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    Naspers, gold push JSE shares to best quarter since 2001

    By Agency Staff30 June 2020
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    South African shares are about to round off their strongest quarter in almost two decades, and the influence of the coronavirus pandemic is clear to see in the shares most responsible for driving the market higher.

    The FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index has climbed 22% since the start of April, its best performance over any quarter since 2001. Emerging market stocks, heading for their biggest gains since 2010, are up 17%. South Africa’s benchmark ranks eighth over the period among 93 major global indexes tracked by Bloomberg as of Monday’s close. It’s within 5.2% of erasing 2020’s losses.

    AngloGold Ashanti and Gold Fields are among the leading index-point contributors to the gains, as the uncertain times push traders toward the haven of bullion. Tech investor Naspers has prospered as the Covid-19 lockdown strengthened the hand of partly owned Chinese online giant Tencent Holdings, spurring it to record highs in Hong Kong. Mining behemoth Anglo American has benefited as central bankers around the world release massive stimulus to revive battered economies.

    Quite a few shares were at depressed levels, so there were a lot of opportunities there

    “If the global economy continues to recover, combined with the money printing that is happening and with central banks cutting interest rates in most markets, there is a lot of stimulus that should support higher valuations,” said Peter Takaendesa, head of equities at Mergence Investment Managers in Cape Town.

    Sasol has outpaced all other gainers over the quarter, jumping almost fourfold as some investors bet that asset sales, cost-cutting measures and recovering oil prices will reduce the need for a painful rights offering by the fuels and chemicals producer. It’s also been among stocks to benefit from buying by first-time mom-and-pop traders who, with an unprecedented amount of time on their hands during the national lockdown, were lured to the market by beaten-down valuations.

    “We have seen an increase in appetite for stock broking type of accounts, where people have discretion to purchase shares like Sasol,” according to Renzi Thirumalai, head of investments at FNB Wealth & Investments. “Quite a few shares were at depressed levels, so there were a lot of opportunities there.”  — Reported by Adelaide Changole, (c) 2020 Bloomberg LP



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