Sharon Wood

Sharon Wood is a freelance communicator who left the asset management industry after more than a decade working close to the multi-million rand investment decisions that drive our economy. Before that, she worked for the leading South African financial publications, including Business Day, Finweek, and Financial Mail, for 15 years, writing about financial markets, economics, banks, and personal finance. She now writes for clients in South Africa and around the world, enjoying the freedom and truly global nature of the gig economy.

Will financial repression ever become South Africa’s get-out-of-jail-free card?

Sharon Wood
57 mins ago

Covid crunch time for global demand

Sharon Wood
20 OCT

Doubling down on a K-shaped global economic recovery

Sharon Wood
13 OCT

South Africa is one of the few economies where workers are highly resilient

Sharon Wood
06 OCT

Will upbeat emerging markets assessments make it through the US election morass?

Sharon Wood
29 SEP

A toxic cocktail looms large over financial markets heading into infamous October

Sharon Wood
22 SEP

High-frequency data suggests post-lockdown recoveries are running out of steam

Sharon Wood
15 SEP

Why Japanification could cast a cloud over the SA economy

Sharon Wood
08 SEP

Rand to benefit from the US Fed’s inflation-averaging pivot

Sharon Wood
01 SEP

The economic future: Inflation, Deflation or Stagflation?

Sharon Wood
24 AUG

The end of US exceptionalism as we know it?

Sharon Wood
17 AUG

Counting the economic cost of the 2Q Covid-19 lockdown

Sharon Wood
03 AUG

Dollar’s diminishing safe-haven status is a benefit to emerging markets

Sharon Wood
28 JUL

Commodities: Signposts that help point the way to recovery or recession

Sharon Wood
22 JUL

Will a rebounding China pull other emerging markets along in its wake?

Sharon Wood
13 JUL

What will it take to improve SA’s private sector investment climate?

Sharon Wood
07 JUL

Covid-19 again looms large over second-half economic and financial market prospects

Sharon Wood
30 JUN

Mixed signals muddy the waters of a second-quarter economic squall

Sharon Wood
22 JUN

Staring into the bottomless global government debt hole

Sharon Wood
16 JUN

Build-back better to withstand the next global systemic economic disaster

Sharon Wood
09 JUN

The impossible task of forecasting South Africa’s economic future

Sharon Wood
01 JUN

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