![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=300&cropratio=2:1&image=/news_images_sn/1295357611.jpg "Gold ingots stand in a row")
08h09 Spot gold edged lower on Thursday, taking a breather after hitting a three-month high in the previous session, while sentiment remains supported on hopes of further monetary easing after sluggish economic data from the euro zone and China. Full story
08h31 The dollar dipped
against the yen on Thursday, inching away from a seven-month
high hit the previous day, after profit-taking and selling by
Japanese exporters. Full story
08h06 South Korean stocks finished
lower on Thursday as foreign investors turned net sellers,
dumping technology issues such as Samsung Electronics
, which lost 3.1 percent. Full story
If upcoming earnings from
U.S. retailers are as unimpressive as the rest of the profit
season has been, Wall Street could face a tough time justifying
a stock market at nine-month highs. Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=300&cropratio=4:1&image=/newsimages/2012-02-23T020518Z_1_BTRE81M05SY00_RTROPTP_3_OUKWD-UK-USA-CAMPAIGN-DEBATE.JPG "U.S. Republican presidential candidate Santorum listens as Romney speaks during the Republican presidential candidates debate in Mesa")
08h20 Mitt Romney is fighting his way back into the driving seat. . . Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=300&cropratio=4:1&image=/newsimages/2012-02-23T000214Z_4_BTRE81K1A0Z00_RTROPTP_3_OUKWD-UK-SYRIA.JPG "Damaged armoured vehicle belonging to Syrian army is seen in Syrian district of al-Khalidya in Homs")
02h02 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on. . . Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=140&image=/newsimages/2012-02-22T113754Z_1_AJOE81L0WB800_RTROPTP_3_OZABS-NIGERIA-ECONET-BHARTI-20120222.JPG "A worker cleans a Bharti Airtel logo inside its shop in Kolkata")
South Africa-based Econet Wireless is seeking at least $3.1 billion in damages from Bharti Airtel in a dispute over ownership of. . . Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=140&cropratio=4:3&image=/news_images_sn/1317717632.jpg "Man walks past the Johannesburg stock exchange offices in Sandton")
South African stocks edged down half a percent on Wednesday, as shares of Impala Platinum fell after the miner said its. . . Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=140&cropratio=4:3&image=/news_images_sn/1297157604.jpg "Looking out over Sydney harbor towards the opera house at dusk")
08h19 Australian shares broke
a four-day winning streak to ease 0.2 percent on Thursday as
banks and miners fell, hurt by concerns higher oil. . . Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=140&cropratio=4:3&image=/news_images_sn/1295360613.jpg "Tokyo Stock Exchange's Market Center, where floor trading took place until 1999.")
08h06 Japan's Nikkei share average
advanced on Thursday to end just below 9,600, with a softer yen
underpinning market sentiment and boosting risk appetite.. . . Full story
08h02 South Africa is under no pressure to issue a new global bond as proceeds from a well-subscribed sale in January will meet its foreign commitments in the first few months of. . . Full story
07h53 Shares in Bharti Airtel Ltd fell as much as 4 percent on Thursday after South Africa-based Econet Wireless said it is seeking at least $3.1 billion in damages in a dispute. . . Full story
07h51 South African diversified miner Exxaro on Thursday reported a 40 percent rise in full-year profit, boosted by strong demand and higher prices for the majority of its commodities and despite negative. . . Full story
00h27 London's Brent crude oil
hit nine-month highs on Wednesday on worries over Iran's growing
confrontation with the West, while gold prices rose to
three-months peaks as technical charts pointed to a bull run.. . . Full story
Mexican Finance Minister Jose
Antonio Meade will host a two-day meeting of G20 finance
ministers and central bankers at the weekend.. . . Full story
08h32 Kenya's NIC Bank on Thursday posted a 38 percent rise in full-year pretax profit to 3.6 billion shillings and said it planned to raise cash through a rights issue and would. . . Full story
07h56 Commercial International Bank (CIB), Egypt's biggest private bank by assets, said on Wednesday its consolidated net profit fell 20.1 pct in 2011 as the economy slowed in the wake of Egypt's. . . Full story
![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=100&image=/news_images_sn/1295339089.jpg "Gold bars are displayed at South Africa's Rand Refinery in Germiston")
Gold jumped to a
three-month high on Wednesday, reversing early losses
after bullish technical factors triggered fund buying, and
platinum prices hit their highest in five months on supply
worries.. . . Full story![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=100&image=/newsimages/2012-02-22T175603Z_1_AJOE81L1DTH00_RTROPTP_3_OZABS-NIGERIA-REVENUES-20120222.JPG "An engineer conducts routine checks on oil tanks at a refinery in Wuhan")
Nigeria earned gross crude oil revenues of 666.32 billion naira in January, down from 892.70 billion in December owing to production outages, the accountant general said on Wednesday.. . . Full story![[IMAGE]](http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/image.php?width=100&image=/newsimages/2012-02-22T173355Z_1_AJOE81L1CSM00_RTROPTP_3_OZABS-SUDAN-OIL-NORWAY-20120222.JPG "SUDANESE WORKERS MAINTAIN OIL PIPELINE.")
South Sudan's plans to build a pipeline to Kenya or Djibouti to end dependency on Sudan's oil industry seems unrealistic in the short-term, showing the need to find a deal with. . . Full story 08h30 Away from the markets' fixation
with the debts of Greece and other governments, concern is
growing at the painfully slow progress Europe is making in
tackling a much bigger mountain of corporate and household. . . Full story
08h08 Turkish mobile phone
operator Turkcell said 2011 net profit fell 33
percent due to the effect of devaluation and hyperinflation in
Belarus, where subsidiaries operate, while revenue rose 4.1
percent.. . . Full story
07h57 The World Bank on Wednesday blacklisted two subsidiaries of French engineering company Alstom for the next three years for "improper payment" in a Zambian hydropower project funded by the global development. . . Full story
07h48 Shares of Esprit
Holdings Ltd jumped nearly 12 percent to the highest
in five months after the Europe-focused fashion group posted
forecast-beating earnings for the fiscal first half, and said it
was on track to. . . Full story
07h41 Malaysian crude palm oil
futures edged down on Thursday as optimism following a bailout
deal for Greece faded and investor concern about slowing global
growth curbed commodity demand, although losses were limited by
recovering palm. . . Full story
08h27 Europe-focused retailer
Esprit Holdings Ltd posted a 74 percent fall
in first-half net profit as a deepening euro zone debt
crisis battered demand, but the result beat forecasts and sent
its shares to. . . Full story
08h09 Myanmar will launch a
second global tender for six onshore oil and gas blocks as the
reforming Southeast Asian country seeks to tap more foreign
investment, two sources with direct knowledge of the deals. . . Full story
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08h05 Asian shares and the euro fell on Thursday on concerns about global growth driven by higher oil prices and data showing the euro zone may slip into recession, fanning fresh worries. . . Full story 08h01 Taiwan's financial
regulator is considering varying the limits on stakes Chinese
banks can hold in local ones as it faces calls from Taiwan
institutions to allow closer ties to boost their chances of
access to. . . Full story
07h54 Mozambique's Prime Minister Aires Aly said in Tokyo on Thursday his nation plans to start construction of a coal terminal at the northern port of Nacala in the next few months,. . . Full story
08h08 Brent crude held steady on Thursday, near a nine-month high of about $123, as supply worries caused by heightened tension between Iran and the West offset concern that a slowdown in. . . Full story
07h59 As Republican
presidential candidates toss barbs at Barack Obama over
expensive gasoline, the U.S. president and his team are going on
the offensive with a strategy to divert blame and prepare voters
for higher costs.. . . Full story
07h29 Brent crude held steady
on Thursday, near a nine-month high of about $123, as supply
worries caused by heightened tension between Iran and the West
offset concern that a slowdown in the global economy. . . Full story
06h21 VietinBank,
Vietnam's largest partly private lender by assets, has nearly
halved its forecast for gross profit growth in 2012 to 11
percent, according to a draft bank document, after the central
bank set limits on. . . Full story
05h42 South Korea's top Internet
provider, KT Corp plans to charge data-heavy content
providers such as Google's Youtube and Internet-enabled
TV service operators to subsidise costly network upgrades, a KT
executive said on Thursday.. . . Full story
08h09 The yen edged up versus the dollar on Thursday but still hovered close to a 7-month low, with the dollar supported by demand from Japanese importers.. . . Full story
06h43 Most emerging Asian
currencies dipped on Thursday on worries about a slowing global
economy and higher oil prices, although some currency players
were looking to buy on dips on expectation of sustained inflows.. . . Full story
05h51 China should seize the
opportunity to free-up capital account controls as the rewards
of liberalisation outweigh the risks, said a report by the
People's Bank of China statistics department published on
Thursday.. . . Full story
02h41 The South Korean won fell
against the dollar early on Thursday, hit by a global selloff of
risky assets on renewed concerns about a slump in the euro zone
economies.. . . Full story
The yen stumbled to its
lowest against the U.S. dollar in more than seven months on
Wednesday, undermined by recent monetary easing in Japan, a rise
in oil prices, and worsening economic fundamentals in. . . Full story
