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MOODY'S Investors Service has placed the Aa1 senior unsecured long-term rating of Toyota Motor Corporation and its supported subsidiaries – including the South African operation, Toyota Financial Services - under review for possible downgrade.
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US stocks rose at the open today as investors welcomed talk that debt-burdened Greece could get help from the European Union, while broker comments lifted shares of industrial companies, including Dow component Caterpillar Inc.
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SOUTH AFRICAN bonds were marginally firmer in late trade today on the back of a slightly stronger rand and a well-bid weekly government bond auction.
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THE rand was range bound in the afternoon session today as it looked to consolidate amid uncertainty within the global currency markets.
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OIL rose towards $73 a barrel today due to a weaker US dollar and robust buying interest as investors looked for bargains following last week’s price slide to near two-month lows.
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 SASHA Naryshkine and Paul Theron from Vestact talk about why the South African market is so volatile at the moment.
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THE JSE was firmer in midday trade today led by resources, which were buoyed by a weaker US dollar.
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 AT the end of the day you have to count cash, since that’s all you can spend.
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MOBILE services provider Vodacom filed an amendment to the interconnection agreements today with the ICASA for its consideration and review.
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 IT was unconstitutional for the NPA to summon an ex-intelligence official to testify in Jackie Selebi’s trial without first informing the state security ministry, the ministry said in papers filed in the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg today.
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TRANSPORT parastatal Transnet announced today it will sell bonds worth $2bn on the London Stock Exchange using its Global Medium-Term Note (GMTN) programme.
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US company Forest Exploration International aims to produce enough gas at its South African offshore project to add up to 1500 megawatts to SA’s strained power capacity, a company official said.
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 TIMES of change, stress and challenge are opportunities to ask questions and challenge the status quo, says Harvard University president, Prof Drew Faust.
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THE unemployment rate remained “virtually unchanged” at 24.3% for the fourth quarter of 2009, Statistics SA said today.
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