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Enhancing South Africa’s Business Environment to Boost Growth and Create Jobs

March 11, 2026/IMFBlog IMF COUNTRY FOCUS (Credit: Rich Townsend / iStock)  South Africa’s economy has shown resilience in 2025. But growth remains too low to significantly reduce unemployment, which exceeds 30 percent overall and reaches 60 percent among young people. Fast-tracking ongoing reforms of electricity and logistics (under Operation Vulindlela) […]

Mastercard Advances Agentic AI Strategy with Virtual C-Suite, Bringing Executive Level Intelligence to Small Businesses

Virtual CFO will be the first revealed in a growing suite of AI-powered executive roles to make running a business easier and smarter. March 10, 2026/Mastercard      Mastercard is advancing a new era of AI with capabilities that span the full commerce lifecycle, from understanding how money moves to […]

Trump Calms Oil Markets as Hormuz Crisis Persists

March 10, 2026/Oilprice.com Tom Kool Editor, Oilprice.com In this week’s newsletter, we will take a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this week.       We will then look at some of the key market movers early this week before providing you with […]