{"id":9482,"date":"2012-03-30T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-feb-trade-account-in-7-5-bln-rand-deficit\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:36","slug":"s-africa-feb-trade-account-in-7-5-bln-rand-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-feb-trade-account-in-7-5-bln-rand-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa Feb trade account in 7.5 bln rand deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade<br \/>\naccount recorded a 7.5 billion rand ($967.42 million) deficit in<br \/>\nFebruary compared with a 13.5 billion rand shortfall in January,<br \/>\nthe South African Revenue Service said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trade deficit was 0.2 billion rand in the same month in<br \/>\n2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exports rose by 4.2 percent month-on-month to 56.3 billion<br \/>\nrand in February while imports decreased by 5.6 percent to 63.7<br \/>\nbillion rand, SARS data showed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by Reuters expected a shortfall of 5.0<br \/>\nbillion rand for February but the data is volatile and thus hard<br \/>\nto forecast.<br \/>\n($1 = 7.7525 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Tiisetso<br \/>\nMotsoeneng)<\/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, March 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade account recorded a 7.5 billion rand ($967.42 million) deficit in February compared with a 13.5 billion rand shortfall in January, the South African Revenue Service said on Friday. The trade deficit was 0.2 billion rand in the same month in 2011. Exports rose by 4.2 percent month-on-month [&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-9482","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\/9482","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=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}