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Boxer Earns More Per Rand. So Why Can't It Catch Shoprite?

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Naspers & Prosus: down 50% in a year; half price, or half the story?

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Record car sales, falling motor stocks: Motus, CMH, WeBuyCars and Zeda

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Two Education Stocks. Both Expensive. Which is the Smart One to Own?

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PGMs: the white metal, the dynamics, and the miners

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Is there value in Shoprite at all-time highs?

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Oil, elections, rates and gold: the four things that matter

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Ranking JSE gold miners as the yellow metal is on the move

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Cheap for a Reason: ABSA versus Nedbank. Which to buy?

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Pick n Pay has stopped bleeding. But has it started healing?

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Mr Price and Clicks. End of an Era, or an Entry Point?

12

Finding quality JSE dividends | Alphabet profits booms, stock falls

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Finding an edge in prediction markets | Netflix, market hate is an opportunity?

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Purple Group goes all-in on AI | US 10-year at 4.63% is a crisis

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Defence Stocks and the Replacement Trade | Why Lockheed Martin Wins

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Europe's Biggest Tech IPO: Bending Spoons

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MercadoLibre is Amazon with a bank and it's cheapest in years

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Peace in Our Time | Are We Just Going Back to February?

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Stocks for your Soccer World Cup

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The US consumer has no savings left, should we worry?

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The SpaceX IPO Valuation Reality Check | The Pope on AI

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Bond Yields Are Screaming | Why Isn't Anyone Calling It a Crisis?

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Boxer's Blinder & The Pick & Pay Valuation That Makes No Sense

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Hyperscaler Results, Berkshire's Cash Pile and Fuel Pain

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Tim Cook Out, Tariff Refunds In, Markets Back At Highs

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The Hormuz "Blockade" Has Fine Print | So Does the SA Fuel Crisis

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SA Retail Stocks: Where the Value Is Right Now

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Six Space Stocks Reviewed, Which Ones Are Worth It?

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Tariffs are Back with no Ceiling and Gold at $4,000

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War, Fuel & Fertilizer: The Inflation Pipeline

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As Uncertainty Rules, Rate Cuts are Gone

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Budget Boost, Oil Shock | SA's Two-Speed Week that Changed the Narrative

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Budget panel 2026 with Deputy Minister & Christo Wiese

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Trumps Tariffs Trashed, Now What? | Budget 2026

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Can AI Value Stocks? Local | Yields at decade Lows

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Hyper Capex Spending | Junior Miner Pain

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Is the Gold Collapse Over?

38

Stock Picks for the Cristal & Moneyweb Challenges

39

Fed Pressure, Gold Power and a Stronger Rand

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Predictions 2026 with; Marc Ashton, Keith McLachlan & Simon Brown

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The Best, and Worst, on the JSE in 2025

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It's been a year, but markets loved it

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Best and worst JSE Stocks Over the Last Decade

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Good Things Happening in SA | How to Spot the Bubble Popping

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JSE in the Cross Hairs (and Proposing Changes) | Don't Fight the Trend

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When Will The Markets Crash? | Optasia IPO Fails to Pop

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Gold took us up … and Gold will take us down

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Optasia, AI-enabled fintech business, listing on the JSE. Worth buying?

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JSE Large Caps with Great Dividend Yields

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Value on the JSE? We find the Cheapest Shares

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what's pushed Purple Group +140% this Year? And a Bull Case for SA Inc.

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Your Second Brain | Managing all the Data and Putting it to use

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Three Stocks with Cash & Shares Worth more then their Market Cap

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Alphabet Wins & Makes New Highs | OPEC Boosts Production

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Twenty Years of Poor EM returns | Sixty60 almost a R20bn Revenue Business

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Naspers Stock Split | UK Yields at Worst Levels this Century

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Buffett Buys UnitedHealth, should you? | The Google Listing with a Twist Turns 21

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Share Buy Backs; the Good & the Ugly | Market Loving the Sasol Update

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SARB & Treasury Fight Over Inflation | Which MPs Hold Crypto?

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SARB has not added to gold reserves in two decades | Which JSE stocks will be hit by tariffs?

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Is a Lower Inflation target a Bad Idea? Is Afrimat Offering Value?

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What's with Bitcoin Treasury Companies? | Ouch US CPI and Chinese Home Prices

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Trump's Big (and Messy) Plan to Save America and Reduce the Deficit and Debt

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Market Surprises, Trump's Tariffs & Commodities Soaring | 2025 Year-to-date returns reviewed

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EAC, the only fee that matters | Gold or PGMs?

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Oil bad news for global economy | Tariff D-Day is 3 weeks away

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Results Shows SA Consumer Improving | Renewable Energy Listing With ±9% DY

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The anatomy of a financial crisis, 1987 to date | What happened, what changed and what we learnt

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Peloton Free Cash Flow | New Inflation Target for SA?

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US Debt Downgrade Not New News | Big Day for Sasol & Renergen

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Has Trump Shown us how Tariffs Resolve?

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We can all be Buffett, Kinda | Sell in May & Go Away?

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Alphabet is way Cheap | Nasty US economic data

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Rare Earth Minerals. Not so rare, but worth a look?

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Gold $4,500 by yearend, is it even possible?

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Trade Wars | Recession | What about your Portfolio?

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Glynn Allen | Shyft Global Offering JSE Shares

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Two US Stocks Looking Good | Commodities Quietly Having a Good Year

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Education Stock Highlights | Rhodium & Copper on the Move

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Renergen sells Helium, Finally. Gold & Top40 at all-time Highs

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Atlanta Fed has the US already in recession for Q1

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Tariffs, Results and a Strategic Crypto Reserve (#621)

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Understanding tax and donations | Sasol results fail to excite

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Xi Jinping makes nice with Chinese tech | Anglo raids Anglo Plat cash pile

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China Running and Finally a Sasol Reversal Pattern?

86

Golden Highs & Trump Trade Shambles

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Cristal Challenge Stock Picks for 2025 (#616)

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TSMC winning in AI

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Predictions 2025 with; Marc Ashton, Keith McLachlan & Simon Brown

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That's a Wrap we Look Back at an Excellent 2024

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Bitcoin Fails at $100k & Hello Boxer (#612)

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Local Inflation at 2.8%, is the SARB Asleep? (#611)

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Crypto Flies while Gold Crashes (#611)

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Trump wins, whats the trade? Also; AMSL, Nvidia and Crowdstrike all worth a look? (#609)

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Using AI to analyse Famous Brands results and Awesome Local CPI (#608)

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Booming Local Retail Sales and RIP Tito Mboweni (#607)

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Capitec, a Core Portfolio Holding? Balwin vs. Calgro M3. (#606)

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REITs Booming and Still More to Come (#605)

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China to the Rescue and ZAR Powers Stronger. What's the Target? (#604)

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What's an asset light business and why's it a great investment (#603)