Coronavirus and the impact on the market The world economy is seeing the biggest crisis since the financial shock of 2008 as the risks of Coronavirus (COVID 19) intensify across Europe and within our own country, South Africa. This is unprecedented in history and no one knows how this is all going to end up! Shares throughout the world have sold off sharply in the face of the growing impact
Coronavirus and the implications for investors Could anyone imagine at the start of the year that Italy would quarantine their entire country, that most schools, colleges and universities in Europe would be shut down or that America would cancel all travel between Europe and itself? The Coronavirus certainly has created a mass panic around the spread of the virus with the World Health Organisation yesterday labelling the virus a global
No Increase in personal taxes… As South Africans, we have become accustomed to uncertainty and unpredictability! Barely two months into the new decade and we’ve already had the JSE All Share Index surge to new highs then quickly retreat on the back of fears of the Coronavirus outbreak. Electricity has been switched on, switched off, switched on, switched off, switched on or off, off or on, I forget! Yesterday the