Thursday is a busy day for JSE watchers, with banking group Investec, fishing group Oceana, computer group Datatec and construction group Stefanutti Stocks expected to release results.It is also a busy day on the economics front, with Statistics SA scheduled to release March’s debt case figures at 9am, wholesale trade sales at 10am, motor trade sales at 11.30am and building statistics at 1pm.Following its slide to R12.65 to the dollar on Tuesday, the rand recovered and was trading at R12.43/$, R14.69 to the euro and R16.84 to the pound at 7am.Naspers’s 31%-owned Hong Kong-subsidiary Tencent was up 5% to HK$416.40 ahead of the JSE’s opening. Tencent released better than expected results on Wednesday after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed, sending Naspers up 5.2% to R3,260.Investec has not issued a trading update as would be required if its earnings differed by more than 20%.In a pre-close briefing on March 16, Investec said two of its divisions — asset management, and wealth and i...
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