Money Market with Chris Gibbons
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Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Credit ratings agency Fitch issues a stark warning, Ramaphosa defends the new Minister of Electricity position, and nine public sector unions prepare to down tools.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Food inflation is rampant, Fitch joins Moody's in warning of an adjustment to the country's economic growth outlook, and a surprise resignation from Amplats CEO Natascha Viljoen. (Chris Buchanan was standing in for Chris Gibbons)
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Telkom to lay off staff, clarity on the role of the new minister of electricity, and the national state of disaster sees Gwede Mantashe put the controversial Karpowership bid.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
A tricky ethical conundrum presents itself over the electricity crisis - which way would you vote - power or health? And Eskom is about to go knocking on doors looking to buy 1 400 megawatts of electricity.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
South Africa heading for a recession according to a poll, Standard Bank makes surprising growth prediction, and 'grid failure' being pulled from insurance policies.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
A very mixed reaction to the declaration of a state of disaster over the energy crisis, plans for tax breaks on the cards, and Engen to get an international owner.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
President Ramaphosa will deliver his State of the Nation Address amid a sea of discontent as the business community recalls broken promises from last year's speech, and Turkey suspends trading following deadly quake.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
SARS engages with National Treasury over the energy crisis, the Consumer Goods Council writes an open letter to Ramaphosa while Fitch sounds a warning over the farmgate scandal.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Counting the cost of load shedding, Anglo-American CEO Duncan Wanbald has strong words of warning at Mining Indaba - and what will that balloon tell us?
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
On the markets, two key factors are at play, one of them being that Chinese 'weather balloon', and all eyes are on the president ahead of Thursday's State of the Nation Address.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Tourism bosses blast R1-billion Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship proposal, and in an announcement tinged with irony, South African coal producer Seriti Resources plans to build the country's biggest wind farm.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
A row looms over a plan by SA Tourism to sponsor Tottenham Hotspur to the tune of nearly a billion rand, a new digital bank to operate come March, and the US Federal Reserve raises interest rates as predicted.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Compelling half-year figures for Shoprite, petrol and diesel are up, and a mixed bag for the markets ahead of the US Federal Reserve Bank meeting today.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Government considers declaring the Eskom crisis a national state of disaster, a plan to supply small businesses and households with solar panels in the pipeline, and we count the cost of the United States' suspension of the pact to supply nuclear fuel to Koeberg.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
SA's leading poultry producer, Astral Foods, makes a desperate appeal to government, and investors have their eye on the US Federal Reserve's Wednesday fiscal meeting.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
The Reserve Bank Governor is pessimistic about the outlook for the economy, load shedding puts pressure on Impala Platinum and impacts coal exports from Richard's Bay.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
JSE heavyweights Naspers and subsidiary Prosus to lay off staff, Astral Foods profits plummet due to load shedding, and Mineral Resources & Energy minister Gwede Mantashe backs government's controversial plans to solve the energy crisis.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Eskom has paid nearly R10 bn in penalties on its Medupi coal contract, and has hit back at Ramaphosa's plea to not increase tariffs saying that those "aggrieved" by the upcoming 18.65% hike will have to lodge a court application to challenge the decision.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Another record high for the JSE, and government looks into securing electricity supply from Turkey’s Karpowership as Eskom's energy crisis deepens.
Money Market with Chris Gibbons
Good news and bad news from Eskom as government scraps the 100-megawatt licensing ceiling - the bad news - load-shedding for another two years, and it looks like interest rates will go up Thursday when the Reserve Bank meets.