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Repo rate cut by 100 basis points

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 19 Mar 2020

This takes the rate to 5.25% per annum, from 6.25%

Making sense of tax-free savings and investment

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Feb 2020

Have you made the most of your tax-free investment contributions?

Vocabulary needed to make sense of the new normal

Article Kevin Davie - 16 Aug 2019

Negative rates are seriously spooking markets. Money managers are used to getting a positive return on their investments

Interest rates likely unchanged until late 2019 – Nedbank

Article Carin Smith - 1 May 2018

Nedbank Group's Economic Unit forecasted on Monday that interest rates in South Africa will remain unchanged into late 2019

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Consumer health improves but consumers are not yet clear— Transunion

Article Thulebona Mhlanga - 6 Mar 2018

The appreciation of the rand, low food inflation and stable interest rates have been positive for consumer confidence.

Surprise interest rate cut

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Jul 2017

"Although offering consumers relief on interest payments, the cut is the product of stalled economic growth."

Reserve Bank announces surprise interest rate cut

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Jul 2017

The South African Reserve Bank's surprise decision to cut interest rates by 0.25% offers some reprieve for financially strained South Africans.

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Reserve Bank leaves repo rate unchanged, warns of risks to the rand

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Nov 2016

The MPC decided unanimously to leave the benchmark repurchase rate at 7%.

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The role of central banks is changing: What South Africans should look out for

Article Danny Bradlow - 30 Aug 2016

The 2008 financial crisis exposed major gaps in central banks' operations. New features like quantitative easing have since emerged.

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Reserve Bank decides to hold repo rate at 7% and prime lending rate at 10.5%

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Jul 2016

As was widely anticipated, the South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee has decided to hold interest rates.

Massive foreign sell-off jolts SA

Article Lloyd Gedye - 28 Jan 2016

Foreign investors pulled R12.8-billion in one week, the biggest outflow since 2008, casting a harsh light on policy direction and the trade deficit.

Climbing interest rates a warning to SA

Article Lynley Donnelly - 28 Jan 2016

Increasingly difficult times lie ahead and inflation fears outweigh concerns about economic growth.

More pain in store for SA with US Fed rate hike

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Dec 2015

South Africa is among the developing nations who will be worse affected by the US tightening - the first rate hike in seven years.

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Mario Draghi unleashes fresh wave of monetary stimulus

Article Jeff Black - 3 Dec 2015

Fed chair Janet Yellen's raising of US interest rates has prompted the European banker to loosen monetary policy to stimulate consumer prices.

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Economists predict Reserve Bank to hold repo rate

Article Lynley Donnelly - 21 Sep 2015

In light of the US Federal Reserve's decision not to hike interest rates, the SA Reserve Bank is expected to follow suit and hold the repo rate.

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