Tag: exchange rate
Food inflation ended its 8-month deceleration, ticking 4.1% higher y-y in August 2024
By Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist, FNB Commercial
The latest update on South Africa’s consumer price inflation showed a further slowdown to 4.4% y/y in August 2024, which is a 40-month low...
Exporters may benefit from a weak rand, but they must still keep a close...
By Harry Scherzer, CEO, Future Forex
For most ordinary South Africans, the declining value of the rand over the past few years has been a big negative. It’s meant that everything from...
What to expect from the announcement on Thursday
Prof Andre Roux is an economist at Stellenbosch Business School
Just as the Reserve Bank Governor announced the increase in the repo rate two months ago, we knew that another hike was...
Meet SA’s newest stock exchange
South Africa’s newest stock exchange A2X Markets made its debut on Friday with three secondary listings and four of the industry’s leading brokers on board.
Financial services companies, African Rainbow...
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Transport Month panel discussion tackles Cape Town’s congestion conundrum
The City’s Urban Mobility Directorate kicked off Transport Month with a panel discussion around Cape Town’s congestion conundrum at the Concourse in the Civic...