From Business Insider South Africa:
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Today's headlines:
1. South Africa's headline inflation rate slowed to 4.1% year-on-year in March 2020, from 4.6% in February 2020. Read more.
2. The oil price recovered somewhat overnight, with Brent crude oil up 6% to $22 per barrel.
3. In results released yesterday, Standard Bank warned of "significantly higher" charges as clients could default on loans. Read more.
4. This morning, PSG said it is considering “a corporate action/transaction” that could impact its share price. One analyst speculated that it could be planning to unbundle Capitec, or delist Zeder.
5. Zimbabwe has announced a price freeze on goods and services and ordered businesses to instead revert to prices obtained on 25 March 2020, just before the country went into a nationwide lockdown. Read more.
Graph of the day
Fact of the day
A quarter of all South African jobs that were advertised online have been scrapped over the past six weeks as the coronavirus crisis took hold, according to a report compiled by Adzuna, an online job aggregator. Read more.
Tweets of the day
God grant me the serenity to accept the WhatsApp groups I cannot leave; courage to leave the ones I can; and wisdom to know the difference
— Gilli Apter (@gillog) April 22, 2020
Government's relief package is R500 billion. Or $47,35.
— Hermann Pretorius???? (@Meneer_Mann) April 21, 2020
