The JSE, the rand, shares, commodities and the moves driving South African markets.
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Africa's largest share sale opens in Lagos on Monday at a price well above what institutions paid in July, and the JSE wants the secondary listing.
The offer opens on 14 September at 525 naira a share, and the money is going into doubling the plant.
The FTSE/JSE Rafi 40 is gone, and the Satrix and Old Mutual funds built on it are measuring themselves against something else.
A2X says its members now handle 85% of the listed-share trades executed in South Africa, and from Monday Capitec's shares trade there as well as on the JSE.
The bank's case rests on three more years of the fiscal discipline that already earned South Africa its first Fitch upgrade in two decades.
Four years, three cities and a valuation a quarter of what it once was: Shein listed in Hong Kong on Tuesday and the market was unimpressed.
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The sector's return index rose about 38% in August, turning a year that had been down 20% into a year that is up, with eight of the market's ten best shares coming from mining.
A US Treasury plan to buy back its own long-dated bonds weakened the dollar, and $7.2 billion of bearish crypto positions were liquidated in the week that followed.
Hong Kong's largest follow-on share sale sent Alibaba's stock down 8.5% in a day, and its chairman, its chief executive and Jack Ma all bought in afterwards.
Shein opened its Hong Kong offer on Monday at a valuation near $27 billion, after import charges in the United States and the European Union turned a $395 million quarterly profit into a $99 million loss.
The copper business made a record US$18 billion last year and BHP's Johannesburg listing has passed R4 trillion on the strength of it, with analysts almost entirely unconvinced.
The Treasury said it would double its buybacks of long-dated debt, yields fell, and the largest cryptocurrency added 22% over five days.