{"id":10704,"date":"2012-05-25T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/s-africa-shares-dip-bourse-halts-some-trades\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:02:09","slug":"s-africa-shares-dip-bourse-halts-some-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-shares-dip-bourse-halts-some-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa shares dip, bourse halts some trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum shares hammered<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Naspers benefits from Tencent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top-40 down 0.22 percent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, May 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African stocks ended<br \/>\na touch lower on Friday, after choppy trade driven by fears over<br \/>\na potential Greek exit from the euro zone and as the<br \/>\nJohannesburg&#8217;s bourse halted &#8220;incorrect&#8221; trades by one of its<br \/>\nbrokers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Top-40 index dropped more than 1 percent in<br \/>\nearly trade, but recouped some of those losses to end 0.22<br \/>\npercent lower at 29,074.19. The All-Share was 0.16<br \/>\npercent softer at 32,992.25.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg Stock Exchange said during the<br \/>\nsession it had been forced to halt some &#8216;incorrect&#8217; trades by a<br \/>\nbroker and would lower the session&#8217;s total value after the<br \/>\nclose.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an error on the part of the member not the JSE. It<br \/>\nwas not a system failure,&#8221; said Michelle Joubert, head of<br \/>\ninvestor relations at the bourse. &#8220;The member is investigating<br \/>\nthat and that is obviously something the JSE is looking at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Global markets, already skittish over a possible Greek exit<br \/>\nfrom the euro zone, were unnerved further by news that<br \/>\nCatalonia, Spain&#8217;s wealthiest autonomous region, was running out<br \/>\nof options for refinancing debt that comes due this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will they pull out of the euro zone, I don&#8217;t think so, not<br \/>\nany time soon,&#8221; said Sasha Naryshkine, a trader at Vestact.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Platinum shares hammered * Naspers benefits from Tencent * Top-40 down 0.22 percent JOHANNESBURG, May 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African stocks ended a touch lower on Friday, after choppy trade driven by fears over a potential Greek exit from the euro zone and as the Johannesburg&#8217;s bourse halted &#8220;incorrect&#8221; trades by one of its [&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-10704","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\/10704","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=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}