THIS YEAR HAS HARDLY BEEN an auspicious one for risk-takers. All who placed big bets on the markets and the economy in 2008 in all probability are now wishing they had a more cautious approach or followed tried and tested methods.
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD South Africa's telecommunications market has been waiting for will finally be ushered in on 19 January when regulator Icasa issues service providers with infrastructure licences and goes about making key new pro-competitive regulations.
DESPITE ONGOING volatility in the JSE's real estate sector, South African property investors who poured money into their own backyards have earned better returns this year than those who went the offshore route.
A LARGE PART of shipping and logistics group Grindrod's capital spending is on vessels. But its investments go way beyond that.
THE YEAR 2008 started tentatively and ended terrified. The first signs of a slowdown became apparent as early as November 2007, but its depth and strength still had to be revealed.
"STOCKS SAY RECESSION but bonds say depression" is the catching heading of an article by John Curren in the latest issue of Time magazine.
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UNITED STATES president elect Barack Obama is working on an economic recovery strategy that will see the biggest investment in the country's infrastructure since President Dwight Eisenhower created the interstate highway system a half-century ago.
RESPECTED research house Gartner says virtualisation will be the most important technology in IT infrastructures and operations up to 2010, dramatically changing how IT departments manage, buy, deploy, plan and charge for their services
STATISTICS about the successful issuing of bonds by companies in Europe over the past month can almost be seen as a Christmas gift for a confused and subdued international financial community.