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The finance minister was seen as central to efforts to restore confidence in South Africa. As a result of the tensions, S&P Global cut South Africa's credit rating to junk status on Monday 3 April 2017. [58] Fitch Ratings followed suit on Friday 7 April 2017 and cut the country's credit status to the sub-investment grade of BBB−. [59]
Leading Credit Index - a composite index developed by the Conference Board consisting of six financial indicators such as yield spreads, loan survey information and investor sentiment [5] Interest rate spread (10-year Treasury vs. Federal Funds target) — The interest rate spread is often referred to as the yield curve and implies the expected ...
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.
Between 2004 and 2020, [2] the Global Competitiveness Report ranked countries based on the Global Competitiveness Index, [1] developed by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Elsa V. Artadi. [3] Before that, the macroeconomic ranks were based on Jeffrey Sachs 's Growth Development Index and the microeconomic ranks were based on Michael Porter 's Business ...
By October 19, 1987, the index had risen by 960.9% to a closing level of 2,804 points. After Black Monday the JSE Actuaries fell again. On December 10, 2001, the index closed above the 10,000-point mark for the first time at 10,030.17 points. On June 24, 2002, the FTSE Group took over the calculation of the index. To reflect this change, the ...
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said its Small Business Optimism Index rose eight-tenths of a point to 90.5 last month, the second consecutive month it has risen after ...
The ease of doing business index was an index created jointly by Simeon Djankov, Michael Klein, and Caralee McLiesh, three leading economists at the World Bank Group, following the release of World Development Report 2002. [1] [2] [3] The academic research for the report was done jointly with professors Edward Glaeser, Oliver Hart, and Andrei ...
The Living Standards Measure or LSM is a marketing and research tool ( same as social economic class: SEC but more refined ) used in South Africa to classify standard of living and disposable income. It segments the population into ten deciles based on their relative means, with LSM 1 being the decile with the least means and 10 being the ...