ANNUAL RESULTS Lucky number 14 hails Nedbank’s digital transformation strategy 4 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
Business Maverick Rand extends losses as sharper-than-expected Q4 GDP contraction signals start of deep recession 4 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
ECONOMY ANALYSIS Q4 GDP data for South Africa likely to signal the start of a recession 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
REAL ESTATE ‘Excessive’ hikes in municipal rates raise the ire of SA’s biggest property owners 5 min 3 By Ray Mahlaka
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index contracts into negative terrain after power crisis crunches confidence 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
JOBS SA unemployment rate nudges down to 32.7% in Q4 2022, signalling no meaningful improvement 3 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK IMF raises 2023 GDP world growth forecast – even, perplexingly, for South Africa 3 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
ENERGY CRISIS ANALYSIS PwC estimates rolling blackouts knocked up to five percentage points off SA’s 2022 GDP growth 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
MINE PRODUCTION ANALYSIS SA mining output tanks 9% in year to November as power and other woes bite 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
MODEST SHIFT World Bank trims SA economic growth forecasts — next time it may wield a panga 3 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
ECONOMY ANALYSIS BankservAfrica BETI bounces in December after six months of decline 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
IN SECOND GEAR Cautious optimism — New vehicle sales give industry a modicum of hope for 2023 recovery 2 min 0 By Georgina Crouth
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: The story of 2022, a year of grey swan events 4 min 0 By Unknown Author
LIGHTS OUT Power was cut somewhere in SA in Q3 47.7% of the time — Reserve Bank 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Stats SA’s third-quarter GDP data give a glimmer of hope when days are dark and friends are few 6 min 0 By Georgina Crouth
DEBT RATING Fitch maintains stable outlook for SA, but flags power supply and public wages woes 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE SA Reserve Bank hikes interest rates by 75 basis points in a split decision 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
ECONOMY IN DISTRESS BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index registers fifth consecutive monthly decline in October 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
