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2012 Budget focus should not be on allocation of funds but how funds will be spent to achieve true economic value

17 February 2012

For onlookers within South Africa’s financial service sector, the delivery of the 2012 Budget Speech by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan next week will be interesting, not from the point of where funds will be allocated, but more importantly how funds will

South Africa’s fortunes tied to global stability

14 February 2012

A mixed picture of the economy emerged at the start of this year as concerns over the on-going crisis in Europe led to downgrades in growth expectations

Focus on Europe only at your Peril

09 February 2012

The Eurozone itself and countries within the Eurozone, given the daily litany of difficulties, have received most of the international media’s attention almost to the exclusion of other countries around the world. Undoubtedly the current financial crisis

Steep declines in insolvencies, liquidations bode well for SA economic outlook

24 January 2012

Yesterday’s release of statistics that are widely viewed as key economic barometers indicates that South Africa enters 2012 with relatively prosperous portents.

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A decade of difficulty: reasons for South Africa to be fearful and reasons for hope

24 January 2012

The Jekyll and Hyde of low interest rates

23 January 2012

Pre-MPC forecast

18 January 2012

Don’t change course now on interest rates

17 January 2012

Top 10 business continuity issues for 2012

17 January 2012

Local Economic Update - the year ahead

10 January 2012

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

07 December 2011

House price recovery still some way off

05 December 2011

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