South Africa Equity

South Africa Tests Investor Appetite in Biggest Bond Auction Yet

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s widening budget deficit is going to cost it. Just how much, the Treasury will find out when it holds its biggest auction yet of local-currency debt on Tuesday. Benchmark 10-year yields have climbed more than 60 basis points since Oct. 25, when Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said the government will need to raise an additional 122 billion rand ($8.4 billion) of debt over the next three years to plug…

Telkom Says Government Has Identified Potential Buyers of Stake

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DAR ES SALAAM (Capital Markets in Africa) – Telkom SA SOC Ltd. executives have met with South African government officials to discuss plans to sell a 39 percent state-owned stake and were told that potential buyers have been identified. “They have communicated that they have identified a buyer or buyers to sell to,” Telkom Chief Executive Officer Sipho Maseko said in an interview in Pretoria on Friday. “The sale will most likely be done through a private placement.”…

Rand Merchant Bank lists US Dollar Custodial Certificates on JSE

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), has listed an innovative new product on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), which will enable companies and individuals to hold unlimited quantities of cash in US dollars. US Dollar Custodial Certificates (DCCs), listed on the Exchange Traded Funds sector of the JSE on 24th January, are easily tradable, dollar-denominated investment instruments which have no exchange control implications. Investors earn the return of a US Treasury…

South Africa’s rand gains as investors bet ECB will delay tapering

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s rand firmed on Wednesday as investors ignored local factors and bet on the European Central Bank delaying plans to taper its asset buying programme. Gold mining stocks led the bourse weaker, still reeling from Tuesday’s drop in bullion prices. By 1519 GMT the rand had firmed 0.87 percent to 13.7100 per dollar, shrugging off September’s weak business confidence print. “The rand initially recovered during Wednesday’s European session as…

Investment | Ascendis to Buy Remedica, Scitec for as Much as $566 Million

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Johannesburg, South Africa, Capital Markets in Africa: Ascendis Health Limited entered agreements to buy separate pharmaceutical and sports-nutrition companies for a total of as much as 505 million euros ($566 million), and will pay for the purchases through debt facilities and a potential share sale. The company will pay 260 million euros to 335 million euros for Cyprus-based pharmaceutical company Remedica Holdings Limited and about 170 million euros for Scitec International Sarl, Johannesburg-based Ascendis said in…

South Africa Equity Markets | 11 Nov 2015: JSE All-Share index ends higher despite fall in gold and resource indices

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Johannesburg, South Africa Capital Markets in Africa —Positive mood returned to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) at the end of today’s equity trading session. The JSE All Share (the broadest measure of the equity market performance) surged by 0.50 percent or 28.60 points to trade at 52,594.10 points and the JSE Top 40 index ended 0.14 percent or 63.89 points higher to close at 47,265.83 points. From the sector indices perspective, financial sector index fell by 0.24…

South Africa Equity Markets | 10 Nov 2015: JSE equity trading floor paints in red, resource index 3.23% down …

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Johannesburg, South Africa Capital Markets in Africa —On Tuesday, Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) equity trading ended in the negative territory. The JSE All Share (the broadest measure of the equity market performance) declined by 1.51 percent or 805.73 points to trade at 52,565.50 points and the JSE Top 40 index ended 1.59 percent or 763.02 points lower to close at 47,201.94 points. The financial sector index sagged 0.84 percent or 688.07 points to close at 44,018.84 points. Industrial sector…

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