04 Mar 2015 20h00 South African stocks pulled back on Wednesday weighed down by defensive stocks as traders sold off shares in health care providers Netcare and Mediclinic. Read more
12h32 Revenue jumped 51% to R18 billion (R12 billion) and gross profit was 52% higher at R8.5 billion (R5.6 billion). Operating profit grew by 50% to R4.3 billion (R2.9 billion).Profit attributable to equity holders increased to R2.5 billion (R1.9 billion). In addition, headline earnings per share
11h37 Standard Bank posted a 20 percent rise in profit last year, after stripping out the loss-making global markets division it is selling, and surprised investors by raising its dividend 12 percent.
12h53 Gold steadied around $1,200 an
ounce on Thursday after a three-day losing streak, as investors
remained cautious ahead of a European Central Bank meeting set
to give details on its massive bond-buying programme and the
release of key U.S. economic data.
11h37 The euro hit an 11-year low
against the dollar and the region's stocks nudged higher on
Thursday, as the European Central Bank prepared to provide the
finer details of its soon-to-be-launched 1 trillion euro
stimulus plan.
11h58 South Africa's biggest insurer by value Sanlam Ltd is working on acquisitions worth over 2 billion rand ($170 million) in the rest of Africa and other emerging markets, its chief executive said on Thursday.
13h43 European shares rose on
Thursday, with a batch of robust company results from firms
including supermarket Carrefour and fund manager
Schroders boosting sentiment.
13h11 Ukraine's parliament passed a law on Thursday to increase the size of the armed forces by a third as Kiev fights pro-Russian separatists in the east.
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Sharenet Securities are pleased to announce that their clients are now able to place stop-loss orders as well edit existing orders.
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Dear Clients,
As of 1 January 2015, the JSE will be instituting an increase across all their services. Sharenet, as from the same date (1 January 2015) will similarly be initiating an increase. We have managed to keep the increase down to 6.9%... Read more
Last month we looked at how JSE listed ETFs can give South African investors exposure to different asset classes. In this, the final installment of the series, we will look at the remaining 3 of 5... Read more
Welcome to the March issue of MarketViews.
In his post, Dwaine van Vuuren from PowerStocks Research calculates that load-shedding has resulted in losses of a whopping R12 billion to the SA... Read more
Studies in behavioural finance have found that women are far less likely to take risky gambles than men, and that female fund managers, on average, outperform their male counterparts. Read more
The losses to the South African economy tallied R1 billion over the Valentines weekend alone, after 14 hours of Stage-2 load-shedding on Saturday 14th February, 4 hours of Stage-2 load-shedding on... Read more
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