{"id":12279,"date":"2012-07-11T00:26:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-africa-bond-yields-fall-to-new-lows\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T00:26:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:26:47","slug":"s-africa-bond-yields-fall-to-new-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-bond-yields-fall-to-new-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa bond yields fall to new lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 10<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Yields on South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nbenchmark bonds fell to a record low on Tuesday as offshore<br \/>\ninflows continued to pour into the debt market, helping the rand<br \/>\nfirm slightly.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2015 and 2021 bonds were trading at<br \/>\na yield of 5.89 percent and 7.07 percent respectively, their<br \/>\nlowest levels since they were issued.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yields also edged lower at a debt auction on Tuesday in<br \/>\nwhich the Treasury sold a total of 2.1 billion rand of its 2018<br \/>\n, 2031 and 2023 bonds<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The approaching inclusion of South African bonds in the<br \/>\nCitigroup World Government Bond Index on Oct. 1 has heightened<br \/>\nforeign investor interest in the bond market in the last few<br \/>\nmonths.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still seeing a lot of inflows into the bond market,&#8221;<br \/>\nsaid Warrick Butler, a trader at Standard Bank. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much<br \/>\ninvestment in the bond market because of the WGBI in October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand firmed by 0.2 percent to 8.2040 to the<br \/>\ndollar at 1536 GMT, from a close of 8.2195 on Monday. It hit a<br \/>\nsession high of 8.1595.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Tosin Sulaiman; editing by Ron Askew)<\/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, July 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Yields on South Africa&#8217;s benchmark bonds fell to a record low on Tuesday as offshore inflows continued to pour into the debt market, helping the rand firm slightly. The 2015 and 2021 bonds were trading at a yield of 5.89 percent and 7.07 percent respectively, their lowest levels since they [&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-12279","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\/12279","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=12279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}