Naspers will start trading on South Africa’s A2X Markets for secondary listings next week, the greatest prize yet for the upstart bourse as it seeks to challenge the JSE.
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Many of us are likely to find a smartwatch or fitness wearable under the Christmas tree this year, most of them claiming to help improve our health and well-being in some way.
It seems like every asset bubble has a famous anecdote of someone claiming, right at the top, that a crash is impossible.
The Trump administration has insisted the arrest of a top Huawei executive has nothing to do with trade talks. In Beijing, it’s just the latest US move to contain China’s rise as a global power.
The arrest last week in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, China’s iconic company, is a watershed event.
Nearly 170 years before the invention of bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit”.
China has threatened Canada with grave consequences if a top executive at Huawei is not immediately released, calling her arrest as she changed planes in Canada “unreasonable, unconscionable and vile in nature”.
Huawei chief financial officer Wanzhou Meng faces extradition to the US over potential violations of American sanctions on Iran. Here are the latest developments.
Economists estimate that the South African economy could have been 10% larger by the end of 2014 if it had not been for crippling power shortages.
Bloated by debt, bled by corruption and battered by structurally declining sales, Eskom is facing what’s known in the industry as a “death spiral”.