{"id":15209,"date":"2012-10-03T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africas-september-business-confidence-retreats\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:28:11","slug":"s-africas-september-business-confidence-retreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-september-business-confidence-retreats\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s September business confidence retreats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Business confidence in South<br \/>\nAfrica fell again in September after a rebound the previous<br \/>\nmonth, weighed down by a wave of mostly illegal strikes that<br \/>\nhave hit the mining sector in particular.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Business Confidence Index (BCI) shed 3.3 points to 91.7<br \/>\nin September, not far off a 12-month low of 90.9 reached in<br \/>\nJuly, data from the South African Chamber of Commerce and<br \/>\nIndustry (SACCI) showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent developments in the domestic labour market weighed<br \/>\nheavily on the BCI,&#8221; SACCI said in a statement, alluding to<br \/>\nstrikes by as many as 75,000 miners that have hit platinum and<br \/>\ngold mining firms and further threatened the country&#8217;s shaky<br \/>\ngrowth prospects.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The business grouping was also concerned about Moody&#8217;s<br \/>\ndowngrade of South African debt last week and its drop by two<br \/>\npositions in the 2012\/2013 World Economic Forum competitiveness<br \/>\nrankings.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa, editing by Agnieszka Flak)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Business confidence in South Africa fell again in September after a rebound the previous month, weighed down by a wave of mostly illegal strikes that have hit the mining sector in particular. The Business Confidence Index (BCI) shed 3.3 points to 91.7 in September, not far off a 12-month low [&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-15209","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\/15209","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=15209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}