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Your support makes all the difference.SOUTH AFRICA's stock market surged to fresh year highs, as institutions grabbed stock in anticipation that supply would be tight ahead of the millennium.
A late rash of futures-related trading and signs that Wall Street would open firmer pushed stocks north. The All-Share index added 89 points - 1.19 per cent - to 7,590.7, its peak for the session and its highest level since last August, in the middle of an emerging markets financial crisis that knocked 44 per cent off the bourse's value.
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