South African futures were slightly higher on Friday as the market tracked a firmer JSE with resources and gold shares gaining and platinums retreating. The JSE all share closed 0.41% higher at 51,629.20 points and the blue-chip top 40 added 0.45%. Resources closed 1.76% higher and the gold index 1.31%. Property rose 1.11% and financials ended the day 0.53% higher. Platinums lost 0.55% and industrials shed 0.13%. Global miners performed strongly, with Anglo American jumping 4.49% but industrials were under pressure after British American Tobacco lost more than 2%. Global sentiment was largely negative on a Brent crude price trading flat for most of the day. It picked up after the JSE’s close, adding 0.53% to $51.61 a barrel. At 5.47pm, the Dow Jones industrial average was 0.48% lower at 18,076.51 points. At the same time, the local near-dated top-40 Alsi futures index was 0.30% higher at 45,400 points, with 22,846 contracts traded from 17,558 on Thursday.
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