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African Economic Outlook 2016 launched in Nigeria
August 4, 2016--The 2016 African Economic Outlook (AEO) was launched by the Nigeria Country Office of the African Development Bank at an outreach event held at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
The theme of the 2016 AEO is Sustainable Cities and Structural Transformation. The report looks closely at Africa's distinctive pathways towards urbanization, and how this is increasingly shifting economic resources to more productive activities.
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Source: African Development Bank Group
JSE gets mild fillip from financial shares
August 4, 2016--Financial stocks on the JSE have followed their European counterparts higher, which also gave the rest of the market a marginal lift.
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Source: FIN24
Rand outshines global currencies
August 4, 2016--The rand has led gains, showing the best performance among 31 global currencies, boosted by vote counting and the Bank of England slashing its main lending rate.
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Source: FIN24
JSE slips on global economy concerns
August 2, 2016--The JSE has tracked European markets lower, with almost all major indices-apart from gold-substantially down on worries about the global economy.
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Source: FIN24
Rand, stocks slip ahead of elections
August 2, 2016--The rand has lost some ground against the dollar with traders taking a cautious stance ahead of local government elections.
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Source: FIN24
It's an importers' market as rand finds strength
August 1, 2016--While the rand opened strongly at under R14 to the dollar, it will likely straddle R13.80 to R14.40 as the week wears on, according to currency analysts.
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Source: FIN24
Rand up as SA local-currency debt rating downgraded by Fitch
July 26, 2016--Fitch Ratings has downgraded South Africa's local-currency debt rating one level to bring it into line with the nation's foreign-currency rating.
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Source: FIN24
Namibia: NSX Partners UN Stock Exchange
South Africa-No change in rates amid uncertainty
Bridging South Africa's Economic Divide
But now it is a generation since the end of apartheid, and regrettably there remains a large and growing gap between South Africa's accomplishments and its concrete economic needs. view more
July 22, 2016--THE Namibia Stock Exchange, together with the stock exchanges of Botswana and Tanzania, announced their partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges' (SSE) initiative on Wednesday at the SSE Executive Dialogue on Green Finance in Nairobi, Kenya.
Source: AllAfrica.com
July 21, 2016--In line with the consensus among economists, Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the interest rate will remain unchanged.
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Source: FIN24
July 19, 2016--Thank you very much for your kind introduction and the warm welcome from the Witwatersrand community. It is a pleasure to be back in South Africa.
Let me begin with a tribute to South Africa's achievements. This country offers an extraordinary legacy of freedom and reason that is a model to the world-as was so clear yesterday as Nelson Mandela's birthday was commemorated both here and abroad.
Source: IMF
