{"id":6679,"date":"2012-01-05T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africas-rand-falls-1-6-pct-against-dollar\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:17:08","slug":"s-africas-rand-falls-1-6-pct-against-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-falls-1-6-pct-against-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand falls 1.6 pct against dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand<br \/>\nsnapped a four-day winning streak on Wednesday to fall 1.6<br \/>\npercent against the dollar, tracking a weaker euro as concerns<br \/>\nabout the Europe&#8217;s crisis persist.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand fell to 8.1870 on the day against the<br \/>\ngreenback, its weakest level since December 29.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Government bonds followed the weaker currency in an illiquid<br \/>\nmarket. Yields on the benchmark 2015 bonds were up 11<br \/>\nbasis points to 6.85 percent and on the 2026 issues<br \/>\nyields climbed 13.5 basis points to 8.635 percent.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa)<\/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 Jan 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand snapped a four-day winning streak on Wednesday to fall 1.6 percent against the dollar, tracking a weaker euro as concerns about the Europe&#8217;s crisis persist. The rand fell to 8.1870 on the day against the greenback, its weakest level since December 29. Government bonds followed the weaker [&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-6679","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\/6679","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=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}