JSE under strain on Monday morning amid recession concerns
Rising inflation is stoking more aggressive central bank policy, with Chinese inflation data providing new reasons to worry
11 April 2022 - 11:01
The JSE joined its global peers, opening lower on Monday morning with hotter-than-expected inflation out of China providing renewed reasons for investor caution.
Both China's producer and consumer inflation numbers for March came in higher than expected, with producer inflation above 8% year on year, stoking further concerns of an economic slowdown in a country grappling with its worst Covid-19 wave since early 2020...
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