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\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JOHANNESBURG, April 13 (Reuters) – Nedbank’s Dennis Dykes was named Reuters South Africa Economist of the Year on Friday for most accurately predicting key domestic economic indicators for 2011. Analysts were ranked according to their accuracy in forecasting economic outcomes for the Reuters Econometer and the frequency of their participation. The econometer is a monthly […]<\/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-9906","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\/9906","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=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JOHANNESBURG, April 13 (Reuters) - Nedbank's Dennis Dykes\nwas named Reuters South Africa Economist of the Year on Friday\nfor most accurately predicting key domestic economic indicators\nfor 2011.\t\n Analysts were ranked according to their accuracy in\nforecasting economic outcomes for the Reuters Econometer and the\nfrequency of their participation.\t\n The econometer is a monthly confidence barometer derived\nfrom six major indicators including GDP, inflation, the foreign\nexchange rate and the 10-year government bond.\t\n Around 22 economists from banks, fund managers, think-tanks\nand other corporations took part in the competition, now in its\n12th year.\t\n Colen Garrow of Brait was named best forecaster of GDP\ngrowth while Johan Rossouw of Vunani Securities was best\nforecaster of inflation.\t\n Absa Capital and Nedbank both estimated best the repo rate\nwith equal accuracy.\t\n The top 10 ranking of economists follows:\t\n 1 Nedbank Dennis Dykes\n 2 Eskom Kabelo Masike\n 3 KADD Capital Elize Kruger\n 4 IDC Nico Kelder\n 5 Brait Colen Garrow\n 6 Vunani Securities Johan Rossouw\n 7 Nomura Peter Attard Montalto\n 8 Renaissance Capital Elna Moolman\n 9 Morgan Stanley Andrea Masia\n 10 Absa Capital Jeffrey Schultz\n \t\n \t\n\t\n (Reporting by Vuyani Ndaba)<\/pre>\n