JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: How many shares to buy?

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Kumba (JSE code: KIO) results saw production down, but with the average selling price up 57% at US$108 / tonne - they shot the lights out. But this is surely the top here? Rumours are that Vale has iron ore on the water heading for China and slower Chinese GDP may hit demand, ...
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Podcast: Where are the sellers?

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares S&P500 above 3,000 and Dow Jones above 27,000. EOH (JSE code: EOH) have found R1.2billion of bad deals over 4 years, 2013-2017. A new dawn, I think so, but I would add a very slow dawn. Platinum starting to look decent? We have higher lows and two higher highs. A close above US$910 ...
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Podcast: Hello longest economic expansion ever

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares CSEW40* change confirmed for next Wednesday, it'll now be SMART. Trade peace, kinda ~ for now. In classic Trump style, lots of huffing, puffing and threatening the blow the house down. Until a 'deal' is reached. Afrimat (JSE code: AFT) walks away from the Universal Coal deal. No details, but likely they didn't ...
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Podcast: Naspers or Prosus?

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares The Top40 is up almost 20% since the lows of November and over 12% year-to-date. But instead it feels all gloom and doom. Wescoal (JSE code: WSL) results look horrid, but they had strike issues when they employed a new contractor and that hit production and the leverage impact seriously hit HEPS. But ...
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Podcast: The Rand blame game

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Old Mutual (JSE code: OMU) has fired suspended CEO Peter Moyo and detailed what went wrong. The short version is that the company Moyo founded (NMT group), was CEO of and chair since taking up CEO at Old Mutual paid two dividends when they should in the first instance paid Old Mutual as ...
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Podcast: Suspended, now what?

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Solid Stor-Age (JSE code: SSS) results from a stock I have largely ignored and been wrong about. Interesting TymeBank presentation from African Rainbow Capital (JSE code: AIL). Lonmin (JSE code: LON) is gone, taken over by Sibanye Gold (JSE code: SGL). Lonmin has a consolidation adjusted all time high of over R33,000, exiting ...
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Podcast: The GDP horror

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares US Fed has now promised a rate cut. This boomed markets but under lying the statement is the acceptance that trade wars are hurting the US economy. Horror Q1 GDP number at -3.2%. We knew it would be bad, thanks to aggressive load shedding during the period. But nobody expected this bad. The ...
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Podcast: Boiler room scams are back

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Rough month. We're ending May (well Wednesday mid morning, so 2.5 trading days still to go) up 3.5% for the year, but we started May up 11.8%. No don't quote me rhymes. Astral Foods (JSE code: ARL) issued a SENS detailing issues with municipal water and the cost to the group. They've also ...
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Podcast: Stock and thoughts

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Says Upcoming events; 23 May ~ JSE Power Hour: Mastering stop losses with Trader Petri 30 May ~ JSE Power hour: Hard question. Better Answers 20 June ~ JSE Power Hour: Trade the trade wars Coronation* (JSE code; CML) results about as expected and it looks like they're already moving up off the bottom of the ...
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Podcast: Trade wars

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Long4Life* (JSE code: L4L) results. Good and lots of cash to spend. Calgro M3 (JSE code: CGR) results. Horror show. Upcoming events; 23 May ~ JSE Power Hour: Mastering stop losses with Trader Petri 30 May ~ JSE Power hour: Hard question. Better Answers * I hold ungeared positions. Download the audio file here Subscriber ...