January 2019

South Africa Manufacturing Sees Tentative Recovery South Africa’s manufacturing sector is showing signs of a tentative recovery. Manufacturing production increased by 1.6% year-on-year in November, according to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA), while respondents in the Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) expect business conditions to improve in six months’ time, for the first time since July 2018. The […]

Trump Hits the Wall Commentary: 14th January 2019  If President Trump invokes emergency powers to build his wall, it could end the government shutdown, but at what cost? The US government has been in limbo since a standoff between the Republicans and the Democrats over the funding of the $5.7bn wall at the US-Mexico border.

Business Risk on the Increase – Debtors Books By Paul Jooste, Director at Prestige Credit, a provider of credit insurance services   A lack of planning and failure to identify risk as well as the dynamic global environment in which businesses now operate are some of the major reasons that we are seeing a business