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Your S&P 500 ETF moved 3% but the US market was flat. Or the Nasdaq rallied and your ETF barely budged. The answer is the rand. Here's how rand hedge ETF pricing actually works, and why understanding it will make you a better investor.

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📉 US personal savings rate at 2.6%
🛢️ The Iran deal collapses again
🏦 SARB hikes prime to 10.5%
🚀 Naspers & Prosus fly
🛒 SPAR's horror update
🌏 The year-to-date scoreboard
📊 Stocks on the move

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In this Standard Bank Power Hour, Simon Brown unpacks what was actually knowable in 2002, what was luck, and what can be turned into a repeatable process for spotting the next great compounder.

He walks through the tests that separate a genuine multi-bagger from a story stock, then applies the framework live to current local and offshore names.

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Nasdaq bent its index rules to fit SpaceX's IPO, and every South African holding STXNDQ is about to own a piece. Whether the price is right or not. When the rules fit the company instead of the company fitting the rules, passive investors live with the consequences.

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📊 The Dow Jones turns 130
🚀 SpaceX IPO on 12 June at $1.75 trillion
🇿🇦 Moody's lifts South Africa's outlook
🏘️ Balwin delisting at below NAV
📺 Canal+ listing next Wednesday
✝️ Pope Leo XIV writes a letter on AI
🛢️ Oil settling around $90–$95
📈 Stocks on the move

Hosted by Simon Brown

Sponsored by Standard Bank Global Markets R...