{"id":7685,"date":"2012-02-06T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africas-rand-down-1-5-percent-against-dollar\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:44:53","slug":"s-africas-rand-down-1-5-percent-against-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-rand-down-1-5-percent-against-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s rand down 1.5 percent against dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand<br \/>\nfell 1.5 percent against the dollar on Monday as uncertainty<br \/>\nover a bailout for debt-ridden Greece dampened risk sentiment,<br \/>\nhitting emerging markets.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand briefly touched a session low of 7.6344 to<br \/>\nthe greenback and was at 7.63 by 1028 GMT compared with Friday&#8217;s<br \/>\nclose at 7.52. Government bonds extended losses, and the yield<br \/>\non the three year bond was up 7.5 basis points on the<br \/>\nday at 6.505 percent.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Olivia Kumwenda)<\/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 Feb 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s rand fell 1.5 percent against the dollar on Monday as uncertainty over a bailout for debt-ridden Greece dampened risk sentiment, hitting emerging markets. The rand briefly touched a session low of 7.6344 to the greenback and was at 7.63 by 1028 GMT compared with Friday&#8217;s close at 7.52. [&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-7685","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\/7685","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=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}