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Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell 463.63, or 1.7 percent, to 27,025.61 at the close in Johannesburg. The following are among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
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Africa will have a record total of six teams in next week's draw for the World Cup finals and there are high expectations for the continent.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The rand strenghtened for a second day after a government report showed South Africa’s economy returned to growth in the third quarter, ending the country’s first recession in 17 years.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Namibia’s South West African People’s Organization is set to win its fifth consecutive election landslide on Nov. 27-28 as a recession fails to damp support for the movement that liberated the country.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell the most in three weeks and bonds jumped after Dubai’s attempt to reschedule its debt rattled investors seeking higher returns in emerging markets. The dollar dropped to a 14-year low against the yen.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.
Trading on the London Stock Exchange resumes after glitches force a halt lasting more than three hours.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called an emergency meeting of its executive committee ahead of the World Cup draw in South Africa. FIFA said Monday the meeting would take place Dec. 2, two days before the draw in Cape Town. The statement by the soccer world governing body did not reveal the topics, but its likely the committee will consider the match-fixing allegations in Europe, violence at...
U.S.-South Africa Nonproliferation Consultations Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC November 24, 2009 U.S. and South African officials recently discussed a broad array of nonproliferation-related issues, including nonproliferation challenges, nuclear security and smuggling, export controls, biosafety and biosecurity, and cooperation on nuclear energy, during meetings November 9-12 in ...
South American soccer's governing body CSF has backed a bid by Argentina and Uruguay to jointly stage the 2030 World Cup finals to commemorate the centenary of the first tournament that was also held in Uruguay.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s economy returned to growth in the third quarter, ending the first recession in 17 years, as manufacturing rebounded and the government invested in roads, railways and stadiums for next year’s soccer World Cup.
Irish rugby coach Declan Kidney has announced his team to play South Africa in a test match in Dublin this Saturday. There are a few changes but none are as surprising as the decision to start Leinster star Jonathan Sexton as outhalf instead of Munsters Ronan O'Gara .
The political party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for February 28, Haitian elections officials said on Wednesday.
Irish rugby coach Declan Kidney has announced his team to play South Africa in a test match in Dublin this Saturday. There are a few changes but none are as surprising as the decision to start Leinster star Jonathan Sexton as outhalf instead of Munsters Ronan O'Gara.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Naspers Ltd., Africa’s biggest media company, hasn’t approached Time Warner Inc.’s AOL unit about acquiring its ICQ instant-messaging service, Chief Executive Officer Koos Bekker said.
Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Hungary’s forint weakened the most in three weeks, leading emerging-Europe currencies lower, as Dubai’s debt-delay proposal and a slide in global equities heightened aversion to the riskiest assets.
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