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Advanced hedging techniques for gold trading in volatile markets

The ability to effectively trade gold is a strategic asset in uncertain times

Forex trading in the era of blockchain: New opportunities and challenges

Currency trading will never be the same

Change: The Egypt stock exchange. The women-led Catalyst Fund is among investors in the country. Photo: Adam Berry/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Funds to chase more African unicorns

Venture capital firms are raising funds to secure high-impact African startups

There is strong bipartisan and beneficiary support for making improvements to Agoa.

The Africa investment protocol: a prickly pear for Africans

The Africa Continental Free Trade Area is set to be launched in January 2021. But the secretariat still needs to ensure that investors are adequately protected

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SPONSORED: Business in 2020: How the global economy is shaping up

Investors are keeping a close eye on what’s happening in the US, UK and China

Zimbabwe’s Transitional Stabilisation Programme, under Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube, seeks to build investor confidence through the creation of a stable macroeconomic environment. (Photo: Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)

The macro tightrope

Balancing Zim’s macro-economic environment to stimulate long-term growth

Gasant Orrie, Cape managing partner and director of corporate and commercial practice at
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. (Photo: Jasper Coetzee)

Despite M&A uptick, many investors still on the fence

How land reform will be achieved in South Africa continues to limit near-term investment

Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency)

Ramaphosa’s Erdogan problem

As investors move away from risky emerging markets, the highly traded rand is caught up in the contagion

The lack of a secure electricity supply in many African states is a chronic obstacle to doing business

SA counts cost of poor governance

If investors take a proactive oversight role, capital can be allocated to well-run entities

Euro fears and slow growth in China, US could boost gold

Many investors have lost hope that the gold price — which has plummeted to its lowest level in two years — will ever get back to its 2011 mark.

Mining companies have expressed concern that the ANC may decide to increase taxes on mines

Investors jittery, rand retreats as Mangaung looms

The rand retreated from a tough resistance barrier and languished in a recent range as uncertainty about the ANC election has kept investors jittery.

Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company workers walk to its plant in Redcliff

Zimbabwe investors find glass half-full

Uncertainty has become a way of life for businesses eyeing Zimbabwe’s consumer boom. Jason Moyo reports.

Merrill Lynch chief plans exit strategy

The head of the Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch was on Monday night negotiating a severance package tipped to be as high as -million after a risky strategy of betting…