What’s the Growth-point of property REITs?

The property sector on the JSE was once a hive of activity. A few years back, investment bankers literally rode the property wave all the way to their favourite sportscar dealership, raising money in the market on practically a daily basis and earning delectable fees along the way. The property sector was literally dripping with honey, as pension funds and …

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Vaccine volatility – what have investors done?

Today was a monumental day on the markets. Pfizer announced that its Covid-19 vaccine has been found to be 90% effective, comfortably the most important scientific breakthrough thus far in the fight against the virus. Now, your immediate reaction might be to buy Pfizer shares. Funnily enough, at time of writing, Pfizer was only up 6% after the news. That …

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Dis-Chem’s regulatory headaches may hurt its M&A strategy

Dis-Chem had a rough few months in the court of public opinion. The company wanted special concessions from landlords, even though it was one of the few retailers allowed to remain open. That paled in comparison to the reputational damage from the allegations of hiking the prices of masks. Thankfully for Dis-Chem, Clicks had a real “hold my beer” moment …

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Car market fires on all cylinders in Q3

One of the themes in the latest raft of corporate earnings is that the automotive sector’s engine is starting to rev again. The driver of the recovery is China, with the horrors of lockdown seemingly long forgotten. Western nations are dealing with renewed pandemic issues, as countries like the UK get locked down again. The purchase of a new car …

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Car market fires on all cylinders in Q3

One of the themes in the latest raft of corporate earnings is that the automotive sector’s engine is starting to rev again. The driver of the recovery is China, with the horrors of lockdown seemingly long forgotten. Western nations are dealing with renewed pandemic issues, as countries like the UK get locked down again. The purchase of a new car …

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Big tech has trust issues: latest earnings

In July, the chairman of the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust called Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple “emperors of the online economy” that “enjoy the power to pick winners and losers, shake down small businesses and enrich themselves while choking off competitors”. It laid the foundation for what would come next: on October 20th, the U.S. Department of …

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Microsoft: a reminder of what growth is

Microsoft released Q1 earnings this week. No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Whilst the current earnings season is called the “Q3 season” by most people to align with the calendar year (i.e. covers the period July – September), companies with year-ends other than December won’t be calling this Q3. Microsoft’s year-end is July, so this is a Q1 result …

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