JSE likely to cheer US-China trade talks
The rand was back under R14/$ and R16/€ on Wednesday morning after Donald Trump’s TV announcement turned out to be a damp squib
The US and China agreeing to extend their trade talks in Beijing for an extra day cheered Chinese stocks, which in turn is good news for Naspers investors. The top 40’s largest constituent, Naspers, tends to track its main asset, Tencent, which was 2.5% higher at HK$323.40 in Hong Kong ahead of the JSE’s opening on Wednesday morning. “President Donald Trump is increasingly eager to strike a deal with China soon in an effort to perk up financial markets that have slumped on concerns over the trade war, according to people familiar with internal White House deliberations,” Bloomberg reported.
Asian markets were also relieved on Wednesday morning that Trump’s 9pm New York time televised address on Tuesday night turned out to be a damp squib. A Bloomberg story titled “Trump’s prime-time bid to end border wall impasse falls flat” said: “Donald Trump summoned the nation’s attention to the Oval Office on Tuesday for a prime time pronouncement on the border wall standoff at the centre...
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