{"id":8630,"date":"2012-03-07T02:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/miners-lead-south-african-stocks-lower\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T02:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:56:58","slug":"miners-lead-south-african-stocks-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/miners-lead-south-african-stocks-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners lead South African stocks lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Blue chips in biggest fall in over 3 months<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin slides over 5 percent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Miners such as<br \/>\nLonmin were felled by a slide in metal prices and led<br \/>\nSouth African shares lower on Tuesday, with blue chips posting<br \/>\ntheir biggest one-day loss in over 3 months.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The benchmark blue-chip Top-40 index shed 2.07<br \/>\npercent to 29,612.31, its biggest fall since late November,<br \/>\nwhile the broader All-Share index gave up 1.89 percent<br \/>\nto 33,387.04.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Global markets were down but Johannesburg was harder hit<br \/>\nthan most, as big resource shares were bled by dimming prospects<br \/>\nfor the global economy and demand for the key commodities that<br \/>\ndrive it.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>European shares hit a one-week low and the euro fell as<br \/>\nriskier assets also bore the brunt of fears that Greece may not<br \/>\nbe able to complete a major debt restructuring deal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold prices fell 2 percent and platinum shed<br \/>\nalmost 3 percent, nearing $1,600 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin, the world&#8217;s third-largest platinum producer which<br \/>\nwas the worst performer among Johannesburg blue chips last year,<br \/>\nplunged almost 5.50 percent.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Blue chips in biggest fall in over 3 months * Lonmin slides over 5 percent By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, March 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Miners such as Lonmin were felled by a slide in metal prices and led South African shares lower on Tuesday, with blue chips posting their biggest one-day loss in over 3 [&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-8630","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\/8630","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=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}