{"id":6104,"date":"2011-12-14T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/s-africas-rand-near-two-week-low-bonds-edge-down\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:15:43","slug":"s-africas-rand-near-two-week-low-bonds-edge-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-near-two-week-low-bonds-edge-down\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand near two-week low, bonds edge down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rand seen weaker, 8.4630 next key level<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Govt bonds still weak, market thin<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Nov consumer inflation due at 0800 GMT<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African<br \/>\nrand languished near a two-week low against the dollar in early<br \/>\ntrade on Wednesday, and traders said the currency would probably<br \/>\ntest weaker levels amid negative risk sentiment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Local trade has been taking direction from the battered euro<br \/>\ncurrency, as investors dump riskier assets and push into the<br \/>\nrelative safety of the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Analysts say as long as Europe&#8217;s crisis remains unresolved,<br \/>\nany risk appetite is unlikely to last for long.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Domestic consumer inflation, due at 0800 GMT, is seen to<br \/>\nhave crept higher and breached the top of the central bank&#8217;s 3-6<br \/>\npercent target, touching 6.2 percent in November, suggesting<br \/>\nprices may be rising faster than the central bank expected.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Inflation was at 6 percent in October and the bank has<br \/>\npredicted a 6.3 percent peak in the first quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand was 0.36 percent firmer at 8.3300 against<br \/>\nthe dollar by 0646 GMT near a two-week low and compared to the<br \/>\nclose of 8.36 on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Rand seen weaker, 8.4630 next key level * Govt bonds still weak, market thin * Nov consumer inflation due at 0800 GMT JOHANNESBURG, Dec 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African rand languished near a two-week low against the dollar in early trade on Wednesday, and traders said the currency would probably test weaker levels [&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-6104","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\/6104","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=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}