{"id":6404,"date":"2011-12-24T00:43:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/s-africas-rand-bonds-edge-higher-in-thin-trade\/"},"modified":"2011-12-24T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:43:52","slug":"s-africas-rand-bonds-edge-higher-in-thin-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-bonds-edge-higher-in-thin-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand, bonds edge higher in thin trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rand rangebound in lacklustre year-end trade<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bonds hold firm, boosted by lack of new supply<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Dec 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand<br \/>\nedged higher against the dollar and government bonds were also<br \/>\nfirmer in thin trading on Friday as domestic markets closed<br \/>\nearly ahead of an extended weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bond exchange has been finishing earlier than usual as<br \/>\nthe year draws to a close and Johannesburg currency traders also<br \/>\nclosed early at around 1000 GMT on Friday, ahead of the<br \/>\nChristmas weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Local financial markets will be closed on Monday and Tuesday<br \/>\nfor public holidays.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By 1343 GMT, the rand traded at 8.1585 against the<br \/>\ngreenback, up 0.42 percent from the previous close of 8.1930,<br \/>\nbut off this week&#8217;s high of 8.07 reached on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dollar\/rand has bounced between 8.1000-8.2000, with<br \/>\neuro\/dollar going nowhere fast in increasingly thin markets,&#8221;<br \/>\n said Christopher Shiells, an emerging markets analyst at<br \/>\nInforma Global Markets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Government bonds edged higher, partly supported by lack of<br \/>\nnew supply after the Treasury suspended its weekly primary<br \/>\nauctions until the new year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The yield on the short-dated paper dipped half a<br \/>\nbasis point to a two week low of 6.755 percent and that for the<br \/>\n15-year bond shed 1.5 basis points to 8.52 percent.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Rand rangebound in lacklustre year-end trade * Bonds hold firm, boosted by lack of new supply JOHANNESBURG Dec 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand edged higher against the dollar and government bonds were also firmer in thin trading on Friday as domestic markets closed early ahead of an extended weekend. The bond exchange has [&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-6404","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\/6404","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=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}