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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

South Africa overtaken by China as world’s top gold producer

Since 1905, South Africa has been the world’s top producer of gold. That has now changed, due to an increase in production out of China (helped, it has been pointed out, by Canadian companies). And by a decrease in South African production – down 8.1% over the last year alone – due to the reality […]

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

South African retail sales continue to slump in November

By Kevin Lings
Stats SA have released the retail sales data for November 2007. According to this latest survey, retail sales rose by a very modest 0.2%y/y in real terms in November. This compares with a 1.9%y/y in October and 1.7%y/y in September. The market was expecting a decline of 0.4%y/y, but this was a very […]

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