Shares of engineering firm Murray & Roberts (M&R) rocketed by over a quarter on Tuesday, after it announced the sale of Australian subsidiary Clough for about R4 billion, which at a stroke of a pen will remove the threat of shareholders having to bail the firm out of its cash crunch in the country.
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