China firms ditch bonds for banks in search for funds

Shanghai. — Chinese companies are turning away from capital markets and heading back to state-owned banks to raise cash, in a reversal of Beijing’s previous efforts to modernize the way…

Sibanye to buy Lonmin for R5,17bn

Johannesburg.  — Sibanye Gold plans to buy Lonmin, marking the end of the smallest and most financially stressed of the world’s three biggest platinum miners.

We can have FDI and empowerment too

Encouraging foreign direct investment through legal and economic reforms and encouraging the economic empowerment of Zimbabwean citizens are not mutually

Fuel demand increases 30pc

Business Writer The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has raised the weekly foreign currency allocation for fuel imports after demand increased by 30 percent, Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya has

MMCZ to auction diamonds to Zimbabwean buyers next week

Ishemunyoro Chingwere Business Reporter The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), will next week conduct a diamond auction for local buyers in fulfilment of Government’s directive that 10 percent of

ZB seeks $35m lines of credit to revive nostro accounts

Business Writer zB Financial Holdings is seeking $35 million lines of credit to revive its nostro accounts and also to fund local energy projects, chief executive Ronald Mutandagayi has said. Mr

No more bailouts for parastatals

Kudzanai Sharara Taking Stock Last week Finance and Economic Planning Minister Patrick Chinamasa presented the country’s 2018 National Budget that was seen by many as progressive and capable of

Tongogara: A general victorious in war and peace

KGVI Barracks was last week renamed after the late National Hero Josiah Magama Tongogara. We take a look at what made him the great leader he became? Where did he…

IDC continues to apply ‘4 D’ strategy for recapitalisation

Business Writer The Industrial Development Corporation is willing to be diluted in order to recapitalise its businesses, general manager, Benjamin Kumalo, who is three months into the job, has

Understand business and market cycles

By 2030 the Sensex and Nifty would have crossed many milestones, like they did in the past. Long-term investors should have this big picture in mind when they

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