🔥 Inflation shocker 🇿🇦
📈 Purple Group flying
🚗 Vehicle sales smash expectations
🥇 Gold miners printing cash
🤯 Trump fires BLS head
🪙 Only 2 MPs hold crypto?!
🎧 Catch it all on the latest episode of Worldwide Markets with Simon Brown!
SARB has not bought gold in two decades | Which JSE stocks will be hit by tariffs?
💥 Tariffs hit SA exports, which stocks?
💸 SARB not cutting rates fast enough
🥇 Why hasn’t the Reserve Bank bought gold in 20 years?
📈 New 100% capital-protected investment from Standard Bank
🚗 Chinese cars are cheap, loaded & coming fast
📉 Alphabet results + looming antitrust rulings
📊 Smart insights, sharp takes – with Simon Brown
🎙️ Powered by Standard Bank & Shyft
Is a Lower Inflation target a Bad Idea? Afrimat Offering Value?
📉 Lower inflation target: smart move or policy risk?
💵 Weaker US dollar = tech stock winners
🛠️ Sibanye’s recycling deal 💡
🪙 PGMs on the rise, Afrimat looking 🔍 undervalued
🏢 Hyprop’s bold bid for MAS PLC
What’s with Bitcoin Treasury Companies? | Ouch US CPI and Chinese Home Prices
🚨 US inflation ticks up, China housing sinks 🏘️, and Bitcoin treasury companies 🤯 — what are they, and why do they exist? PGMs shine ✨, Nvidia hits $4T 🚀, and Trump throws tariffs at copper and SA 🇿🇦. Another packed show this week with Simon Brown.
Trump’s Big (and Messy) Plan to Save America and Reduce the Deficit and Debt
In this week’s Worldwide Markets, Simon Brown unpacks Trump’s bold (and chaotic) economic strategy: tariffs, spending cuts, deregulation, and the elusive Mar-a-Lago Accord. Is there a method to the madness, or just more noise from the campaign trail? Recorded from sunny Durban 🌞 with a side of curry and chaos.
Market Surprises, Trump’s Tariffs & Commodities Soaring | 2025 Year-to-date returns reviewed
Simon Brown unpacks a wild first half of 2025:
💵 The dollar’s worst start in 50 years
🔥 Platinum up 52%
📊 SA markets +17%
🌐 Europe & Asia rallying
🇺🇸 Trump’s tariffs rocking global flows
EAC, the only fee that matters | Gold or PGMs?
💸 Are your investments silently bleeding fees?
🎧 This week Simon unpacks the Effective Annual Cost (EAC) and why it’s the only fee that really matters.
🛢️ Oil tanks nearly 20%
⚙️ Sasol gets smoked
💱 Rand strengthens
🏦 Fed plays the data game
🪙 PGMs shine as platinum hits 10-year highs
🥇 Gold dips but holds the trend
📲 Powered by Standard Bank Global Markets and Shyft
Oil bad news for global economy | Tariff D-Day is 3 weeks away
⚡ Middle East tensions send Brent crude soaring past $75 – but is $100 oil on the horizon? Simon Brown breaks down the Strait of Hormuz risk that has traders on high alert.
⏰ TARIFF D-DAY: Just 3 weeks until Trump’s July 9 deadline hits. With only UK and China deals locked in, global markets brace for potential chaos. What happens next?
🏦 Structured Products Alert – Standard Bank’s new China & Gold Miners products (limited time!)
✈️ Boeing Reality Check – Why this aerospace giant might be “uninvestable”
🚗 Automotive Shift – The rise of Chinese & Indian cars in SA
📊 FOMC Preview – Why rate cuts are off the table
Results Show SA Consumer Improving | Renewable Energy Listing With ±9% DY
This week, Simon Brown unpacks the numbers behind a recovering South African consumer, an attractive new renewable energy listing, and the latest moves in platinum group metals (PGMs). Plus, CrowdStrike’s results, Omnia’s cash pile (and SARS headache), and what falling bond yields mean for SA.
The anatomy of a financial crisis, 1987 to date | What happened, what changed and what we learnt
Simon looks back over almost forty years of market crises that he’s invested through.
He shares the lessons he learnt, what caused the crisis and what the response was. This includes; 1987, EM Tigers of 1998, the DotCom bust in 2000, Global Financial Crisis of 2008/9, the 2020 pandemic and finally the 2025 Trump tariff crisis.