{"id":14823,"date":"2012-09-20T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-central-bank-leaves-rates-steady-at-5-pct\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:42:21","slug":"s-africas-central-bank-leaves-rates-steady-at-5-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-central-bank-leaves-rates-steady-at-5-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s central bank leaves rates steady at 5 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PRETORIA, Sept 20<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Reserve Bank<br \/>\nleft its repo rate unchanged as expected at 5 percent on<br \/>\nThursday, saying it had already preemptively cut rates at its<br \/>\nprevious meeting.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five of the 28 economists polled by Reuters had<br \/>\nforecast that the Bank&#8217;s Monetary Policy Committee would keep<br \/>\nthe repo rate &#8211; at which it lends to commercial banks  &#8211;<br \/>\nunchanged after a surprise 50 basis point cut in July.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Writing by Xola Potelwa;editing<br \/>\nby David Dolan)<\/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>PRETORIA, Sept 20 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Reserve Bank left its repo rate unchanged as expected at 5 percent on Thursday, saying it had already preemptively cut rates at its previous meeting. Twenty-five of the 28 economists polled by Reuters had forecast that the Bank&#8217;s Monetary Policy Committee would keep the repo rate &#8211; at [&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-14823","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\/14823","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=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}