2008

Global Markets – 4th quarter 2008 : The credit crisis – how it all began

November 09, 2008

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When the rumblings of the sub prime credit crisis first emerged in August last year, nobody envisaged the extent to which this would unfold and later become the catalyst for a crisis within financial markets and banking systems around the world. A recent article by Kevin Lings [Econom

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Global Markets – 3rd quarter 2008 : The widening income disparity in South Africa is a cause for concern

August 09, 2008

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The Business Day recently published an article, based on research that had been done by the Bureau for Market Research at Unisa, which reported that “income disparities in SA have widened in the past two years, boosted by more rapid growth in high-income earners…” According to the res

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Global Markets – 2nd quarter 2008 : Food prices in crisis

May 09, 2008

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Did you read the article titled “World Food Riots Spread” that was published in the Business Times in April? We found it enlightening and rather disturbing. The article confirms that global leaders have been raising serious concerns about the food crisis for some time… “while there is

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Global Markets – 1st quarter 2008 : Electricity – now a rare commodity in SA?

February 09, 2008

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“Load shedding” and “blackouts” are words now used with frustration on a daily basis in South Africa. Nobody is immune to these frustrations and none can escape them. Most of us have a “load shedding” table handy at all times, having learnt how to make sense of them in a hurry. It wou

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2008

Global Markets – 4th quarter 2008 : The credit crisis – how it all began

Global Markets – 3rd quarter 2008 : The widening income disparity in South Africa is a cause for concern

Global Markets – 2nd quarter 2008 : Food prices in crisis

Global Markets – 1st quarter 2008 : Electricity – now a rare commodity in SA?

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