The gold price reached $1 456.92 (R21 483.40) an ounce yesterday, 0.78 percent higher than Friday’s close of $1 440.03 an ounce.

AgriSA said that its members had the potential to supply the electricity needed to prevent future rolling blackouts, known as load shedding.

Andre Botha, a senior dealer at TreasuryONE, said risky assets were on the back foot as Brent reached its highest level in 2019.

Bread has reason from RTGS$1.50 to RTGS$3.50 in the past two days while prices of other basic commodities have also risen massively.

Sibanye-Stillwater on Thursday further enhanced its liquidity position by concluding a forward gold sale arrangement with Citibank.

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Optimism that the US would reach a trade agreement with China boosted US Treasury yields to their highest this year.

Most diamond and jewellery stores publish their own diamond price lists, the information provided would be biased in favour of their business.

Crude slid to the lowest in seven weeks as economic turbulence in Turkey and the strengthening greenback heightened concerns about global oil demand.

Resources stocks take advantage of the weaker rand and drive the JSE higher.

A huge oil refinery being built in Nigeria by Africa’s richest man is unlikely to start production until 2022.

Rand opens about 0.5 percent weaker on Tuesday, trading near the R13.40 mark before strengthening to R13.28 during intraday trade.

The tit-for-tat tariff war between the US and China hit the rand and saw the FTSE/JSE All Share Index lose more than 1 percent.

The coal price rally is expected to get derailed over the next 2 years amid expectations that China and India, were likely to address domestic issues.

Cobalt left other metals in the dust this year, driven by demand from electric carmakers like Tesla Inc.

Companies like Ursa Space Systems and Orbital Insight are using satellites to shed light on tightly held secrets in the commodity trading world.