{"id":10463,"date":"2012-05-03T20:32:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/s-africa-shares-dip-await-u-s-job-data\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T20:32:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:32:25","slug":"s-africa-shares-dip-await-u-s-job-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-shares-dip-await-u-s-job-data\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa shares dip, await U.S. job data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top-40 down 0.35 pct to 30,338.56<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* All-Share dips 0.3 pct to 34,375.51<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Enos Phosa and Tebogo Mahlaela<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, May 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South African share prices<br \/>\neased from a record high in the previous session led by gold<br \/>\nmining stocks such as Harmony and investors will be<br \/>\nwatching employment statistics out of the United States for<br \/>\ndirection.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s largest producer, AngloGold Ashanti and<br \/>\nthird-placed Gold Fields shed 2 percent each to 258.06<br \/>\nand 97.62 rand respectively, hit by a decline in the price of<br \/>\ngold.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Banking shares moved in the opposite direction after data<br \/>\nshowing that jobless claims in the world&#8217;s biggest economy fell<br \/>\nlast week boosted expectations that the U.S. non-farm payroll<br \/>\nreport due out on Friday would beat expectations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Financials have fared well and looking at the poor<br \/>\nperformance of gold, people are cutting off resources and going<br \/>\nmore into financials,&#8221; said Nilan Morar, Global Trader&#8217;s head of<br \/>\ntrading.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bit of nervousness creeping into the market in the<br \/>\nafternoon certainly in anticipation in case that number is poor<br \/>\ntomorrow,&#8221; he said, referring to the U.S. job announcement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Top-40 index fell 0.35 percent to 30,338.56 and<br \/>\nthe All-Share scaled back from its record high hit in the<br \/>\nprevious session, falling 0.31 percent to 34,375.51. It touched<br \/>\na life high of 34,647.73 on Wednesday.<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 down 0.35 pct to 30,338.56 * All-Share dips 0.3 pct to 34,375.51 By Enos Phosa and Tebogo Mahlaela JOHANNESBURG, May 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South African share prices eased from a record high in the previous session led by gold mining stocks such as Harmony and investors will be watching employment statistics out of [&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-10463","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\/10463","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=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}