commodities

Ugandan budget: Striking a balance between infrastructure and social sectors is key

AfricaSarah Logan | 2018-06-11 17:13:00

Member countries of the East African Community are preparing to simultaneously table the...

BusinessLisa Steyn | 2017-01-27 00:00:00

For the past two-and-a-half years, calling the bottom of the commodities price cycle was taboo. Depressed prices and unusual market conditions saw...

Commodities price revival boosts JSE all-share index

BusinessLisa Steyn | 2016-03-11 00:00:00

There’s not much that is able to keep the JSE down, even in the current economic malaise. Amid depressed global and local economic activity, the...

Commodities on a slippery slope

AfricaClar Ni Chonghaile | 2016-01-15 00:00:00

As leaders of some African countries brace themselves for a rocky financial year, they might reflect ruefully on the words of Polish author Ryszard...

Steel sinks as China’s growth slows

BusinessFeiwen Rong | 2015-11-20 00:00:00

Crude steel production in China will drop by 23-million tonnes next year, according to the nation’s leading industry group. That’s equivalent...

Gold leads commodities plunge

BusinessStaff Reporter, Bloomberg | 2015-07-24 00:00:00

The global commodity price collapse is deepening amid weak demand and anticipation of an interest rate hike in the United States, and has dragged...

Oil bonanza is not only good news

BusinessThalia Holmes | 2014-12-05 00:00:00

South Africa's benefit from the dramatic fall in oil prices could be reduced by a simultaneous drop in the prices of other commodities such as...

Commodity slump erodes revenue

BusinessLisa Steyn | 2014-02-28 00:00:00

Lower commodity prices are weighing heavily on South Africa and dampening revenue growth, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on...

Gold up on news of US rating downgrade

BusinessNicholas Larkin | 2013-10-17 13:08:00

Gold jumped the most in four weeks in London after China's Dagong Global Credit Rating cut its credit rating for the United States and on...

Maize futures slide to lowest in a month as rand climbs

BusinessTshepiso Mokhema | 2013-09-16 16:04:00

Maize futures traded in South Africa, the continent’s largest producer of the grain, fell to one-month lows as advances by the rand against...

Commodities: Modest recovery on the cards

BusinessChantelle Benjamin | 2013-06-06 16:36:00

Kevin Norrish, managing director of Barclays commodity research, said on Thursday that he did not see reports by the International Monetary...

Editorial: Rand buried in consensus politics

EditorialsEditorial | 2013-05-31 00:00:00

The figures are now as unremittingly bleak as the news from the platinum belt. Economic growth of just 0.9% falls far short of expectations; worse,...

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