The South African Reserve Bank kept the policy repurchase rate unchanged at 8.25% at the March Monetary Policy Committee meeting and kept its forecasts largely unchanged, writes Isaah Mhlanga.

Technocrats and market watchers, including myself, have a liking for accuracy to the fourth decimal place, which makes sense when dealing with currencies and trades of a couple of billion

The minister of finance will on Wednesday table the 2024/25 budget in a challenging global and domestic environment. These challenges necessitate hard choices and trade-offs that will be complicated by the upcoming general elections, writes Isaah Mhlanga.

Independence is demonstrated by decisions during election years, even though the debt-to-GDP ratio is less prudent

This year will likely be one of the most challenging for policymakers, and very volatile for financial markets.

As usual, when GDP statistics were released this week, there were various analyses of what this means for South Africa.

Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) for October surprised to the upside, jumping to 5.9% year on year, up from 5.4% in September and higher than the market expectation of 5.6%.

With a little over 30 days to December 15, when many South Africans go on leave, it is useful to assess where we are in global markets, writes Isaah Mhlanga

Are offshore investors dumping SA? The data does not support this, writes Isaah Mhlanga

The conflict is likely to drive up energy prices, which will fuel inflation. Our partnership with Iran in Brics also raises concerns, writes Isaah Mhlanga