South Africa’s exchange, the JSE, reported on Friday that it anticipated its consolidated earnings and headline earnings per share for the year ended December 31 2006, to be “marginally higher than the previous reporting period”.
The JSE highlighted that the earnings for the period had been impacted by a number of events, notably robust world equities market performance which had resulted in an increase in consolidated revenue of between 53% and 63% for the
period.
The day after listing in early June last year the JSE closed at a share price of R24,25. It’s share price, just after the trading statement was released on Friday morning, was at R53,50 after closing at R53,85 on Thursday. – I-Net Bridge