{"id":11696,"date":"2012-06-21T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africas-rand-drops-after-current-ac-gap-widens\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:37:41","slug":"s-africas-rand-drops-after-current-ac-gap-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-drops-after-current-ac-gap-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand drops after current a\/c gap widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 21<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand<br \/>\nweakened 1 percent against the dollar on Thursday after data<br \/>\nshowed the country&#8217;s current account deficit had widened to 4.9<br \/>\npercent of GDP in the first quarter.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand was trading down 0.98 percent against the<br \/>\ndollar 8.2605 at 0844 GMT.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Vuyani Ndaba; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/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 21 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand weakened 1 percent against the dollar on Thursday after data showed the country&#8217;s current account deficit had widened to 4.9 percent of GDP in the first quarter. The rand was trading down 0.98 percent against the dollar 8.2605 at 0844 GMT. (Reporting by Vuyani Ndaba; Editing by [&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-11696","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\/11696","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=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}