Thursday is bumper results day, with Standard Bank, MTN, Sanlam, Aspen and Exxaro scheduled to release financial statements.Chinese stock exchanges rallied following the release of February’s export data. "Exports from China soared 44.5% year on year to $171.6bn in February, far above estimates of a 13.6% growth and after a 11.1% increase in a month earlier. It was the strongest rise in outbound shipments in three years, due to robust demand at home and abroad," Trading Economics reported.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 1.44% while mainland China’s Shenzhen component index rose 0.46% and Shanghai composite index rose 0.25%.The rally lifted Naspers’s associate Tencent 1.8% to H$442, boding well for the JSE’s all share index rebounding from Wednesday’s 0.47% fall.Standard Bank completes the quartet of big-four bank results on Thursday.The JSE’s second-largest bank, with a market capitalisation of R364bn, has not issued a trading update as would be required if its earnings for the yea...
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