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19th Jan 2012

Interest Rate remains unchanged!

The South African Reserve Bank left its repo rate unchanged at 5.5% on Thursday as expected, with concerns about a slowing economy off-setting the pressures from inflation, which is likely to stay outside its target band for longer than previously expected.

At its first policy meeting of 2012, the bank raised its inflation forecast, saying it expected inflation to be outside its 3-6% target range throughout 2012, with the recent depreciation of the rand being the main ...[MORE]

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Date & Weather

Date: 04.02.2012
Time: 18:01

Capetown:

Temp.: 29 °C / 84 °F
Wind: S / 13 kn
Sunrise: 05:43
Sunset: 20:15

Johannesburg:

Temp.: 19 °C / 66 °F
Wind: VRB / 3 kn
Sunrise: 05:19
Sunset: 19:22
IBN News (5th Feb 2009): Drastic drop in Interest Rates

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Drastic drop in Interest Rates - 5th Feb 2009

Today the South African Reserve Bank broke with it's tradition of changing interest rates in half percent steps with reducing the repo rate by 1.0%. Thus the prime lending rate dropped from 15% to 14%. The reason for this drastic step can be seen in the positive outlook for a further drop in inflation (currently 9.5%), fuelled by the fear of an accelerating decline in economic growth from currently 4.3%. According to internal discussions Tito Mboweni had even suggested a 2% cut, which leaves hope for another 1% drop in the prime lending rate in April.
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