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• RESEARCH: Hold USD-ZAR
  -The rand remains strongly correlated with the risk-on/risk-off parameter. The dominance of this factor has increased further since the start of the year. -The next central bank meeting and the presentation of the new budget will be important.
  ForexTV.com
• Transnet to roll out ZAR 300 billion expansion plan
  South African state owned Transnet will spend ZAR 300 billion in a capital expansion program to move the transportation of minerals such as coal from roads to rail. This was announced by President Jacob Zuma during his State of the Nation address in ...
  SteelGuru
• Cape Town lass is SA’s first Playmate
  The 25-year-old from Cape Town received the title on Friday night at a gala function held at the ZAR night club in Sandton, Johannesburg, the Saturday Star reported. “It feels amazing. It still hasn't hit me though,” Fairbrother told the newspaper.
  Independent Online
• Six fall prey to target killing and violence
  Gull died on the spot and body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. Victim's relative Zar Mohammad Khan informed police that Gull hailed from Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and had some personal enmity with his tribesmen.
  Pakistan News Service
• Budget is rand positive’
  “The Treasury is subtly suggesting the ZAR could recover from current levels over the next few years and is also looking at reducing the country's foreign debt exposure,” said the group's analysts in their post Budget commentary. Despite the recent ...
  Independent Online
• Horse racing: Zar Kan prove star of a Newbury feast
  It’s likely have been eight days since any English jumping action so it’s vital that tomorrow’s stellar Newbury card gets the green light. Not just from an enjoyment factor either with Zarkandar looking a great bet in the Betfair Hurdle at 3.45pm.
  Yorkshire Evening Post
• SCBA to arrange seminar on Balochistan
  Talking to Daily Times, SCBA Secretary General Aslam Zar said the bar was concerned over the worsening law and order situation in Balochistan, adding that it had, therefore, decided to arrange a seminar to discuss the Balochistan issue. He said that all ...
  Daily Times
• Kumba announce December ended result
  1. Headline earnings increased by 19% to ZAR 17 billion 2. Revenue increased by 28% to ZAR 45.8 billion driven by 26% higher prices 3. Operating profit of ZAR 32 billion up 27% 4. Cash generated from operations rose by 27% to ZAR 34.3 billion 5.
  SteelGuru
• Palestinians: Stop building at Gilad Farm outpost
  Established in 2003, Gilad Farm is located around 1.5 kilometers from the Kedumim settlement and is named for Gilad Zar, the Shomron Regional Council security coordinator murdered by Palestinian terrorists in 2001. While Gilad Farm settlers maintain that ...
  Jerusalem Post
• Banged up in Burma
  There's not a lot of night-life in Yangon and the 369 is about as good as it gets. There Ross met Khine Zar Win, aged 29, whose occupation was later described as "sex worker" – less delicately, a prostitute. Ross took Khine Zar Win home around midnight ...
  On Line Opinion
• EM Currencies under pressure
  CZK, PLN and HUF all lose ground against EUR, while ZAR and TRY hold steady against USD. Looking ahead, South Africa's budget speech for 2012 will be in focus Wednesday, as will a possible decision from the European Commission on whether to proceed with ...
  FXStreet.com
• Whitney Houston and a Mine Sweeper In Iran
  Whitney Houston was big in the 90's. So big that even young folk in Iran were listening to her music. At the time, I was a correspondent in Iran and I had befriended a young man who worked in my mother's Central Tehran office. He was 24 years old when I ...
  Huffington Post
• Continental Coal executes US$65m coal hedged debt agreement with ABSA Capital
  As part of the debt funding with ABSA Capital, Continental has implemented a coal and foreign exchange hedging program to mitigate its exposure to a sustained fall in US$ coal prices or an appreciation of the ZAR:US$. Importantly, the coal hedging ...
  Proactive Investors Australia
• 62CN: Standard Bank Plc: FRN Variable Rate Fix
  62CN: Standard Bank Plc: FRN Variable Rate Fix UK Regulatory Announcement LONDON Re: Standard Bank Plc. ZAR 85,000,000.00 MATURING: 11-Nov-2013 ISIN: XS0558411525   PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE INTEREST RATE FOR THE PERIOD 13-Feb-2012 TO 11-May ...
  Bloomberg
• Lifeline for Greece...Turn for worse in Syria?...Southern Baptist name change
  The conversation came in the wake of a three-day summit in Pakistan attended by Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (AH'-seef ah-LEE' zar-DAH'-ree) and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd). BEIRUT (AP ...
  KTUU