{"id":834087,"date":"2025-08-05T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=834087"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:12:10","slug":"24-hour-trading-could-be-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/834087\/24-hour-trading-could-be-coming-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"24-hour trading could be coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Africa\u2019s largest stock exchange is considering introducing 24-hour trading, the JSE Ltd.\u2019s chief executive officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are investigating this avenue and we\u2019ll work with our market to make sure that we deliver what\u2019s right for the South African market,\u201d Leila Fourie said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exchanges globally are contemplating widening their trading windows as more individual investors trade on their smartphones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Stock Exchange Inc., Nasdaq Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc. have applied in recent months to extend their trading hours and the London Stock Exchange is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-20\/london-stock-exchange-group-weighs-24-hour-trading-ft-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also considering it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased with the announcements by large exchanges to move to a 24-hour cycle, because it\u2019s net positive and net beneficial for South Africa, largely because we have so many dual-listed counters,\u201d Fourie said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decision will be taken on extending the JSE\u2019s operating hours in the \u201cmedium- to long-term\u201d after consultations, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JSE\u2019s shares gained as much as 1.9% and traded 0.3% higher at 136.73 rand by 13h42 in Johannesburg, after the company earlier reported first-half earnings before interest and tax grew 15% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s largest stock exchange is considering introducing 24-hour trading, the JSE Ltd.\u2019s chief executive officer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":689943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-834087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-jse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834088,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834087\/revisions\/834088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}