Safaricom strong ahead of move to Sh32.00
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Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon which is about the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several...
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It is widely accepted that a company’s reputation is perhaps its most valuable asset. Reputational risk is the possible loss of the organisation’s reputational capital. Imagine that the company has an...
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Safaricom is the big beast at the Nairobi Securities Exchange carrying a market capitalisation of Sh 1.021 trillion which represents 42.63% of the value of the entire exchange. Safaricom has served up...
View ArticleThe capture of a 32-year-old wannabe king and the future price of crude oil
The price of crude oil has surged in New York by 33% since clocking a 2017 low below $44.00 a barrel in late June this year and is at its highest level since July 2015. Brent Crude scaled a...
View Article2017 in the eyes of the markets
As we roll towards the end of the year, Tennyson's poem In Memoriam came to my mindRing out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light:The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild...
View ArticleDavos, Solheim and an outstanding IR Effort out of Southern Africa
My Guest at Mindspeak this Saturday was Erik Solheim the executive director of UN Environment and he was coming all the way from Davos and therefore, I was nervous that he might not make it. And in...
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View ArticleAnnus horribilis [Cash is King]
Vinod Khosla who bagged a billion or two Dollars at Sun Microsystems [When I arrived on the Trading Floor at Credit Suisse First Boston in the early 1990s every computer was a Sun Microsystems...
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