JSE has best month in over a year as gold miners shine
Gold stocks shot up almost a quarter in June as the gold price and global equity markets cheered a dovish tilt by the US Federal Reserve
01 July 2019 - 05:04
The JSE had its best monthly performance in more than a year in June, contributing to a 10.37% rise in the bourse in the first half of the year as global equities cheered dovish signals from the US Federal Reserve.
The all share index is now about 6% away from its record high of 61,776.7 points reached in early 2018, with gains on the local bourse coming despite troubling domestic news, including SA’s 3.2% contraction in GDP in the first quarter...
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