A Brief Review of the First Quarter of 2014 and Events That Moved the South African Market
While we are constantly bombarded with news of crises in every corner of the world – from tensions in the Ukraine to missing planes – it is hard to keep track of which events are affecting us right down to the so-called bottom dollar.
To simplify matters, here is a brief look at some of the occurrences and currency shifts that have shaped the markets in a rather eventful (and as always, unpredictable) way in the first quarter of 2014: