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Rand weaker as investors dump risky assets
June 1, 2015--The rand has fallen more than 1% against the dollar,
tracking a retreat in emerging market assets after renewed concerns about Greece's financial woes.
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Source: FIN24
New Blueprint Offers Hope of Closing Africa's Infrastructure Deficit
June 1, 2015--Africa Strategic Infrastructure Initiative (ASII) is a three-year project aimed at identifying and accelerating major cross-border infrastructure projects in Africa
Lessons learned offer insight into how region's $100+ billion annual infrastructure deficit can be addressed
Following successful project acceleration of a pilot, the NEPAD Agency will assume leadership of the Initiative from June 2015
The challenge of how to address Africa's massive $100+ billion annual infrastructure deficit is a step closer to being met, following a three-year project by the World Economic Forum aimed at promoting public-private cooperation and identifying solutions to the bottlenecks that cause large infrastructure projects in the region to fail.
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Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
JSE edges lower after slight recovery
May 29, 2015--Stocks on the JSE have been heading lower again,
despite technical analysts' view that the market is ripe for bargain-hunting as various sectors are oversold.
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Source: FIN24
Rand near five-week low ahead of trade data
May 29, 2015--The rand has been a tad weaker against the dollar,
hovering near a five-week low ahead of trade numbers due out later in the day.
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Source: FIN24
Volatile JSE sets stage for mild rally
May 28, 2015--Share prices have again been lower on the JSE, but the market
staged a comeback towards midday.
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Source: FIN24
Rand turns to global markets for direction
May 28, 2015--The rand has been flat against the dollar,
with traders and analysts expecting it to turn to global markets for direction after touching five-week lows.
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Source: FIN24
South Africa: GDP Growth Slows, Jobless Numbers Up
May 27, 2015--Gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to 1.3% in the first quarter of 2015, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said yesterday.
"The seasonally adjusted real GDP at market prices for the first quarter of 2015 increased by an annualised rate of 1.3%," said statistician-general Pali Lehohla. This was down from a 4.1% increase in the fourth quarter of 2014.
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Source: allAfrica.com
JSE indices down for seventh consecutive day
May 27, 2015--Nothing came of expectations that the JSE would bounce back, and by midday most of the major
indices were softer for the seventh consecutive day.
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Source: FIN24
Rand steady despite dollar rally
May 27, 2015--The rand has steadied in the face of a global dollar rally after
poor domestic data knocked it to two-week lows in the previous session.
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Source: FIN24
JSE indices drop on weak GDP growth
May 26, 2015--Disappointing GDP growth of only 1.3% has highlighted investors' growing concern about high valuations on the JSE which will not be supported
by economic activity.
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Source: FIN24
