RTG to transform business strategy

Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) says it will transform its business strategy to a technology-driven approach anchored by the new Gateway Stream mobile application.

FCB profitability expected to decline

Banking group, First Capital Bank (FCB) profitability for the financial year 2021, is expected to decrease as revaluations and net trading gains moderate owing to slowing annual inflation. 

Companies, investors return to fundamentals on economic stability

THE current prevailing economic and financial stability has necessitated the need to return to fundamentals for both companies and investors in the country, an equities report notes.

Build your social capital

Transactions are not made in the boardroom, they are only formalised there. People are not hired in the interview rooms, they are hired somewhere else. 

Responsible lending vital for economic stability

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe managed to achieve price and exchange rate stability by discovering a market exchange rate, with a total of US$833 million allocated through the auction system as at 16 February 2021. 

The biggest bank ever: Why history matters

Dr Alfred M Mthimkhulu By the time the Argentine finance minister quit in July 1890, a financial meltdown of global proportions was inevitable.  The minister had had enough of the…

Trillion-dollar figure evokes bad memories

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange market capitalisation reached the trillion dollar mark this week as investors; amid limited investment options, growing money supply, and a depreciating local currency continued to look for a safe haven for cash holdings.  

PPC secures R2,1bn for finance facilities

JSE-listed cement and building materials producer PPC has secured R2,1 billion in new finance facilities from its South African lenders and will no longer be proceeding with a planned equity…

Stock Market Weekly Review

Equities on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) maintained an upward trajectory in the week, which saw overall market value reach the $1 trillion mark, sustained by gains in blue chips.

Reviving the fortunes of Zim’s coffee growers

Deep in Zimbabwe’s south-eastern highlands, close to the Mozambique border, lies the prime coffee-growing region of Chipinge; home to the first ever coffee grown in Zimbabwe in the 18th century, and famous for its slowly sun-dried, smooth tasting, earthy, chocolatey flavours.