Investing.com – South Africa stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Coal Mining, Other Mineral Extractors and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Johannesburg, the FTSE/JSE Top 40 declined 0.58%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE/JSE Top 40 were Discovery Holdings Ltd (JO:DSYJ), which rose 1.90% or 243 points to trade at 12819 at the close. Meanwhile, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (JO:ANGJ) added 1.71% or 179 points to end at 10650 and Rmih (JO:RMIJ) was up 1.70% or 73.00 points to 4375.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Kumba Iron Ore Ltd (JO:KIOJ), which fell 5.72% or 804 points to trade at 13249 at the close. Mr Price (JO:MPCJ) declined 1.89% or 480.00 points to end at 24891.00 and BHP Billiton Ltd (JO:BILJ) was down 1.58% or 386 points to 23991.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by 130 to 119 and 11 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.41% or 1.37 to $55.56 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.76% or 1.72 to hit $60.35 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.33% or 3.80 to trade at $1167.30 a troy ounce.
USD/ZAR was up 0.40% to 12.3015, while EUR/ZAR rose 0.61% to 13.6596.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 96.18.