ECONOMY NEWS ON FASTMOVING

Cape Town - South African consumers are maintaining an upbeat attitude, according to an index which shows consumer confidence has kept a positive year-on-year outlook. read more

Johannesburg - Job growth slowed in February to an annual rate of 1.5% - or 24 000 jobs created, according to the Adcorp Employment Index released on Monday. read more

Johannesburg - South Africa’s economic growth is likely to have accelerated in the fourth quarter of last year, driven mainly by higher consumer demand boosted by lower interest rates, a Reuters poll showed on Monday. read more

This is a busy week on the local front, with a string of important economic data due for release. Among the most anticipated are SA's fourth quarter gross domestic product figures, credit extension data and the purchasing managers index. read more

Johannesburg - The rand steadied against the dollar on Thursday and was likely to trade within a narrow range ahead of the interest rate decision later. read more

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's logistics group Transnet plans to spend at least 100 billion rand to build a new port in Durban, the Business Report newspaper reported on Tuesday. read more

The South African economy and its consumers are doing better. South Africans are again buying cars and electrical appliances. Those with slimmer budgets are spoiling themselves with smaller luxuries like cosmetics or chatting on their cellphones. South Africans are buying again read more