Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Weekend Briefing: All Share Near 117,000 as Rand Strength and Precious-Metals Rally Set Up Monday’s Reopen
NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2025, 9:11 a.m. ET — Market closed South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is heading into the final trading stretch of 2025 with a familiar set of forces in the driver’s seat: precious metals, the South African rand, and a heavy dose of year-end positioning. With U.S. markets closed for the weekend, JSE investors are also in “watch mode” — tracking moves in metals and the dollar while waiting for the next session in Johannesburg. The JSE’s equity market is shut today (weekend), after an early close on Christmas Eve and two public-holiday closures that thinned