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.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreRecently, 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.
Read MoreI want to tell you about a mistake I’m watching a lot of income investors make right now, without even realising it. For years, the playbook was simple. Find a stock with a fat dividend yield, buy it, collect the cheque, repeat. Easy money, especially while interest rates kept falling and every income-hungry investor was chasing the same handful of high-yielding names.
Read MoreRecently, South Korea’s stock market did something that almost never happens. The KOSPI (South Korea’s equivalent of the S&P 500) plunged nearly 13% in a single session, triggering an emergency circuit breaker for the second consecutive day. At its lowest point during that session, the index had fallen 44% from the all-time high it had set just one month earlier.
Billions of dollars erased. In a month. From a market that had been one of the hottest on earth. You might be wondering why you should care about South Korean stocks. Here’s why…
South Africa hasn’t just been losing factories. It’s been losing the industries that create skilled jobs, exports and long-term economic growth. For investors, that’s mattered too. A shrinking manufacturing sector has meant fewer quality industrial businesses coming to market, weaker earnings growth across large parts of the JSE and fewer opportunities to invest in companies benefiting from a growing economy.
Read MoreThe US and Japan have just intervened in the currency market together for the first time since 2011. Here’s why it could affect your investments too.
Read MoreRemember DeepSeek? The chinese model that matched OpenAI at a fraction of the cost and wiped $600 billion off Nvidia’s market cap in a single day. Well, it just happened again. At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, a Beijing startup called Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3.
Read MoreWalk into any conversation about safe income investing in South Africa and two names come up immediately: RSA Retail Bonds and fixed deposits. Both are widely regarded as safe. Both pay a fixed interest rate for a fixed term. Both are readily available to retail investors. Most people treat them as essentially interchangeable and pick whichever has the higher number on the day they invest.
That’s the wrong framework. Because once you look at what each product actually pays – after SARS takes its share, at different marginal tax rates, across different terms – the comparison produces results that most investors have never seen laid out clearly.
And there are specific investor profiles where the conventional choice is almost certainly costing money.
You know what a chatbot does. You ask it something. It answers. You ask again. It answers again. The conversation is yours to drive and the AI is a passenger. Now, an AI agent is something entirely different.
Read MoreOn 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?
The extraordinary gains in AI hardware companies may have you wondering whether the sector has entered bubble territory. Chipmakers and equipment suppliers have risen by 500% to 1,000% since the AI boom began, prompting understandable scepticism.
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