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Rand

Get-rich-quick schemes, pyramids and ponzis: five signs you’re being scammed

Maverick Life

Get-rich-quick schemes, pyramids and ponzis: five signs you’re being scammed

By Bomikazi Zeka and Abdul Latif Alhassan

Loaded for Bear: Stars are aligned for a rate cut on Thursday, and why not make it 50 basis points?

Business Maverick

Loaded for Bear: Stars are aligned for a rate cut on Thursday, and why not make it 50 basis points?

By Ed Stoddard

Trump, tariffs and a surging rand: welcome to currency twilight zone

Business Maverick

Trump, tariffs and a surging rand: welcome to currency twilight zone

By Chris Cammack

Below the currency belt

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Below the currency belt

By Rico

Rand hits record low against US dollar, slammed by GNU fiasco and Trump tariffs

Business Maverick

Rand hits record low against US dollar, slammed by GNU fiasco and Trump tariffs

By Ed Stoddard

Explainer — why the rand is a sitting and sinking duck

Business Maverick

Explainer — why the rand is a sitting and sinking duck

By Ed Stoddard

Rand collapses amid market turmoil after GNU jitters and Trump tariff shock rattle investors

Business Maverick

Rand collapses amid market turmoil after GNU jitters and Trump tariff shock rattle investors

By Ed Stoddard

The Budget brouhaha and you — wallet pressure, service strain and the price of political paralysis

Business Maverick

The Budget brouhaha and you — wallet pressure, service strain and the price of political paralysis

By Yeshiel Panchia

South Africa has very real challenges, but everything is going to be okay

Business Maverick

South Africa has very real challenges, but everything is going to be okay

By Marc Ashton

Markets little moved, economists give Budget mixed reviews

Business Maverick

Markets little moved, economists give Budget mixed reviews

By Ed Stoddard

Rand and bond markets have not melted down over the non-Budget fiasco — yet

Business Maverick

Rand and bond markets have not melted down over the non-Budget fiasco — yet

By Ed Stoddard

Clouds of uncertainty make the path ahead tricky for Godongwana and his Treasury team

Business Maverick

Clouds of uncertainty make the path ahead tricky for Godongwana and his Treasury team

By Ed Stoddard