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European oil and gas shares jumped 2%, with BP and Royal Dutch Shell leading gains in London, while the FTSEurofirst 300 Index of leading European shares hit eight-month highs

US crude stocks rose by 6.9-million barrels last week, more than expected, according to data from the American Petroleum Institute

Upbeat US corporate reports sent US markets to a record high on Tuesday, but a firmer dollar puts pressure on interest-rate sensitive stocks and miners

Jean Pierre Verster from Fairtree Capital and Drikus Combrinck from Capicraft talk to Business Day TV

Concern about Eskom weighs on the local currency, while strong US corporate earnings reports lift the dollar

Caroline Cremen from Adviceworx discusses investing with Business Day TV

The consumer confidence index, compiled by FNB and the BER at Stellenbosch University, fell sharply to two index points in the first quarter of 2019

A rising oil price and weaker rand is bad news for motorists, who have already seen prices at the pump rise 15% so far this year

Tilmann Kolb from UBS Global Asset Management talks to Business Day TV about the local currency’s near- to medium-term outlook

The consumer confidence index, compiled by FNB and the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University, will be released on Thursday and is expected to moderate

The depth and damage wrought by state capture has proven to be worse than thought, says the Bank, with power supply being the tipping point

Executive chief economist at Alexander Forbes Isaah Mhlanga joins Business Day TV to talk about the latest inflation figures

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The company's quarterly monthly active user (MAU) count rose 9 million to reach 330 million from the previous quarter.

Cell C has been awarded Level 3 B-BBEE status, which significantly increases the company’s scope for growth in the SA economy.

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Former deputy finance minister takes exception at being called a 'PIC operative'

Chrystal Gumede has been appointed Chief Risk Officer at Ithala SOC Limited, effective from 1 April 2019.

The rand has dropped to a three-week low against the greenback in early trade, its weakest level since the beginning of this month. The post Rand drops to three week low appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..

The SABC Board says its decision to dismiss its Chief Operations Officer, Chris Maroleng, is a step towards restoring stability and bringing order in the public broadcaster. The post Decision to fire SABC COO a step towards restoring organisation: Board appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of […]

The SABC says Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has made a loan guarantee request of R3.2 billion for the cash strapped public broadcaster. The post Ndabeni-Abrahams requests R3.2 billion loan guarantee for SABC appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..

Axed SABC Chief Operations Officer, Chris Maroleng, says he intends taking the termination of his contract with the public broadcaster to the courts. The post Axed SABC boss mulls legal fightback following dismissal appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news […]

Workers affiliated to trade union Amcu have returned to work after a five month strike. This comes after the trade union signed a three-year wage agreement with gold producer Sibanye Stillwater. The post Amcu workers at Sibanye return to work appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of […]

The South African Broadcasting Corporation Board has terminated the corporation's Chief Operations Officer, Chris Maroleng's contract. The post SABC parts ways with COO, Chris Maroleng appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..

The Competition Commission has floated the idea of enforcing functional and/or accounting separation on South Africa’s large mobile operators — a move that would not be dissimilar to what it required of Telkom a few years ago — to promote competition in the mobile broadband industry in South Africa and bring down prices. This is […]

A shopping trolley that is able to brake automatically when a possible collision is detected has been invented in a bid to prevent bored children causing chaos as their parents do the food shop.

SAP raised its operating profit outlook for the year, bolstered by strong growth in its cloud business, as the German software maker pushes ahead with a major restructuring.

John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer known for his brushes with the law, said he has spoken to bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and plans to reveal the person’s identity.

Linteg Technologies rolled out a large new fibre-to-the-home network to over 1 800 homes in Jackal Creek using BDCOM fibre networking equipment from MiRO distribution.

Samsung Electronics intends to invest the equivalent of about R1.7-trillion over the next decade or so to take on Intel and Qualcomm in the business of making advanced chip processors.

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As at 28 February 2019, Naspers made up just over 18% of the FTSE/JSE All Share Index. Because of its dominance, including or excluding the share will have a...

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