Quattro News - Wills & Estates
July 16, 2025
The Rand continues to hover just below R18.00/USD as US inflation climbs to 2.7% in June. Find out how global markets and the FED outlook are shifting, and what it means for South African investors.
July 8, 2025
Relationships are our greatest treasure. Irrespective of the polls or research we access, relationships, particularly with family, take precedence over everything else. Material things only serve as a substitute for human connection. Most people’s top 5 also include health and living a life of meaning. a
July 2, 2025
In a twist worthy of the tabloids, Scotland may soon host a “Seagull Summit” after repeated reports of aggressive gull attacks. Former Tory leader Douglas Ross warned that inaction might lead to fatalities, urging the government to act before someone is “killed by a gull.”
Meanwhile, back in financial markets, the Rand continues to fly high.
June 30, 2025
It’s the last day of June and with it the first half of 2025 is coming to a close. Safe to say it has been a good six months for the Rand as we opened the year at R18.86 to the Dollar and find ourselves at R17.80 this morning, this as the Dollar Index is about to notch up its worst first half of a year since the 1970’s.
June 27, 2025
Windows users will know and fear Microsoft’s “blue screen of death”, a screen that appears when there’s a critical error with your operating system and which requires a restart to (hopefully) fix the problem. This error screen has been around since the early 1990’s but in a few months’ time it will be retired, never to plague our computers again, but it will be replaced with a new black error screen so we are not safe just yet.