Season 6 Episode 4

Budget speech preview with Momentum Investment economist, Sanisha Packirisamy

23 February 2022 · 23:34 min

Sanisha Packirisamy is an economist at Momentum Investments with more than 10 years of experience in the investments industry. She is an expert at turning evolving global and local macroeconomic trends into economic insights and assessing their impact on financial markets for a range of internal… and external stakeholders.In this episode of Business Talk, Packirisamy gives her impressions of the SONA and discusses the outlook for SA’s sovereign rating given what we are expecting from the national budget speech on Wednesday (23 February). She also gives her take on the benefits and disadvantages of an extension to social grants,. She also talks about fiscal consolidation and debt stabilization in the country and provides insights into the biggest risks to the global economic outlook. Show more