If your are interested in trading South African equities online, then look
no further than
PSG - one of the
cheapest and probably the best. Other discount options are
Sharenet
and Tradek,
with most of the traditional brokerage houses also having online
offerings.
Financial information
varies from the long term macro economic view to the specific minute by
minute changes in shares and money markets.
Daily Updates
For daily
stuff
Sharenet or
Moneymax is your best bet. They have a number of subscriber sections but also a
good
free page which
gives spot prices, graphs, advisories and recommendations.
If you are
interested in daily feeds and stock analysis packages then look at
EasySoft,
Sharenet
or
Market-Web. They are trying to sell you
something but do offer demo downloads.
Another free data
site that gives great financial editorial is ZA Finance -
www.zafinance.com.
The table below gives a list of the main US centric sites
for daily economic updates.
On a weekly basis,
currently the best source of South African information is the
Financial Mail. This has
news, views, company reports and assessments and best of all a searchable
database of all previous reports. The Sunday Times now has the complete
Business Times Online
. The
WOZA
site has a good cross section of economic reporting.
Business Day is also a
good watering point.
The table below gives
a list of the main US centric sites for weekly/monthly economic updates.
If you want the big picture, like
where the economy is going (Watch out for that cliff! What cliiiiiiiiiiiiifff?)
then check out the
Reserve Bank
and
Old Mutual
reports.
The table below gives a list of
the main US centric sites for economic reports.
