23 Apr 2014 20h00 South African shares ended mixed on Wednesday after earlier reaching record highs despite an hour-long technical glitch at the start of trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Read more
16h32 Investment in infrastructure and natural resources will continue to underpin economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa, although capital outflows sparked by tighter global financial conditions pose a risk to growth, the IMF said on Thursday.
15h44 South Africa on Thursday raised its forecast of maize output for 2014 to 13.029 million tonnes from a previous estimate of 12.955 million tonnes after favourable weather conditions.
16h28 U.S. stocks were flat in
volatile trading on Thursday, with indexes cutting early gains
on a resurgence of concerns related to Ukraine, though Apple
jumped following its results.
16h18 New signs of an escalation in
tensions in Ukraine hit European stock markets on Thursday, with
Germany's DAX index underperforming the broader market
pullback.
16h34 Communist Vietnam is suddenly
Apple Inc's hottest market after its sales growth
tripled in the first three months of the year, a rate five times
faster than in India where it is spending heavily in a battle
for market share.
16h25 The Afghanistan presidential
vote is poised to go to a run-off, the election chief said on
Thursday, after the latest tally of ballots showed neither
Abdullah Abdullah nor Ashraf Ghani securing an outright
majority.
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