{"id":481,"date":"2007-07-02T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-02T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:51:00","slug":"telkom-share-price-takes-a-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/481-telkom-share-price-takes-a-beating.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom share price takes a beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom shares closed at R 167-50 today, down R 10-90 from its Friday closing price of R 178-40. Analysts warned that the fallout from the investor community about the failed BCX bid would only become visible today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Shareholders were waiting for the R 11-00 dividend payout, recorded in the company&#39;s register at the close of business on Friday, before selling their shares.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It is evident that investors are not overly optimistic about Telkom&rsquo;s current position. The negative reaction may be related to reports that Telkom may sell their stake in Vodacom and could be facing tough competition from a variety of sources and not just Neotel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79978\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telkom share price took a beating today following its dividend payment and the ruling from the Competition Tribunal to block their acquisition of BCX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}