{"id":8012,"date":"2012-02-16T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/refile-s-africa-stocks-stumble-as-europe-pauses\/"},"modified":"2012-02-16T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T00:06:00","slug":"refile-s-africa-stocks-stumble-as-europe-pauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refile-s-africa-stocks-stumble-as-europe-pauses\/","title":{"rendered":"REFILE-S.Africa stocks stumble as Europe pauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Refiles to remove extraneous text in fourth paragraph)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top-40 down 0.15 pct to 30,395.73<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* All-Share edges 0.07 pct lower<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African stocks<br \/>\nedged lower on Wednesday, as skepticism over a quick Greek<br \/>\nrescue package weighed on the market late in the session and<br \/>\ndragged bullion producers such as Gold Fields lower.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg shares were in positive territory for most of<br \/>\nthe day after China said it would keep investing in euro zone<br \/>\ndebt, but sentiment unraveled on news the region&#8217;s finance<br \/>\nministers were not satisfied with Greece&#8217;s commitment to<br \/>\nausterity measures.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all depends on the soap opera of Greece at the moment,&#8221;<br \/>\nsaid Nick Kunze, head of dealing at BJM Private Clients.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m afraid the toing and froing with what comes out of<br \/>\nGreece and the euro zone will continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The benchmark Top-40 rolled back 0.15 percent to<br \/>\n30,395.73, while the broader All-Share shed 0.07<br \/>\npercent to 34,089.87.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold miners, which have recently not behaved<br \/>\ntypically as a safe haven in roiling markets, were down 1.75<br \/>\npercent.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Refiles to remove extraneous text in fourth paragraph) * Top-40 down 0.15 pct to 30,395.73 * All-Share edges 0.07 pct lower JOHANNESBURG, Feb 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African stocks edged lower on Wednesday, as skepticism over a quick Greek rescue package weighed on the market late in the session and dragged bullion producers such as [&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-8012","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\/8012","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=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}