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SHARENET VIEWS: Possible scenario: HAR failed to bounce on lower slope of its bull channel - as it has done a few times before - and breached it instead. On Tuesday it closed below our negative breakout level at 4,610cps, but its mega-oversold position has triggered a recovery.

SHARENET VIEWS: Global IPO (Initial Public Offering) proceeds thus far in 2016 are running at just below $50 billion, this is way below the average experienced in the last decade. There are clearly some important months to follow before the calendar year closes but there will need to be an acceleration in issues if we are to surpass the previous low year, which was 2008 when $85.2 billion was raised in new issues.

SHARENET VIEWS: Sticking your course over the long term is a very valuable lesson for investors, albeit, a difficult one in practise. Juxtapose this with another valuable lesson of not holding onto mistakes for too long and it becomes apparent how complicated the investment decision can be for the investor, particularly in tough markets. In order to get the maximum benefit of your investment, you need to stick with the investment over the long term, even during painful periods of underperformance which make it more challenging to determine whether you are holding on to a mistake or not.

SHARENET VIEWS: The earnings of JSE listed shares has collapsed 26% from their Jan 2015 peak. Since the JSE has essentially gone sideways since then, P/E ratios have skyrocketed to lifetime highs. However recent albeit small improvements to earnings hint at a possible bottom of the contraction. An improvement in earnings is crucial to laying the groundwork for further gains in the JSE.

SHARENET VIEWS: When one looks around SA we are a pretty well endowed economy. For years, we have dominated the gold production market, and being the biggest platinum producer as well as having very useful supplies of coal, silver and uranium. Now thankfully for investors, Sacoil has significant oil reserves, and is listed on the JSE and AIM.

SHARENET VIEWS: Listed equity has delivered strong returns over the past decade. Once investors decide to invest their hard earned money in equities, they are immediately faced with a myriad of investment choices. Active or passive? Large or small cap? Which sector? The list goes on... In this article we’ll shed some light on one of these choices that investor’s face - do you play it safe and put your money with the big players, i.e. the large caps, or take a risk and back the little guys, i.e small and/or mid caps?

SHARENET VIEWS: The hangover of crude oil’s sharp falls in recent years has been evident in the historically low levels of new oil that is currently being discovered. In 2015 for instance, only 10% of the fifty year average amount annually found was discovered and this could well fall even lower in the current year.

SHARENET VIEWS: BOTTOM LINE: MTN has breached the resistance trendline of its major bear trend. It has been range bound between 15,650cps and 11,975cps. Possible scenario: Last week MTN breached key support 11,975cps. However, with the 3-week RSI extremely oversold - we anticipate a recovery soon