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Know what’s happening in the markets… Why it’s happening and never miss another investing opportunity again.
Complexity VS Panic – Why the 2026 market will reward a different kind of thinking
In March 2020, the single best investment skill you could have had was courage. The market had collapsed. Everything was cheap. The only question was whether you could override the fear response long enough to buy. 2026 is different. The market isn’t in freefall. Most assets aren’t universally cheap. Nor are the opportunities obvious.
Why Do Companies Buy Back Shares?
Over the past two weeks, we’ve explored why companies list on the stock market and how they decide whether to reinvest profits or pay dividends. But dividends aren’t the only way companies can return value to shareholders. Increasingly, companies are choosing to buy back their own shares.
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?
Choosing Your Style: A Deeper Look at the Four Traditional Investing Approaches
Last week we started the conversation around different investing strategies, specifically focusing on the four main ‘styles’ of investing that exist. This week we’re looking at these styles in more detail.
Meta’s billion-dollar “TPU” move could ignite a new AI arms race!
Back in June, I wrote a MoneyMorning article titled “This could soon become the hottest AI chip on the market!”. It was all about Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) – a custom-built chip designed for one thing and one thing only: running AI models at lightning speed. Here’s what I said then…
Investing Strategies: Value investing and the power of mispricing
Some investing strategies are timeless – and this one has quietly created fortunes for the world’s greatest investors. Benjamin Graham invented it. Buffett and Munger perfected it. Sir John Templeton executed it brilliantly.
What type of trader are you?
There are thousands of trading strategies out there, many completely different from one another, many surprisingly similar, and almost all capable of producing strong results in the right hands. The catch? It’s rarely the strategy that fails. More often, it’s the trader.
The K-shaped economy — here’s why it affects your money
You’ve probably seen the headlines: the global economy is “recovering”, markets are climbing, and confidence is returning. But if you speak to ordinary households or small-business owners, you hear a very different story — pressure, rising costs, and a recovery that somehow never seems to reach them. This isn’t a contradiction. It’s a sign of the world we’re now living in: an economy that no longer rises and falls together, but instead splits into two very different paths – the K-shaped economy.
Myth vs Reality: Three Trading Assumptions That Hold Traders Back
Most traders enter the market with confidence, optimism, and a few ideas they picked up online. The problem is that many of those ideas are not just wrong but they actively work against you. With a massive uptick in self-proclaimed trading guru’s, there is a rise of “fake news” and myths about trading being shared online.
The scramble for copper is ON – And this small cap might be the most overlooked player in the game…
The world’s largest miner, BHP, has now tried twice to take over Anglo American – and both times, the motivation was the same… Not diamonds, not PGMs, not coal. Copper. The metal that sits behind everything from EVs and renewable energy to AI data centres and upgraded power grids.
Is all this AI spending actually worth it?
Every few months, Big Tech steps onto the earnings stage and drops another eye-watering number on the table. Tens of billions of dollars earmarked for AI data centres, chips, servers, and everything in between. And each time, the market winces a little. You can almost hear investors whispering: “This better pay off…”
Is the rand’s rally stalling? R16.70 is sending a signal you shouldn’t ignore
The rand has been one of the big surprise winners of 2025.
It’s up double digits, outperforming almost every emerging-market peer and giving South Africans a rare break from currency pain. But before you reshuffle your portfolio or move cash offshore, let’s dig into what’s actually powering this rally — and whether it still has momentum.
JSE After Dark: Could SA’s market start trading around the clock?
Imagine checking a company announcement at 10 PM and being able to trade immediately, instead of waiting for the next morning. The JSE is exploring exactly that – extending trading hours beyond the usual 9-to-5.
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