{"id":11338,"date":"2012-06-11T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africa-to-join-citigroups-wgbi-bond-index-in-october\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:07:44","slug":"s-africa-to-join-citigroups-wgbi-bond-index-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-to-join-citigroups-wgbi-bond-index-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa to join Citigroup&#8217;s WGBI bond index in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has satisfied<br \/>\nall criteria for the World Government Bond Index for three<br \/>\nconsecutive months and from October will be the first African<br \/>\ngovernment bond market included in the index, Citigroup said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 11 South African government bonds eligible for<br \/>\nthe WGBI. The market value of these bonds is $83.0 billion,<br \/>\nwhich represents a pro forma market weight of 0.41 percent in<br \/>\nthe WGBI,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has satisfied all criteria for the World Government Bond Index for three consecutive months and from October will be the first African government bond market included in the index, Citigroup said. &#8220;There are 11 South African government bonds eligible for the WGBI. The market value of these bonds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}