Facebook won’t impact foreign allowance
Local investors can now gain exposure to Facebook, one of the worlds’ most anticipated IPOs without using their foreign allowance allocation.
View ArticleAbil director takes punt
Sam Sithole, a non-executive director at African Bank Investments Limited (Abil) has taken an effective R4.8m bet on the embattled lender after the share plummeted yesterday following a negative...
View ArticleSteinhoff: Some big bets
Over the last few months Finweek writers and contributors to our Pro Pick section in the magazine have been tipping Steinhoff as a good value play in the long run. It would appear that non-executive...
View ArticleSTOCK WATCH: Pallinghurst Resources
By Finweek’s calculations, the recent run-up in the share price means that Wiese is sitting with a profit of around R707786 since he started buying SSF contracts on Pallinghurst back in April 2013. For...
View ArticleWiese splashes out on Shoprite SSF contracts
While my colleague Marc Ashton is quick to point out that Christo Wiese is putting a bit of money into Pallinghurst Resources, the real action is taking place in JSE-listed retail giant Shoprite where...
View ArticleINVESTMENT: Warrants still offer value
Due to the complicated nature of warrants, it has fallen out of favour with South African traders since its heyday in 1997, but that doesn't mean there's no money to be made. Finweek contributor Simon...
View ArticleNEWS: JSE ends 2014 with record highs
The value of trades on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) increased by 45% in December 2014, resulting in a R345bn turnover for the month.
View ArticleINVESTMENT: Single stock futures: What, why, who and when?
South Africa currently hosts the largest Single Stock Futures market in the world. This futures contract gives the holder the ability to buy or sell the underlying asset at a fixed price on a future...
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