JSE falls 2% on hints of US reducing stimulus, awaits MPC
The JSE was down at noon on Thursday, but had still not lost as much ground as other international markets with the Japanese Nikkei taking a 7% hammering
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Rand falls for 11th straight session
Rand spirals for 11th consecutive session on Thursday morning after the US Federal Reserve hints at scaling back its quantitative easing programme
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Hawkish Bernanke sends Asian stocks tumbling, dollar soaring
Hawkish remarks by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and weakness in China factory activity hit Asian stocks, and send dollar to three-year high
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Gold rebounds as China data pummels stock
Gold climbed off its session lows on Thursday after the release of weak China factory data jolted Asian markets, sending investors back to the precious metal fold
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Oil slips below $102 on gloomy China data, stimulus doubts
Crude falls below $102 a barrel as data casts doubt on recovery in key consumer China and on concern about an early scale-back in the US Federal Reserve stimulus
Opinion
SA must adapt to thrive in bad market conditions
Mark Barnes
Let’s lower our interest rates so that we stop feeding fickle capital market yield seekers
Markets
Silver falls as gold heads for longest slide in four years
Silver hits two-and-a-half-year low, prompted by heavy fund liquidation in Asian trade, with more than 3,000 lots of Comex futures selling in 20 minutes
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