{"id":15292,"date":"2012-10-05T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/rpt-s-africas-rand-bonds-weaken-on-strike-woes\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:33:01","slug":"rpt-s-africas-rand-bonds-weaken-on-strike-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-s-africas-rand-bonds-weaken-on-strike-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-S.Africa&#8217;s rand, bonds weaken on strike woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Repeats to chain to alerts)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand extended<br \/>\nlosses against the dollar to 2 percent and government bonds fell<br \/>\nsharply after Anglo American Platinum said it had<br \/>\ndismissed around 12,000 striking workers, escalating a labour<br \/>\ncrisis that has dented investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand hit a session trough of 8.6950 to the<br \/>\ndollar, edging closer to a 3-1\/2 year low, while the yield on<br \/>\nthe three year bond rose as much as 13 basis points to<br \/>\n5.45 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The yield for the longer dated 2026 bond jumped<br \/>\n17.5 basis points to a session high of 7.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/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>(Repeats to chain to alerts) JOHANNESBURG Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand extended losses against the dollar to 2 percent and government bonds fell sharply after Anglo American Platinum said it had dismissed around 12,000 striking workers, escalating a labour crisis that has dented investor confidence. The rand hit a session trough of 8.6950 [&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-15292","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\/15292","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=15292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}