{"id":7408,"date":"2012-01-26T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africas-rand-nears-3-mth-high-bonds-extend-gains\/"},"modified":"2012-01-26T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:12:56","slug":"s-africas-rand-nears-3-mth-high-bonds-extend-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-nears-3-mth-high-bonds-extend-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand nears 3-mth high, bonds extend gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 26 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand<br \/>\ntouched a near 3-month high against the dollar and government<br \/>\nbonds extended gains, tracking a global market rally as<br \/>\nfavourable U.S. jobs data boosted risk appetite.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand was up 1.2 percent at 7.79\/dollar by 1348 GMT after<br \/>\nbriefly touching 7.78, its strongest level since Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The yield on the 2015 bond fell as much as 19<br \/>\nbasis points to a two-month low of 6.47 percent while that for<br \/>\nthe 2026 bond was down 15.5 basis points at 8.22<br \/>\npercent.  \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa and 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 26 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand touched a near 3-month high against the dollar and government bonds extended gains, tracking a global market rally as favourable U.S. jobs data boosted risk appetite. The rand was up 1.2 percent at 7.79\/dollar by 1348 GMT after briefly touching 7.78, its strongest level since Oct. 31. [&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-7408","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\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}