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The FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index is a South African stock market index. The index consists of the 40 largest stocks in the FTSE/JSE All-Share Index of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by market capitalization. The index was published on June 24, 2002, with a base value of 10,300.31 points.
The financial services giant's share price soared 37% in 2024. Despite this exceptional return, the stock remains attractively valued with a forward earnings multiple of around 9.6.
This is a 5% decrease from 2023, which was 4.5% lower than 2022. Two years of declines don’t erase dramatic increases that led to a record high cost of $64.06 in 2022.
The stock started 2024 with a pretty expensive multiple, only to end the year with an even pricier one (shares go for almost 42 times trailing price-to-earnings (P/E)).
The South African outbreak is thought to originate from two sisters that introduced it into the country after visiting Chinsapo in Malawi. [4] The initial cases were isolated to Gauteng . [ 5 ] As of 21 January 2024, 1499 (or 1395) [ 3 ] new suspected cholera cases were reported across all 9 provinces.
An epidemic of a new variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), called clade 1b, [2] began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. [3] [4] As of September 2024, more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate), [1] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5]
For starters, Oppenheimer pointed out that the speed of the recent rises in stock prices likely reflects much of the good news that Wall Street is expecting on growth in 2025.
2024 South African general election: The ANC party fails to win a majority of the vote for the first time in South Africa's democratic history. [121] [122] 2024 Malagasy parliamentary election: President Andry Rajoelina's party, Tanora Malagasy Vonona, loses their majority at the National Assembly, winning only 80 seats out of 163. [123]