{"id":7767,"date":"2012-02-08T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africas-jan-business-confidence-index-down-at-97-1\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:49:50","slug":"s-africas-jan-business-confidence-index-down-at-97-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-jan-business-confidence-index-down-at-97-1\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Jan business confidence index down at 97.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nbusiness confidence index decreased to a 20-month low 97.1 in<br \/>\nJanuary from 99.1 in December, the South African Chamber of<br \/>\nCommerce and Industry said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The business grouping the outlook in 2012 was clouded by<br \/>\nlower economic growth, unemployment, higher inflation and weak<br \/>\nmunicipal service delivery.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SACCI said President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s State of the Nation<br \/>\naddress on Thursday and the Treasury&#8217;s budget announcement later<br \/>\nthis month should promote policy consistency in the public<br \/>\nsector and lead to enhancements in the business environment. \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 Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s business confidence index decreased to a 20-month low 97.1 in January from 99.1 in December, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday. The business grouping the outlook in 2012 was clouded by lower economic growth, unemployment, higher inflation and weak municipal service delivery. SACCI [&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-7767","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\/7767","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=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}