Investors welcome news that the US Senate passed the infrastructure bill, though concern over the Delta strain of Covid-19 weighs on sentiment
The JSE was little changed on Wednesday, with its global peers mixed as progress in the US infrastructure bill contended with the concern over the Delta strain of Covid-19.
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