Flash Briefing: Eskom bailout ready; Rand steady; Gold at 5-year-high;...
By Linda van Tilburg In today’s Biznews Flash Briefing: President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the Government is going to bail out Eskom. A special appropriation Bill will be tabled as a matter...
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With 26% profit growth, Naspers brings sunshine into SA investor gloom
On Rational Radio this week, Allan Gray director Duncan Artus suggested that instead of quoting gold in their news bulletins, radio stations would do better to keep the nation informed about the...
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Naspers delays Euronext listing after postage blunder
Naspers has been forced to delay the listing of its international assets which had been planned for July 19 because of a blunder by a service provider. The group now expects to list its international...
View ArticleFlash Briefing: Bitcoin breaks $10k; Naspers delays Prosus listing; Luno on...
By Alec Hogg Late on Friday, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin traded above $10,000 for the first time in over a year, riding a wave of optimism about the future of digital currencies. By...
View ArticleCFO shares the Naspers playbook: Another Tencent on the horizon?
In this interview with Naspers CFO Basil Sgourdos, the group has followed a similar playbook for decades: travel widely, expose yourself to global trends and take disciplined bets in promising areas....
View ArticleSA savers getting great value in global arena. Thanks to Naspers.
One of the first things to strike any South African working in the First World is the country’s relative insignificance in a global context. Particularly in the financial world. A friend who was always...
View ArticleNaspers’s discount headache on its Tencent investment – Wall Street Journal
Tencent’s anchor shareholder Naspers has a curiously incomplete plan to manage the downside of its extraordinary early bet on the Chinese tech giant. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium....
View ArticleThe Editor’s Desk: Discovery Bank is on to a winner & where to for Tiso
Discovery has long been one of South Africa’s most innovative companies, and it looks like Discovery Bank is no different from Discovery Health. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members...
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Rand hedge stocks push JSE benchmark index to best start in 12 years
By Adelaide Changole (Bloomberg) – South African investors have been caught up in a dramatic contrast in the first half of 2019: a stumbling economy, but a stock market that raced to its best start in...
View ArticleMoyo dishes dirt on Manuel; Trade war talk boosts rand; Eskom coal plants...
By Jackie Cameron The battle between Old Mutual’s sacked CEO Peter Moyo and the life assurer’s chairman, Trevor Manuel, has intensified, with Moyo claiming that he was fired in a tit-for-tat type move...
View ArticleMiners pollute Mpumalanga water; Naspers gets SA CEO; No QE in SA; Business...
By Linda van Tilburg South African coal mines operated by companies such as Glencore and Anglo American are polluting parts of Mpumalanga province as they fail to comply with their water licenses,...
View ArticleJean Pierre Verster: Advice on Naspers offshore listing, property – and Abil
Jean Pierre Verster unpacks the options available to Naspers shareholders on the listing of its offshore assets in Amsterdam; and takes a close look at SA's bombed out property sector. This article is...
View ArticleThe Naspers dilemma – it makes sense to take the Prosus stock
Naspers’s newly created subsidiary Prosus which will house the group’s global internet assets including its 31% stake in Tencent, had a bumpy birth. But in truth many South African shareholders will be...
View ArticleDavid Shapiro goes Dutch – A Naspers call; tips a different Amsterdam listing
SA's favourite market commentator shares his call on Naspers's Dutch listing and finds us another company on the Amsterdam Exchange that he has bought into. This article is exclusive to Biznews...
View ArticleThe Editor’s Desk: The strange truth about the SA housing market
It’s no secret that the SA housing market is not in great shape. House prices are down, and sales are few. But things may not be quite as dire as they seem. This article is exclusive to Biznews...
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Naspers prepares investors for global listing
*This content is brought to you by Naspers The internet giant aims to list its international internet assets on Euronext Amsterdam on 11 September. Naspers shareholders get to vote next month on the...
View ArticleFlash Briefing: PP Judicial Review; Boris 1/33; UK/Iran red zone; Naspers SA...
By Alec Hogg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has requested an urgent judicial review into a report by the country’s Public Protector which he termed “fundamentally and irretrievably flawed.”...
View ArticleNaspers out to prove it is not a one trick pony – FT
Naspers was looking for the best option to address the share price gap and knew it was frustrating for all its stakeholders. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login here....
View ArticleDavid Shapiro on profiting from electric car boom, Naspers and fuel cells
David Shapiro takes a closer look at the impact of the electric car revolution and lets us in on what he is thinking about investable opportunities right now. This article is exclusive to Biznews...
View ArticleChasing students: Naspers Ventures into online education
It’s no secret Naspers trades at discount to the value of its Tencent stake. So much so that this discount was deemed part of the reason the technology giant pushed for its offshore listing on the...
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