{"id":15541,"date":"2012-10-13T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africas-rand-weakens-on-sp-downgrade\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:52:05","slug":"s-africas-rand-weakens-on-sp-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-weakens-on-sp-downgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand weakens on S&amp;P downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand<br \/>\nweakened on Friday after ratings agency SP downgraded the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s local and foreign currency sovereign ratings, saying<br \/>\nunderlying social tensions would increase government spending<br \/>\npressure and reduce fiscal flexibility.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand fell to 8.76 to the dollar by 1648 GMT,<br \/>\ndown from 8.70 before the release and losing more than 1.1<br \/>\npecent on the day.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/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 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand weakened on Friday after ratings agency SP downgraded the country&#8217;s local and foreign currency sovereign ratings, saying underlying social tensions would increase government spending pressure and reduce fiscal flexibility. The rand fell to 8.76 to the dollar by 1648 GMT, down from 8.70 before the release and [&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-15541","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\/15541","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=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}