JSE reaches near 14 month high Domestic stocks rose, near a 14 month high and notching a fifth straight day of gains, with miners among the top risers on firmer commodity prices and a weaker rand. The JSE Top-40 index of gained 0.22% to 24 137 points, the highest closing level since the 3rd of [...]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Below you will find a daily finance and markets review provided by Rand Merchant Bank analysist John Cairns. This information is provided as a matter of interest to readers of this blog, should you be interested to receive further information and insight you may register through RMB directly. Thanks, Ed _________________________________________________________________________________________ Date: 26th October [...]
Its been a long week in the chair and a short week in the saddle for me, plagued with allergies and illness this week and without a bike [thanks for returning it in the HUGE tandem box Lance] I have had to stick with the morning gym routine rather than thrash it out on the [...]
SARB keeps rates unchanged The JSE managed to remain positive yesterday aided by firmer commodity prices on the back of a weaker local currency and a stronger Dow. The Top-40 index rose 0.66% to 24 084 points, while the broader All-Share index gained 0.63% to 26 672 points. The market traded in the red most [...]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Below you will find a daily finance and markets review provided by Rand Merchant Bank analysist John Cairns. This information is provided as a matter of interest to readers of this blog, should you be interested to receive further information and insight you may register through RMB directly. Thanks, Ed _________________________________________________________________________________________ Date: 23rd October [...]
So as you will know we are currently hard at work with a web update, its been several months in the pipeline now and has resulted in a mass of papers, sketches and drafts which have littered my desk at the office for weeks. After recently hosting the Sploosh team for two days and crunching [...]
JSE Continues its third day of gains Positive earnings results from Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo boosted global equities yesterday, with the local bourse buoyed mainly by financial stocks following the earnings news. Commodity prices faltered in early trade, dragging down mining stocks which failed to follow the metal price recovery seen in the afternoon. [...]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Below you will find a daily finance and markets review provided by Rand Merchant Bank analysist John Cairns. This information is provided as a matter of interest to readers of this blog, should you be interested to receive further information and insight you may register through RMB directly. Thanks, Ed _________________________________________________________________________________________ Date: 22nd October [...]
The JSE ends flat on profit taking. The JSE closed fairly flat yesterday after turning negative in afternoon trade but last minute buying and stronger platinum stocks lifted the local bourse to end in the black. The Top-40 index closed 0.17% higher at 23 802 points with the All-share index up 0.07% at 26 044 [...]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Below you will find a daily finance and markets review provided by Rand Merchant Bank analysist John Cairns. This information is provided as a matter of interest to readers of this blog, should you be interested to receive further information and insight you may register through RMB directly. Thanks, Ed _________________________________________________________________________________________ Date: 21st October [...]