South Africa’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a third meeting to help spur the economy’s recovery while warding off price pressures from rising food and oil costs.
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South African inflation may reach the upper end of the central bank’s 3 percent to 6 percent target range “sooner than expected” as oil and food prices increase, Governor Gill Marcus said.
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CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals which awards the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, said the answer sheets of candidates who sat exams in Ghana last month were lost.
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Former Hong Kong banker Jose Cortes turned a passion for Africa’s wildlife into a business organizing African safaris for Asian clients
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South African bonds lured more foreign inflows in 2010 than shares for the first time after the fall of apartheid in 1994 as yields more than double those of 10-year U.S. Treasuries boosted the appeal of the debt.
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South African bonds lured more foreign inflows in 2010 than shares for the first time after the fall of apartheid in 1994 as yields more than double those of 10-year U.S. Treasuries boosted the appeal of the debt.
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Security guards and federal police have allegedly shot and killed people scavenging the waste rock at Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine in Tanzania
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Villagers in Nigeria raced to pulverize gold-bearing rocks with grain grinders, then washed the dust at communal wells, setting off the world’s worst modern lead-poisoning crisis
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