World markets
Markets calmer after vaccine-induced surge
US pharma giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Monday revealed that their vaccine candidate was 90% effective in preventing COVID-19.
London and Paris wobbled in holiday-shortened trade on New Year's Eve - but nursed dizzying double-digit annual falls after an exceptionally volatile 2018.
In the United States, Washington D.C. is the 20th largest city in terms of population.
The United States, as one of the world’s great innovation powerhouses, is very well positioned in this new competitive landscape.
A common narrative for the start of the financial crisis suggests that credit agencies downplayed the riskiness of RMBS, drawing in lenders who did not appreciate their intrinsic risk.
Americans have yet to embrace the US stock market with the same fervour as before, holding fewer individual stocks and putting less money into equities overall.
In the developed world, 2017 will likely be recalled as a period of stark contrast, with many economies experiencing growth acceleration, alongside political fragmentation.
As in our April forecast, the World Economic Outlook Update projects 3.5% growth in global output for this year and 3.6% for next.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI this week marked its longest run of consecutive record-high closing prices in 30 years.
Economic strategist Tumisho Grater says she was hoping for Trump's speech to provide more details on his policies.
Markets fear that a Donald Trump win could cause global economic and trade turmoil.
With investors worried a Trump victory could cause economic and global uncertainty, the US dollar sank.
Foreign loan debt would rise to 10.6% of gross domestic product in 2016/17 from 9.9% in 2015/16.
Kenya secured the continued free access to EU markets after it signed the deal with the EU.
Economist Dawie Roodt says the contradicting messages from government show a lack of leadership.
UBS retained its highly-prized first place in 2015, staying nearly $300 billion ahead Bank of America.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slid 1.8 percent to its lowest since late 2011.
The JSE closed on a good footing as most markets around the world only traded for half the day.
France has the largest number of tourists in the world and the sector accounts for almost 7.5 percent of GDP.