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Welcome to Profile's FINANCIAL MARKETS DIRECTORY ONLINE, the directory of who's who in the South African financial markets. The FMDO is the companion website of Profile's FINANCIAL MARKETS DIRECTORY.
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) & Key Findings: November 2010
[updated 14 January 2010]
The headline inflation rate in November 2009 (i.e. the Consumer Price Index for all urban areas in November 2009 compared with that at November 2008) was 5.8%.
The official inflation rate (i.e. the percentage change in the CPI for all urban areas in November 2009 compared with that in November 2008) was 5.8% at November 2009. This rate was 0.1 of a percentage point lower than the corresponding annual rate of 5.9% in October 2009 (i.e. the Consumer Price Index for all urban areas in October 2009 compared with that in October 2008). 
From October 2009 to November 2009 the Consumer Price Index for all urban areas remained unchanged.
CPI Headline November 2009 = 5.8%.
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Interest Rates
[updated 14 January 2010]
Interest is the amount a borrower pays a lender for the use of the funds borrowed. There are a wide range of interest rates, including the various rates on deposits, the prime lending rate of banks, rates on mortgage bonds (home loans), the repo rate of the South African Reserve Bank, rates charged by micro-lenders and the rate on government stock, to mention but a few.
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Competition Amendment Bill
[updated 31 August 2009]
President Jacob Zuma has signed the controversial Competition Amendment Bill into law. The Bill has been prohibited twice by the Presidency based on fears that it was unconstitutional. 
Businesses have lobbied against the new Bill since it was first tabled in Parliament last year, as it places a heavy responsibility on company directors with its provisions on “complex monopolies” and criminal sanctions against directors. Under the new act, directors and managers can be held personally liable, and face prison terms and fines, for price-fixing activities.
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Transition to the 2009 Consumer Price Index (CPI) 
In February 2009, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) introduced a revamped Consumer Price Index (CPI) with the publication of the CPI for January 2009. Various changes, methodological and other, will be implemented in the construction of this CPI, and these changes are of three main types.
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Financial Markets Directory — Review 2009 
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Outlook into 2009
The financial market distress of 2008 was driven primarily by the calamitous collapse of global economic activity, which hit a wall in June of this year. Perhaps the best measure of this is global freight rates, which have fallen 96% since June 2008.
Article by
Richard Simpson – Obsidian Capital
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Deloitte Tax Grapevine
[12 February 2009]
On Wednesday, 11 February 2009, the South African Minister of Finance, Mr Trevor Manuel, delivered his 2009 Budget Speech. This Tax Grapevine summarises the tax highlights of this speech.
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Key Performance Indicators Summary
To end January 2010
South African Indices
Index Close Move (%)
All Share 26 676 -3.58%
Industrials 24 390 -3.39%
Financials 19 566 1.24%
Resources 26 308 -6.41%
Gold Mng 2 209 -8.34%
AltX 1 043 -0.67%
All Bond 938 0.43%
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