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“We are holding up pretty well‚ with gold and platinum counters driving the market and the top 40 index driven by gold. Investors are risk-averse and a flight to safe-haven gold is seen‚ while the eurozone crisis continues to be the theme for now‚” said Francois Venter‚ equities dealer at Investec Asset Management in Cape Town.
At 11:56 the All Share [JSE:J203] index was up 0.16% at 34 054.16.
Big movers at noon were Northam Platinum‚ up 31 cents or 1.27% at R24.81‚ and Harmony‚ up 132 cents or 1.74% at R77.00.
Dow Jones Newswires reported that core European stocks were in the black on Wednesday‚ supported by well-received earnings in the automotive sector‚ while peripheral equity markets outperformed following heavy declines in the previous session‚ as investors ignored downbeat assessments of the German and UK economies.
In London‚ the FTSE 100 index barely reacted to significantly worse than expected second-quarter gross domestic product figures. At 11:41 local time‚ the index was up 0.18% at 5‚509.34 points.
In the East the Hang Seng index closed down 0.14% at 18 877.33 points and the Nikkei 225 index closed down 1.44% at 8 365.90 points.
