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TABLE-Foreigners buy bonds, sell equities last week

27 August 2012 By admin

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Offshore investors bought 2.1 billion rand
($250 million) worth of local debt last week but sold 241 million rand in
equities, data from the JSE showed on Monday.
    Below are tables outlining purchases, sales and net purchases for the week,
for the same period in 2011, for the year-to-date and the corresponding
year-to-date in 2011. 
    All figures are in billions of rand. 
    
    Bonds                
              Week ended  Week ended  Year to date   Year to date   
             24/08/2012   26/08/2011          2012           2011   
 Purchases         18.4         23.3         682.8          628.1   
 Sales             16.3         24.6         619.6          575.1   
 Net Purchases      2.1         -1.2          63.1           53.0   
      
    Equities           
            Week ended   Week ended  Year to date   Year to date   
            24/08/2012   26/08/2011          2012           2011   
 Purchases         8.7          7.1         332.0          307.3   
 Sales             8.9          8.7         333.0          316.8  
 Net Purchases    -0.241       -1.6          -1.0           -9.5
 ($1 = 8.4060 South African rand)

 (Reporting by Tshepo Tshabalala)

© Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved





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