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Sweden - It's been 17 long months but Mercedes-Benz has finally revealed its new mid-sized bakkie in the form of two concept cars at its launch in Stockholm, Sweden. The new X-Class marks the first bakkie from a premium German automaker, at least in recent times. The new dual-cab Mercedes-Benz bakkie has been depicted in two distinct body styles; the Stylish Explorer (more focused on design) and its Powerful Adventurer (a more rugged variant) The new Mercedes-Benz bakkie shares architecture with the new Nissan NP300, though from images it's clearly designed by Daimler. Source: http://wheels24.co.za/wheels24/OffRoad_and_4x4/mercedes-reveals-new-sa-bound-bakkie-meet-the-x-class-20161025

WTF is that? Holy hell. My eyes will never be the same. (It's all US companies thou so not bothered) Once you get past the eye bleed you will notice that at no 41 is Steinhoff which is interesting. Bahahahaha you made it to 41!!! There has to be some sort of an award for this; its not often you come accross a reputable website in 2016 that looks that awful. It often times makes me wonder what exactly is the story there? Developer decided fck it and the project manager was forced to take over? Designer off on leave and backup backend dev had to slash and hack to meet the deadline? What happened it will bother me forever.

WTF is that? Holy hell. My eyes will never be the same. (It's all US companies thou so not bothered)

I need this explained as well, please: JSE:ORL How did Zupta manage this? Insider trading their graph just looks phishy

Can someone explain this to me CLIENTELE LIMITED [JSE:CLI]

I use base64 to save my sprites like the small CSS stuff that I want to cache with the css in the browser like I'll put my common UI icons in base64 in my CSS, then let that whole chunk get cached by the browser. As for webp, I don't think there is anything out there that can match it you can't tell the difference between a webp image and a PNG with alpa yet the one is 900kb and the other one is 33Kb. I just love it, I see firefox did not want to add it due to "browser politics" Google did not want to implement one of Mozilla's technologies a few years back so Mozilla decided they won't support webp so they are killing the web by being children. #ChromeIsLife

Do any of you use the webp image format in your websites yet? I love it I absolutely do, but now I have this irritating issue of neither firefox nor EDGE supporting the webp image format. So now I am lost as to what would be the best way forward I used to like base64 but it's like 30% larger than the original so for years I just sticked to jpeg for web and use PNGs only if I really really need the transparency then webp came along and it was love at first sight, but now it only works in Blink browsers so I need to figure out a way to make it work for all browsers. I was thinking of this: However I get the feeling that this will download both versions and is a bad idea?

I might need to pick some curro up again sold mine at 40 something a while back. I should have kept them damn you Taste holdings!

http://coreshares.co.za/products/coreshares-sp-500/ The CoreShares S&P 500 ETF tracks the S&P 500® Index. The S&P 500® Index was created in 1957 as the first U.S. Market-Cap-weighted index. The S&P 500® index tracks 500 of the top companies in the U.S. economy. All the constituents must be U.S. companies with a market cap of USD 5.3 billion or greater. http://coreshares.co.za/products/coreshares-sp-global-property/ The CoreShares Global Property ETF tracks the S&P Global Property 40 index. The S&P Global Property 40 index provides exposure to the 40 largest global property companies in developed markets that have earnings and dividend stability.

Ek ken niemand in dit deesdae meer nie. Het dit altyd gekyk as 'n kind.

Oh ja!

What happens in March?

I am glad I do not have that anymore had it @14 sold at 13.50

Definitely. I am 80% certain.

Dinge lyk pikdonker vir 7de Laan se toekoms . . . En soos dinge tans staan sal jy nie Maandagaand oudergewoonte voor jou kassie kan inskuif vir die lief en leed van Hillside se mense nie. “Daar is ’n moontlikheid dat 7de Laan van Maandag nie op die lug gaan wees nie weens die SABC wat nog nie *bad word* please do not do that rakte geteken het nie. Al die werknemers is vandag laat weet dat hulle nie die 25ste betaal gaan word nie,” sê ’n werknemer van 7de Laan, wat verkies om anoniem te bly. Nie net sit hulle nog sonder *bad word* please do not do that rakte nie, die akteurs, skrywers en produksiespanne het ook ’n brief gekry waarin hulle aangeraai word om ’n ander plan met hul debietorders te maak, want dit lyk nie of hul salarisse volgende week betaal gaan word nie. “Die probleem is baie sagkens gestel in die memo. 7de Laan se lynbestuurder, Frances Maposa, het met die span vergader en vir ons gesê Danie Odendaal Produksies hou die 7de Laan-episodes vir seisoen 18 (wat Maandag moet begin speel) terug tot die SABC die *bad word* please do not do that rak teken. “Muvhango en 7de Laan is SABC2 se ankerprogramme en bring die meeste geld in, SABC was ook laat met Muvhango se *bad word* please do not do that rak,” voeg die werknemer by. Bron: http://www.huisgenoot.com/vermaak/tv/eksklusief-7de-laan-dalk-van-maandag-nie-meer-op-die-lug-nie/

I will need to actually give this some serious thought. Especially log in credentials to all my "assets"

Out of curiosity; What are the most ideal stocks to add to my portfolio to "cash in" on the downgrade end of year? I have been filling up on Dbx to a point where I now have a ridiculous amount of money in those ETFs that I am actually feeling uncomfortable and have to constantly remind myself that I do not own 2 shares I own 2 ETFs consisting of 100's of shares thus I am diversified.

I want to kill myself when I look at my Dbx portfolio DbxWD - RED DbxJP - Surprisingly RED DbxEU - RED DbxUK - RED DbChin - Soaring Green (Sold it now with this Deutsche Bank's verge of collapse)

It’s the first time that Cell C’s full financial results have been made public. For someone also in the airtime industry this is quite insightful.

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I hear what you are saying, I am just thinking of ways to get a bit of cash/currency type investments into my portfolio for the sake of more diversification and I am totally betting on the rand tanking which it has been doing since forever thus a good bet in my mind would be to go long on anything ZAR/... The FNB account crossed my mind, but I want to stick to EasyEquities so a ETN was my next best thought

I thought it might be good to have a thread all about the infamous ETN. I want to buy the ABSA NewWave GBP Exchange Trade Note. My reasoning is that I feel our ZAR has a one way trajectory and that is down (or up in currency terms) so hedging against the ZAR by buying pounds just sounds right to me? The reason why I picked or am thinking of picking the GBP over the USD is because of the recent #Brexit dip and I am sure they will recover that plus our currency's downfall should equal profit. I am thinking of buying the ZAR/GBP ETN and then once that has recovered I will move it all accross to the ZAR/USD (NewWave USD Exchange Traded Note) since the US is and will be the strongest economy in the world as long as the world works like it does now ie Banks. So now my question comes; What are the pitfalls here? The only ones I see is if ABSA collapses and to me that seems unlikely, but then again so dit the collapse of Deutsche Bank.

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Saturday a report by an anti-graft watchdog into allegations of political interference by friends of President Jacob Zuma was being held at parliament for safe keeping. The release of the potentially explosive report, which the outgoing head of the agency Thuli Madonsela had planned to make public on her last day in office on Friday, was delayed because of a court application by Zuma asking that it remain under wraps so he could review evidence and question witnesses. The ANC said in a statement the report had been handed to parliament and would be given to the new Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, on Monday when she assumes office. “The report, as requested, is currently being kept under lock and key in parliament,” the ANC said. The report looked at the alleged influence of the wealthy, Indian-born Gupta family – close friends of Zuma – regarding the appointment of cabinet ministers and other occupants of high office. Madonsela had announced the probe in June. The family, which has wide-ranging business interests in South Africa, and the president have denied any wrongdoing. The report comes at a time when Zuma’s government is reeling after prosecutors this week ordered Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to appear in court on Nov. 2 to hear fraud charges against him. Gordhan on Friday dismissed the charges as “frivolous”. Madonsela interviewed Gordhan, former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene and deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as part of the probe on Zuma’s links with the Guptas, local media said. In March this year Jonas said the Guptas had offered him Nene’s job, an allegation that led to calls for Zuma to resign. Madonsela has become something of a folk hero in South Africa for her investigations of the rich and powerful and won public support for taking Zuma to task over the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home. Source: http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/madonselas-gupta-report-under-lock-and-key-at-parliament-anc/

Would be a damn shame if it comes to that, STXIND is quite nice (the underlying companies). Although the other ETFs (CTOP50/CSEW40, that momentum one, DIVTRX and this new S&P500) seems more appealing to me now going forward the next 10 years compared to the STXIND's next 10 years?

CTOP50 is capped at 10% Should look at STXIND... 32%. At 36% we won't be able to use it in our TFSA's anymore What happens to people who have existing TFSA's with IND assuming it goes to 36% or do you think they will introduce caps before that point?