Market Standard 17 August 2020
JSEDirect with Simon Brown
English - August 17, 2020 09:50 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsInvesting Business News Business News invest investing trading jse south africa stock market online standard Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Offshore
US Retail sales disappoint - rise 1.2% in July vs 7.5% gain in June
But new unemployment claims finally drops below 1million, the first time in 21 weeks
UK GDP horror
Chinese retail sales dropped 1.1% YoY, for the 7th seventh month
US stimulus (trump EOs)
Tesla 5:1 split via a special dividend
Airbnb is filing for IPO this month with plans to go public by the end of the year.
Local
Sasol results (before open on Monday)
Level 2 here we come?
Capital Counties results
City Lodge new shares start trading, they need about 35% occupancy to break even.
Richemont ‘loyalty dividend’ a three-year warrant.