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Caution is the name of the game
Category: Articles/Editors Notes
... are fuelled by, among others: • Concerns that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe could trip up growth in the global economy; • A slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy; • A slower than expected ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
Investment climate
Category: Articles/Investments
... others: Concerns that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe could trip up growth in the global economy; A slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy; A slower than expected rebound by the American ...Monday, 02 August 2010 -
Currency policy
Category: Articles/Other
... trade union federations to jointly express their concern that an over-valued and volatile rand was the greatest concern for the manufacturing industry. Chinese influence This formed part of the launch ...Tuesday, 29 June 2010 -
Investment opinion
Category: Articles/Investments
Gold does not fear a furnace This old Chinese proverb comes to mind as the price of gold hit a record high of US$1.241 in mid-May 2010, with global currencies under pressure in the Eurozone debt crisis ...Tuesday, 18 May 2010 -
Chinese Stocks
Category: Articles/Investments
Canary in the coalmine? In another move by the Chinese authorities to rein in its booming economy, China’s central bank early May announced the third increase this year in the amount banks must hold ...Thursday, 06 May 2010 -
Global economy in trouble?
Category: Articles/Other
... fundamental changes in the weather patterns surrounding United States government bonds, while there also are growing concerns that the Chinese economy, until recently expected to lead the global economy ...Monday, 29 March 2010 -
Insurance Risks
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... risks. Admitted insurance is also usually more expensive. Non-admitted insurance policies are issued by an insurer not licensed in the country in which the risk is domiciled. For example, a Chinese insurer ...Wednesday, 10 March 2010 -
Mauritius
Category: Articles/Investments
... Zone, project that has already started, China will invest around USD 750 million in Mauritius. This Economic Zone will be used as the regional hub for Chinese investments landing into Africa. In ...Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Tax on car sales
Category: Articles/Investments
... by what is currently the largest automobile market in the world, China. On its way to the number-one spot, dislodging the United States from a position it has held for more than 100 years, the Chinese ...Tuesday, 19 January 2010 -
Post-crisis investment
Category: Articles/Investments
... will not be repeated here). The failure of Lehman Brothers proved to be the catalyst for global financial panic. I was en route to Beijing to attend a conference focusing on Chinese banking and property ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Worth a read
Category: Articles/Worth a read
... such as: How can the Chinese build things so cheaply? Is China's growth sustainable? What is it like dealing with the government? What do the Chinese think of Westerners? What is it like living there? ...Tuesday, 22 September 2009 -
Stock Markets
Category: Articles/Banking
... about the short-term trend very dangerous. The most likely catalyst for the apparent faltering in mid-August was the breakdown in emerging markets such as the Chinese Shanghai Composite Index (-17.3%) ...Monday, 14 September 2009 -
Global trade environment
Category: Articles/International Trends
... visit in June to Ghana. It was a visit that appeared to be no more than tokenism compared to Chinese president Hu Jintao's four nation visit earlier this year. In June, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev ...Wednesday, 12 August 2009 -
Skills Development
Category: Articles/Other
... the continent’s population and produce 30% of the continent’s GDP. The Chinese describe Africa as their ‘continent of choice’ because it is the richest continent on earth in terms of still-unwrapped mineral ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Gold may not be the hedge it once was
Category: Articles/Investments
... the first foreign entrant in China’s gold sector in 1995, was benefitting from the Asian superpower’s ready access to capital. “Chinese gold companies and the Chinese gold industry are undergoing a revolutionary ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
China's forex hits US$1.76 trillion
Category: Articles/Other
... -- or speculative inflows -- spurred by a strengthening yuan and a widening spread between falling US interest rates and rising Chinese rates. The increase in reserves was roughly three times larger than ...Monday, 02 June 2008 -
Unprecedented volatility
Category: Articles/Other
... “It’s not all doom and gloom. There is good and bad all over the world; while the Chinese may have cut their GDP figures from above 10% to 9.6%, they are still buying resources, and South Africa ...Wednesday, 20 February 2008 -
True investors welcome volatility
Category: Articles/Other
... rate of return of more than 60%! Volatility is indeed an investor’s friend. Very recently, Buffett announced that Berkshire has divested its entire stake of Chinese oil company PetroChina (NYSE: ...Tuesday, 22 January 2008
