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Bernanke kept the door open for tapering as you've indicated Moonraker, but said it is data-dependent and nothing is 'cast in stone'.  Still, most analysts think the Fed will begin to taper in September - December this year, nothing else for us to do but to eco data watch, wait and see.

US ended green, Asia mixed this morning with Nikkei up 1.33%, US futures dipped into red, SA T40 -88 atm.

14:30 Initial jobless US

Local news:  AIA Group Ltd. ("AIA") and Discovery Ltd. ("Discovery") announced a strategic joint venture to introduce Discovery's successful wellness-based life insurance model to the Asia-Pacific region.

Edit:  SA T40 changed to -150. Why so negative?

Detroit - Detroit's financial decline that led on Thursday to the biggest US municipal bankruptcy filing in the country's history can be traced back to the waning days of long-time Mayor Coleman Young's administration (1974-1993), when the city was already deep in debt and struggling with a budget deficit.

Gold up on weaker $, nice golden smile you have there jaDEB , made me think of this: “Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.”  ― Warren Buffett

Anyways, Asia all green, IGM T40 +189, US futures up, US existing home sales @ 16:00.

Gold 1331 ...  , who's Warren? 

Who indeed.

Futures green, as is Asia and again not much happening on eco reporting today.

Local:  MTN CFO resigns under investigation, Barclays to relinquish ownership of its African operations to Absa in exchange of a 62.3% shareholding.

Group Five
expects HEPS for the year ended 30 June 2013 to increase
145
-
165% y/y. The company also expects fully diluted EPS and EPS to turn
around from a loss of 288cps in 2012 to between 265
cp and
290cp. Fully
diluted HEPS from continuing operations would range be
tween 310
cps and
345cps a share, 75
-
95% higher than the 177cps recorded last year

Hey,
EPS, as in eastern platinum? What does this mean for EPS??? Sorry, kind of new to shares.

EPS: Earnings Per Share

Ahh. Thanks. Makes much more sense now

Quote from: Moneypenny on July 23, 2013, 09:04:58 am

Local:  MTN CFO resigns under investigation, Barclays to relinquish ownership of its African operations to Absa in exchange of a 62.3% shareholding.

At the risk of quoting myself

ASA up today 6.04%, MTN down -2.78%

ASA to change its name to Barclays Africa or something as of next month. This was made known last month and the price shot up substantially and then retreated back to where it was.

As Mr Bond's secretary says, Gold up. 1340... I am thinking.....