{"id":11961,"date":"2012-06-29T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T10:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africas-rand-firms-1-8-pct-against-dlr\/"},"modified":"2012-06-29T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T10:04:18","slug":"s-africas-rand-firms-1-8-pct-against-dlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-firms-1-8-pct-against-dlr\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand firms 1.8 pct against dlr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 29<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand gained<br \/>\n1.8 percent against the dollar on Friday to its strongest level<br \/>\nin more than a week, tracking a firmer euro after European<br \/>\nleaders agreed to lower Italy and Spain&#8217;s borrowing costs.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The local currency touched a session high of 8.2495\/dollar<br \/>\nand was at 8.2641 by 0927 GMT compared with Thursday&#8217;s close of<br \/>\n8.4010.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/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 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand gained 1.8 percent against the dollar on Friday to its strongest level in more than a week, tracking a firmer euro after European leaders agreed to lower Italy and Spain&#8217;s borrowing costs. The local currency touched a session high of 8.2495\/dollar and was at 8.2641 by 0927 [&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-11961","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\/11961","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=11961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}