Absa Group Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ended 30 June 2020. The Group's normalised headline earnings per share (HEPS) for first half of 2020 is expected to be between 80% and 85% lower than the 977.5 cents for the six months ended 30 June 2019 (the "comparative period"). On an IFRS basis, first half of 2020 HEPS and earnings per share are expected to decline by between 92% and 97% from the comparative period's 920.0 and 918.9 cents, respectively.