{"id":6786,"date":"2012-01-06T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africa-stocks-up-as-mtn-gold-miners-recover\/"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:05","slug":"s-africa-stocks-up-as-mtn-gold-miners-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-stocks-up-as-mtn-gold-miners-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa stocks up as MTN, gold miners recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top-40 gains 0.52 percent<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* MTN, gold miners recover from heavy selling<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South African shares<br \/>\nticked higher on Friday as battered down stocks such as telecom<br \/>\nMTN Group and safe-haven gold miners recovered ground.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg&#8217;s bourse also received a boost from the<br \/>\npositive sentiment generated by better-than-expected U.S. job<br \/>\ndata that underpinned hopes that the world&#8217;s biggest economy is<br \/>\nfirmly on the recovery path.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the shares were oversold yesterday and we saw them<br \/>\nrallying earlier this morning,&#8221; said Velele Nkosi, a dealer with<br \/>\nBJM Securities.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are still lingering concerns over European debt that<br \/>\nis why there was a bit of dampener yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Top-40 index recouped 0.52 percent to<br \/>\n29,209.60, after a 1 percent drop in the previous session that<br \/>\nwas its first decline of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In its first week of trading for the year, the index rose<br \/>\n2.6 percent after booking a 0.6 percent decline in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The broader All-Share index rose 0.46 percent to<br \/>\n32,749.57.<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 gains 0.52 percent * MTN, gold miners recover from heavy selling JOHANNESBURG Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South African shares ticked higher on Friday as battered down stocks such as telecom MTN Group and safe-haven gold miners recovered ground. Johannesburg&#8217;s bourse also received a boost from the positive sentiment generated by better-than-expected U.S. job [&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-6786","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\/6786","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=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}