WHILE the country's economy has crumbled, the Zimbabwean share speculator has been earning returns above inflation, keeping up much better than ordinary citizens.

JSE-listed black-empowered electrical wholesaler ARB Holdings has established a new global company to supply exports to Africa, and is aiming to grow its export revenue from R50m to R250m in the short term.

WHEN I was writing about Argent yesterday, its shares were trading around R13.

FINANCIAL shares, the whipping boy of the markets for the past two years, continued their unprecedented two-day rally yesterday, their dramatic rebound coinciding with the second-highest volume of shares traded in a single day on the JSE.

The privatisation of Safaricom may have put the Kenyan capital market on the world map, but this close attention by global hedge funds and security traders is coming at a heavy price.