{"id":8655,"date":"2012-03-07T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-feb-business-confidence-index-up-at-99-5\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:16","slug":"s-africa-feb-business-confidence-index-up-at-99-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-feb-business-confidence-index-up-at-99-5\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa Feb business confidence index up at 99.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 7<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Business confidence<br \/>\nin the South African economy improved to 99.5 index points in<br \/>\nFebruary, the highest level on the business confidence index<br \/>\nsince June 2011, the South African Chamber of Commerce and<br \/>\nIndustry said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The February increase, from 97.1 in January, could mark the<br \/>\nstart of improved economic prospects &#8220;if the policy and labour<br \/>\nenvironments become more conducive to such improvements,&#8221; the<br \/>\nbusiness grouping said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While SACCI gave a nod to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan&#8217;s<br \/>\ninfrastructure expenditure plans outlined in the budget, it<br \/>\nwarned continued strikes at platinum mines and higher oil prices<br \/>\nwere weighing on confidence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Xola Potelwa)<\/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, March 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Business confidence in the South African economy improved to 99.5 index points in February, the highest level on the business confidence index since June 2011, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday. The February increase, from 97.1 in January, could mark the start of improved economic [&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-8655","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\/8655","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=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}