{"id":10422,"date":"2012-05-02T20:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/south-africa-stocks-book-record-close\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T20:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:30:46","slug":"south-africa-stocks-book-record-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africa-stocks-book-record-close\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa stocks book record close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top-40 index up 0.27 pct to 30,446.28<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* All-Share up 0.24 pct to 34,482.43<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> May 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s broad<br \/>\nAll-share index closed at a record high on Thursday, as<br \/>\nimproving Chinese manufacturing data boosted appetite for<br \/>\nJohannesburg-listed resource firms such as BHP Billiton<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But a fall in global platinum spot prices knocked producers<br \/>\nsuch as Anglo American Platinum, which shed nearly 2<br \/>\npercent to 494 rand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Traders said they expected further gains ahead, but that<br \/>\nmarket players will also be keeping an eye on U.S. job market<br \/>\nfigures due to be released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The markets will still get better until Friday. There is<br \/>\nanother employment report from the U.S. and the guys will look<br \/>\nat that one,&#8221; said Malcom Moller, a trader at Vunani.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The All-share index added 0.24 percent to 34,482.43, its<br \/>\nhighest finish in its 17-year history. It also touched a new<br \/>\nrecord high of 34,647.73.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The benchmark Top-40 index gained 0.27 percent to<br \/>\n30,446.28.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shares of top global miner BHP Billiton added 2 percent to<br \/>\n253.18 rand in Johannesburg while diversified miner Exxaro<br \/>\n gained 0.8 percent to 208.61 rand.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Top-40 index up 0.27 pct to 30,446.28 * All-Share up 0.24 pct to 34,482.43 JOHANNESBURG May 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s broad All-share index closed at a record high on Thursday, as improving Chinese manufacturing data boosted appetite for Johannesburg-listed resource firms such as BHP Billiton . But a fall in global platinum spot [&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-10422","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\/10422","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=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}