{"id":15317,"date":"2012-10-06T05:33:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africas-rand-hammered-to-3-12-year-lows\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T05:33:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T03:33:14","slug":"s-africas-rand-hammered-to-3-12-year-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-hammered-to-3-12-year-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand hammered to 3-1\/2 year lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<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 2.6  percent on Friday, plumbing a<br \/>\n3-1\/2 year low as investors dumped local assets on worries about<br \/>\nthe impact of illegal strikes sweeping Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand fell to 8.7370 to the greenback, its<br \/>\nweakest level since May 2009, according to Reuters data.<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand extended losses against the dollar to 2.6 percent on Friday, plumbing a 3-1\/2 year low as investors dumped local assets on worries about the impact of illegal strikes sweeping Africa&#8217;s biggest economy. The rand fell to 8.7370 to the greenback, its weakest level since May 2009, according [&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-15317","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\/15317","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=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}