Daily Equity Report

2009/12/21 19:40:18
The JSE closed up 0.55% at 27495 with value traded at R 7.54 billion. Advances led declines 199 to 131 with 69 shares unchanged out of 399 active. Mining closed up 0.73% at 34062, while Industrials were up 0.15% at 25678 and financials ended the day up 0.65% at 19243.

The best performing sectors of the day were FTSE/JSE SHARIAH ALL up 41.3% at 2896, FTSE/JSE RAFI 40 up 22.8% at 5729 and FTSE/JSE AFRICA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS TRUST INDEX up 2.6% at 623, while the worst were FTSE/JSE All Africa ex SA 30 with S A Rand values down 40.9% at 57, FTSE/JSE All Africa ex SA 30 with US$ values down 30.7% at 59 and FTSE/JSE All Africa 40 Index with S A Rand values down 19.3% at 70.

There were 9 new 12 month highs today, including Bowcalf which closed up 10% at 660, Winhold up 5.7% at 148 and Northam up 4.4% at 4700 while there were 1 new lows of which Simmers topped the list, down 7.5% at 148.

Of the major stocks Mtn was off 1.53% at 11300, Anglo ended up 1.43% at 32650, Billiton was up 1.08% at 23603, Stanbank was off 0.49% at 10150, Implats ended down 0.64% at 19524.

Biggest gainers of the day where Bowcalf up 10% at 660 , Drdgold up 9.57% at 515 , some of the losing shares included Lonafric down 10.71% at 125 and Ips down 8.11% at 170

The Dow was up 1.2% at 10448.15 and the S&P 500 up 1.3% at 1116.86 a few moments ago.

Gold was off 1.3% at $ 1095.57/oz

The rand was last trading at R 7.74 to the dollar, R 12.41 to the pound and R 11.08 to the Euro.