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We take a look at troubled IT group, EOH's latest financial results. The group has seen its share price plunge in recent months after news broke that Microsoft cancelled its Channel Partner agreement due to less than favourable business practices at EOH (and or its subsidiaries).

We take a look at listed agricultural services group, Kaap Agri's latest trading update for the period ending March 2019. A fair chunk of Kaap Agri shares are held by Zeder (PSG Group's agri investment arm).

We take a look at the PE ratio of the JSE All Share Index over time and find that while it hardly moved from February 2019 to March 2019, the longer term trend in the JSE All Share PE ratio is still pointing downwards and that the current PE ratio is closed to the average PE ratio of the JSE All Share Index since the start of 2011.

We take a look at the latest fuel prices announced by the department of energy and it seems the decline in our fuel prices were short lived. With higher international crude oil prices and a weaker Rand the fuel prices are on the uptick again. And sadly for South African consumers the bad news doesn't end there. With new fuel levy and road accident fund increases to be slapped on the April 2019 petrol price to.

We take a look at a report published by Statistics South Africa which aims to measure the extent of South Africa's food security. Food security has become a hot topic ever since the expropriation of land without compensation hit news headlines.

We take a quick look at the announcement by the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) monetary policy committee (MPC) announcement that the REPO rate has been kept unchanged which in turn means the prime lending rate used by banks remains unchanged. But what is the bank's expectations of longer term interest rates?

We take a look at the total income earned by firm size per industry based on the latest quarterly financial statistics results released by Statistics South Africa. Just how much are smaller firms contributing to total income earned on various industries of South Africa's economy?

In our continued series focusing on average prices paid for various products by South African consumers in various provinces, in today's article we focus on the average price per 400g tub of peanut butter as calculated by Statistics South Africa's Consumer Price Index (CPI). So is there a meaningful difference in the price paid per tub of peanut butter in the various provinces? We take a look.

We take a look at two different data sources from Statistics South Africa and use them to estimate just how much money households spent on various products during the 4th quarter of 2018.

We take a look at the latest world markets update as presented by Peregrine Treasury services, as part of our drive to provide readers with more views and opinions.

We take a look at the latest inflation numbers published by Statistics South Africa and focus on the inflation rate of pensioners compared to the official inflation rate.

In this article we focus on the results of a survey published by Statistics South Africa called Survey of Employers and Self Employed. And this particular survey has a large focus area, which is the informal sector and economy of South Africa.

We take a look at the latest mining production and sales numbers and focus on four of South Africa's main commodities mined, being Gold, Cola, Platinum Group Metals (PGM) and Iron Ore. And we find that Coal is the new Gold in South Africa.

We take a look at the latest full year financial results for coal mining giant, Exxaro resources for the period ending December 2018.

We take a look at the JSE All Share Index PE ratio per month since the start of 2008, and while the market PE is above its long term average it is well below its 13 month average.

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