Monday, July 30, 2007

S.African stock market boosted by miners, banks

(Reuters) - South Africa's blue chip top-40 index rose over 1.7 percent on Monday, boosted by resource and banking stocks in late afternoon trade.

At 1452 GMT, the blue-chip index was 1.6 percent stronger, with heavyweight miners Anglo American up 2.07 percent to 402.40 rand and BHP Billiton 3.75 percent higher at 203.60 rand.


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