The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
The wide gap between the price of diesel and that of petrol could be an indication that the government is planning to phase out vehicles that use petrol from the…
The stock market which had become a safe haven for investors over the past two years is now lagging behind escalating inflation which soared to 228 percent last month. The…
The parallel market will not disappear until a holistic economic revival programme encompassing all sectors and markets of the economy is put in place. A parallel initiative to stabilise the…
The shortage of foreign currency and the accumulation of arrears is discouraging foreign investment as investors are unable to repatriate their dividends. By the end of last year an estimated…
Foreign exchange remains the single most important factor hobbling the performance of the economy. Concessions should therefore be made and consensus on the way forward should be forged if the…
The Merchant Bank of Central Africa (MBCA) says after two years of negative growth charactised by critical shortages of foreign currency, fuel and basic foodstuffs, high inflation and unemployment, it…
Metropolitan Bank, which has been a strong advocate for land reform, says thousands of previously disadvantaged Zimbabweans who have been empowered by the land reform programme have the capacity to…
Interfin Holdings, a financial services group which incorporates merchant banking, insurance, consumer finance, stockbroking and asset management, had a net profit of $3.6 billion, a 1 663 percent increase from…
Century Holdings, another financial services company which is expanding into the region, saw its International Transfer company in Botswana make a loss of $55 million but it says this was…
Royal Bank, one of the latest commercial banks in the country, made a profit of $70.2 million in its first eight months of operation, but it already had seven branches,…