Capital 200+ (closing 10 September) and the Momentum Digital Structured Note (closing 18 September). They may look like close cousins. They aren’t.
The Most Dangerous Words in Investing: “This Time Is Different”
Markets have a funny way of making old investing mistakes feel completely new. A new technology arrives, prices surge, investors pile in and suddenly the usual rules no longer seem to apply.
AI’s next big money-maker may not be AI at all… It could be renting out the computing power everyone desperately needs
Something unusual is happening in the AI race. The world’s biggest technology companies are spending staggering amounts building AI data centres packed with the most advanced computing hardware on the planet.
It’s NOT the petrol price you should be worried about… It’s diesel!
From Wednesday 2 September 2026, something took effect that will work its way through the South African economy for months. The wholesale price of the premium grade of diesel rose over 11% – pushing the inland wholesale price back above R30 a litre in Gauteng for the first time since May.
Signals from the Market: Putting It All Together
Over the past four weeks, we’ve explored the three pillars of market analysis: technical, fundamental and sentiment. Fundamental analysis tells us what is happening inside the business. Technical analysis tells us what is happening to the price. Sentiment tells us what investors think and feel about both. On their own, each provides useful information. But when the three start telling the same story, things get interesting.
Why do so few JSE small caps pay dividends…
A Red Hot Penny Shares subscriber wrote in last week with a question I’ve been wanting to address for a while. They noticed something that’s been quietly frustrating income-focused investors for the past few years. Where have all the small cap dividend payers gone?
The debasement trade is back! Here’s what it means for investors….
If someone was slowly, quietly shrinking the value of every rand note in your wallet – not stealing it, just making each note worth a little less every single year – what would you do with your money? You’d move it out of cash. You’d put it into something they can’t shrink. Something with a fixed supply. Something that governments can’t print more of on a Tuesday afternoon when the budget looks bad. That instinct has a name in financial markets. It’s called the debasement trade. And in 2026, it has become one of the most important and most misunderstood investment themes on the planet.
Signals from Sentiment Analysis
We’ve already explored technical analysis, which helps us understand the market’s medium-term direction, and fundamental analysis, which helps us estimate a company’s long-term value. Now we come to the final, and perhaps most fascinating, pillar of investing: sentiment.
Signals from Fundamental Analysis
While technical analysis studies what the market is doing, fundamental analysis asks a different question: why? Instead of focusing on price movements, it examines the underlying business to determine whether it is becoming stronger or weaker, and whether its current share price reflects its true value.
Unitree, a robot company, most investors have never heard of went public – and it could change how you think about the next decade
Recently, shares in a company called Unitree started trading in Shanghai. You’ve probably never heard of it. But there’s a decent chance you’ve seen its robots without knowing it. The ones doing backflips, running like sprinters, even throwing kung fu kicks in viral videos that rack up millions of views.
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