Magic Markets Ep3: Touch my junk (bonds)

In the third episode of Magic Markets, we ask you to touch our junk. Well, our junk bonds. To be more precise, we unpack the role of ratings agencies and why investors use them to rate government and corporate bonds. Join The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla of Moe-Knows.com as we answer these questions: What do ratings agencies do? Why …

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Risk-on, risk-off

Remember Karate Kid? Well, it had nothing to do with economics or finance, but the famous “wax-on, wax-off” scene always comes to mind for me when people talk about risk-on or risk-off. This concept tries to explain why the South African market moves for reasons that have nothing to do with South Africa. In times of crisis or when investors …

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