06 Dec 2013 20h00 Local markets
The JSE All Share had risen 0.59% by noon on Friday, with gains in resource shares leading the upwards trend. Read more
Another couple of reasons why today's PE ratio can't be compared to that of past...resource shares which have cyclical earnings and hence lower PE are...
So based on the current price of Tencent and Mail.ru (in Russia) the market is assigning a negative value to the remainder of the NPN portfolio i.e....
Yes I am but are wondering whether it is not time to lock in some profit...but NPN has lagged Tencent to such an extent that the current NPN rump is...
South Africa's rand ended the week firmer on Friday, bouncing back from oversold levels that saw the currency fall to a 4-1/2 year low after upbeat U.S. jobs data.
South African stocks rose for the third straight day on Friday, largely unfazed by the death of Nelson Mandela, the nation's first democratically elected president.
U.S. stocks soared on Friday,
with the Dow and the S&P 500 ending a five-day losing streak
after a robust jobs report gave traders confidence that the
economic recovery was gaining strength.
Global equity markets surged and
the dollar rose against the yen on Friday after
stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data gave investors confidence
the economy is strong enough to withstand an expected reduction
in Federal Reserve stimulus.
16h31 European Central Bank board member
Joerg Asmussen has backed German Finance Minister Wolfgang
Schaeuble's call for governments to keep scrutinising the
banking sector despite complaints that they have already gone
far enough.
01h49 U.S. companies are sounding the
alarm on fourth-quarter earnings, lowering profit estimates just
as the stock market is poised to end its best year since 1998.
16h22 Fourteen Islamist women jailed for 11 years for demonstrating in Egypt will be released after a court slashed their sentences in a case that had outraged opposition groups and human rights campaigners, judicial sources said on Saturday.
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