Diversified miner BHP is under pressure after reporting lower iron ore production, but Clicks jumps after reporting solid turnover growth
The JSE weakened on Wednesday morning, despite some risk-on trade after China reported a better-than-expected economic performance in the first quarter.
At the same time, the all share was down 0.16% to 58,806.7 points and the top 40 was down 0.15%. The resources index was down 2.01%, while banks had gained 1.08%. Earlier, sentiment was given a boost by news that Chinese economy grew 6.4% in the three months to end-March, only slightly faster than the 6.3% expected by the market. Analysts, however, cited much better-than-expected industrial production figures as a reason to be confident that Beijing’s stimulus measures were having an effect.
Rand hedge AB InBev fell 1.63% to R1,236.53 and British American Tobacco 1.06% to R567.99. Richemont was up 1.02% to R103.70.Clicks surged 6.75% to R188.95. It earlier reported that group turnover grew 6.2% in the six months to end-February. Total income rose 8.9%, while diluted headline earnings per share grew 13.2% to 300.1c.
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