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South Africa Equity Market Monthly Report - October 2019 - 03 Oct 2019
03 October 2019
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of exports increased by 1.6% month-on-month in August 2019.
03 October 2019
Latest data up to August 2019 show that the conditions were tighter during August and July compared with the March-June period.
03 October 2019
Four of the eight major JSE sectors recorded positive month-on-month returns.
02 October 2019
A mid slowing global growth and rising trade tensions, several central banks, including the US Federal Reserve, have been easing monetary policy.
20 September 2019
The MPC unanimously decided to reduce the repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 6.5% per annum with effect from 19 July 2019.
18 September 2019
Household net saving has come under severe pressure after 2005 with dissaving (negative net saving) having been recorded for each year during 2006 to 2016.
17 September 2019
Despite the persistence of balance of payments pressures, slow domestic growth and inflation bottoming, the slight upward bias in long-term interest rates during the first half of 2019, has made way way for an easing in bond yields.
16 September 2019
After registering a surplus between 1995 and 2008, Government's primary balance—the surplus or deficit before interest rate expenses and one of the most important indicators of fiscal sustainability—turned again into a deficit in 2009 and amounted to -3.3% of GDP in early 2010.
11 September 2019
The Consumer Vulnerability Index (CVI) for South Africa edged up to 52.1 in the first quarter of 2019 from 50 in the previous quarter.
11 September 2019
Bigger counter-cyclical and infrastructure spending, SOE support and elaborate education, welfare and health systems envisaged by government over the next few years, will cause upward pressure on the state’s borrowing requirement as a ratio of GDP.