🌍 Worldwide Markets Episode 650 – 1 October 2025
Hosted by Simon Brown
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🔑 Key Topics This Week
📈 Purple Group* & EasyEquities
- Purple Group share price up ~150% this year 🚀
- Results driven by non-revenue income (inactivity fees & loyalty program)
- Strong client acquisition via Capitec & Discovery Bank partnerships 🏦
- Trading volumes soaring in a bullish market 💹
Purple Group | YTD to close 29 Sep 25
💰 Top 40 hits 100,000
- Thanks to gold miners & PGMs ⛏️
- AngloGold Ashanti* up nearly 200% in 2025 ✨
- Bitcoin also at record highs: $110k – $115k ₿
🇿🇦 Bull case for SA Inc.
- Eskom turns profit ⚡, load shedding largely behind us
- FAFTA gray list exit expected late October ✅
- Stronger rand & softer oil price supporting consumers ⛽
- Lower inflation, potential rate cuts in the US vs. SA rates hold 💵
- Bond yields easing = cheaper government borrowing 💸
🛒 Boxer trading update
- Like-for-like sales up 5.3%, turnover +13.9% 📊
- EPS guidance strong but valuation looks pricey vs. Shoprite* 🍏
🤖 Nvidia’s* self-dealing investments
- Billions poured into OpenAI, CoreWeave & Mistral 🧠
- Risks of dot-com style “self-dealing” re-emerging ⚠️
- Simon remains a cautious Nvidia shareholder
📉 Global delistings trend
- JSE listings halved over 20 years 📉
- US market also down from 8,000+ to ~4,000 listings
- Private equity & venture capital keep firms private longer ⏳
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📝 Simon’s Notes
- Obsidian vs Evernote: experimenting with second-brain systems 📚🧠
- Thanks for all listener feedback 🙏
🎙️ Closing
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