Equities market keeps positive momentum

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange’s All Share index opened the week on a higher note after adding 0.30 points to close at 95.74 as heavyweight counters’ bullish trend continued…

FML to buy out NicozDiamond minorities

BH24 Reporter HARARE – First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL) has made offer to buy out the remaining minority shareholders of NicozDiamond Insurance Limited following acquiring 80,92 percent of the latter’s…

World Stocks stumble as U.S. yields near 3 percent

LONDON – World stocks slipped on Monday as investors braced for a blizzard of earnings from the world’s largest firms, while keeping a wary eye on U.S. bond yields as they approach…

Rand slips to three-month low as dollar bounces

The rand was much weaker on Monday morning, touching R12.25/$ for the first time since mid-January before Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as head of state.

Quton releases new hybrid cotton seed

Sifelani Tsiko HARARE – Zimbabwe’s major cotton seed producer Quton has released new cotton hybrid seeds with a higher yield potential compared to current non-hybrid varieties in a move which…

New hotel, conference centre construction for Vic Falls by mid-year: Minister

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s world renowned resort, the Victoria Falls will soon boast of a new five star hotel and a conference centre whose construction is set to begin by mid-year,…

Zim in $317m trade imbalance in March – Zimstat

HARARE – Zimbabwe imported more goods than it exported in the month of March 2018, incurring a trade deficit of $317 million, latest figures from the country’s statistics agency show.

Small-scale farmers should be at the centre of land reform in South Africa

By Ben Cousins Smallholder farming has been neglected over the past 23 years of South Africa’s attempt to redistribute land taken away from black people during the apartheid era. Not…

All Share Index posts weekly gains

HARARE – On a week-on-week basis, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchnage’s All Share Index added moved up 4.87 points (or 5, 38 percent).

Vital Signs: the calm before the storm in US-China trade

Richard Holden It’s not all that often that the semi-annual report titled “US Treasury Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States” is a hotly…

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