JSE flat as Naspers offsets retailer’s gains
General retailers cheer an easing oil price, but pressure on market heavyweights Naspers and Glencore threatens JSE gains
The JSE was flat on Tuesday morning, despite a 3% jump in the JSE's retail index. At 10am, Truworths was up 5.32% to R77, TFG 4.1% to R176.86 and Woolworths 3.49% R46.60. Interest-rate sensitive shares have recently found support from an easing oil price and firmer rand, which decreases the prospect of the Reserve Bank's raising interest rates to protect the value of the currency. Shoprite was up 3.19% to R167, despite earlier reporting that basic earnings per share fell 46.6% to 355.6c in the six months to end-December when excluding an adjustment for hyperinflation it faced in Angola. This was roughly in the middle of the company's guidance in January. The all share was up 0.1% to 55,934.4 points and the top 40 had risen 0.13%. Platinums were up 1.12%, general retailers 3.1% and food and drug retailers 0.79%. Industrials were off 0.11%. Gold was down 0.18% to $1,324.83/oz while platinum was up 0.22% to $855.09. Brent crude was flat at $64.68 a barrel, having lost 3.45% so far this...
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