Gold just smashed through $3,500 an ounce, its highest level ever. That kind of move always grabs attention, but the real question is why traders and investors are piling into the metal. Usually, gold shines when interest rates are low because it isn’t competing with high yields on bonds. It’s also a classic “risk-off” hedge when stock markets turn down. But this latest surge may be telling us something different.
Read MoreMahube Infrastructure and Curro are completely different businesses. One is focussed on renewable energy investments, and the other is one of SA’s largest private school operators. Yet they share something in common… It’s not that they’re small caps listed on the JSE. Rather, it’s the recent news of potential buyout offers, which sent their share prices surging 34% and 50%, respectively.
Read MoreWesizwe Platinum (JSE: WEZ) platinum mine has been years in the making – but the story has lurched from one setback to another. Investors have been promised a world-class platinum operation, yet delivery has been slow, messy, and financially draining. And to make matters worse, its share price is currently suspended from trading on the JSE – but as I’ll explain that soon could be reversed.
Read MoreIn early June, Jubilee Metals received an unsolicited, conditional offer to acquire its SA chrome and PGM operations. At first glance, the logic behind accepting seemed straightforward: management wants to pivot away from SA’s volatile PGM and chrome markets, with all their operating headaches, and instead double down on copper in Zambia. Copper is hot, with long-term fundamentals tied to electrification and grid investment, after all.
Read MoreYou’ll often hear me say a stock is overvalued or undervalued in Red Hot Penny Shares. Or I might say something like: “The valuation of this stock is R10 – but it’s trading at R5.” So, what exactly is valuation? How is it calculated? And most importantly… what should you actually do with that figure?
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