THEY CAME, THEY SAW and - for a while - they conquered. But now the JSE's ranks of newly listed companies have been scattered by imploding investment sentiment, with share prices rapidly retreating since mid-2008.
Timotheüs Pretorius (41), also known as Timo, is the man behind Cortex Securities.
BANKS MAY HAVE tightened the lending taps to property developers and homebuyers, but international investors are still betting on South Africa's affordable housing sector as a long-term capital growth play.
THAT THE SPRAWLING TOWNSHIP of Daveyton didn't have fire and disaster management infrastructure for most of the time Desmond Moloto was growing up there hasn't stopped him from making a career out of such infrastructure.
IT SEEMS ALMOST CERTAIN that DDB Worldwide, the world's largest consolidated agency network, will acquire a stake in DDB South Africa, the Cinderella of the Jupiter Drawing Room/WPP deal.
RELATIVE TO THEIR peers overseas - who are shedding staff, slashing prices and in some cases closing doors for good - South Africa's retailers put in a good showing amid the economic gloom that hung over festive season trade, analysts say.
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NOWHERE IS consumers' unwillingness to splurge out money they don't have as clear as from the figures on growth in credit card debt.
LOCAL COMPUTER Vendors Sahara and Mustek (MST) have strategies in place to ensure South African sales buck the global downtrend.
WE LOOK AT AN important chart of Anglo American (currently only the JSE's third largest share). Its chart is a good pointer for the all-share index.
Summit TV speaks to Andrew Cave from the Daily Telegraph about a new book that’s causing a sensation, called “The Secrets of CEOs”, that reveals why being a chief executive comes with a health warning.