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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.
The Dividend Trap that’s about to catch a lot of South African investors off guard
I 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.
Technical Analysis Signals: What is the Market Telling You?
Every day, millions of buyers and sellers interact in the financial markets. Every transaction contributes to one thing: price. While news headlines often dominate conversations among investors, technical analysts begin somewhere much simpler. They begin with the chart. The purpose of technical analysis is not to predict the future with certainty. Instead, it interprets the signals hidden within price action to identify where the probability of success may be greatest. By understanding what the market is communicating, investors can make more informed decisions about when to buy, when to sell, and when to simply wait.
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.
What Dividends Really Tell You
Last week, we looked at why companies list on the stock market and how investors can share in their growth. But what happens after a business becomes profitable? Does it keep investing every cent back into the business, or does it start rewarding shareholders? The answer often comes down to dividends.
AI hardware stocks: Why sky-high prices actually make sense right now
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.
AI-Flation: The hidden cost of the AI boom that just arrived on your doorstep
The promise of artificial intelligence has always carried an implicit economic assumption: that more computing power, applied intelligently, would drive costs down. Cheaper drug discovery. Cheaper logistics. Cheaper software development. A more productive economy with lower prices for everyone. That assumption just ran into reality. And reality, on 25 June, took the form of two back-to-back price announcements from two of the world’s most valuable companies.Giving rise to AI-flation.
Why Do Public Companies Exist?
Every day, millions of investors buy and sell shares on stock exchanges around the world. Yet few stop to ask a surprisingly simple question: why do public companies exist in the first place?
The second-round inflation effects are coming – here’s what it means for your portfolio…
South Africa’s inflation rate was 3% in February 2026. A 21-year low. The SARB was projecting rate cuts. The economy was, by any reasonable measure, in the best monetary policy position it had been in for two decades.
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.
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