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AI + Finance
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The Strait of Hormuz is finally open as the US and Iran reach a peace agreement, but the damage has already been done. Economies have suffered, and ordinary citizens have felt the pain of high petrol prices. What has SA lost in the 110 days the Strait of Hormuz was closed?
The biggest IPO in market history is listed today. The most consequential line in SpaceX's prospectus has nothing to do with rockets, and most of the financial press has read past it. Inside: what investors are actually buying at $1.75 trillion.
The AI trade ran hard this week, and then it didn't.
This issue argues that the SA consumer economy is splitting into two, a Moody's upgrade has given institutional money cover to re-enter SA financial assets.
Global rate risk is repricing SA assets. Most local investors have not looked up yet.
A hawkish Fed chair is confirmed. Here is what SA investors actually need to understand about what comes next.
Why Africa's biggest builders keep choosing London over Johannesburg to raise capital, and what it means for the JSE