{"id":10353,"date":"2012-04-30T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/south-african-stocks-up-in-lean-trade\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:10","slug":"south-african-stocks-up-in-lean-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-stocks-up-in-lean-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"South African stocks up in lean trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Blue chips gain 0.39 pct<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* All-Share index up 0.43 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African stocks rose<br \/>\nslightly on Monday in the last trading session of the month,<br \/>\nbuoyed by financial and resource stocks such as diversified<br \/>\nminer African Rainbow Minerals.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bullion miners Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti<br \/>\n pulled in the opposite direction as spot prices of the<br \/>\nprecious metal slid towards $1,650 an ounce following four<br \/>\nstraight days of gains.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asia was stronger this morning and commodities followed<br \/>\nsuit,&#8221; said Bernhard Grobler, the head of stock broking at<br \/>\nInvestec.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The benchmark blue-chip Top-40 index rose 0.39 per<br \/>\ncent to 30,364.59 while the All-Share index added 0.43<br \/>\nper cent to 34,399.04.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the top of the pack were financial service providers.<br \/>\nAbsa and Standard Bank added 2.6 per cent to<br \/>\n160 rand and 1.75 per cent to 114.75 rand respectively.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>African Rainbow closed 1.7 percent stronger at 181 rand.<br \/>\nIndustrial group Barloworld, which said the sale of its<br \/>\nU.S. materials handling unit would leave it with about $60<br \/>\nmillion of net cash proceeds, gained nearly 2.5 percent to 98.00<br \/>\nrand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot gold was down to $1,659.40 an ounce at 1533 GMT,<br \/>\nfrom a high of $1,655.60 earlier.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Blue chips gain 0.39 pct * All-Share index up 0.43 pct JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African stocks rose slightly on Monday in the last trading session of the month, buoyed by financial and resource stocks such as diversified miner African Rainbow Minerals. Bullion miners Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti pulled in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}