{"id":15586,"date":"2012-10-15T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/safrica-bonds-may-lose-steam-after-trumping-stocks-to-date-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:01:36","slug":"safrica-bonds-may-lose-steam-after-trumping-stocks-to-date-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/safrica-bonds-may-lose-steam-after-trumping-stocks-to-date-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"SAfrica bonds may lose steam after trumping stocks to date in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Foreign bond flows double last year<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Strikes hit mining shares<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bonds yielding more than equities<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Foreigners keen on retail stocks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Stella Mapenzauswa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African government<br \/>\nbonds could soon lose some steam after a strong run propelled by<br \/>\nportfolio flows from foreign accounts undeterred by strikes that<br \/>\nhave raised questions about the wisdom of investing in the<br \/>\ncountry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investors are increasingly uneasy over often violent<br \/>\nprotests that have killed more than 50 people, including 34<br \/>\nstriking miners shot dead by police in August.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;sugar rush&#8217; from inclusion in a major global bond index<br \/>\nearlier this month, though now ebbing, has helped push portfolio<br \/>\nflows to a net 82 billion rand ($9.5 billion) into bonds in the<br \/>\nyear to date, nearly double the 42 billion rand of net purchases<br \/>\nmade during the whole of 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By contrast, foreigners have spurned equities, continuing a<br \/>\ntrend from 2011 as risks from a weak domestic and global<br \/>\neconomic outlook offset the lure of high returns on the bourse.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Foreign bond flows double last year * Strikes hit mining shares * Bonds yielding more than equities * Foreigners keen on retail stocks By Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG, Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African government bonds could soon lose some steam after a strong run propelled by portfolio flows from foreign accounts undeterred by strikes [&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-15586","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\/15586","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=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}