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Repo rate cut by 100 basis points

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This takes the rate to 5.25% per annum, from 6.25%
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Making sense of tax-free savings and investment

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Have you made the most of your tax-free investment contributions?
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Vocabulary needed to make sense of the new normal

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Negative rates are seriously spooking markets. Money managers are used to getting a positive return on their investments
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Interest rates likely unchanged until late 2019 – Nedbank

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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

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

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"Although offering consumers relief on interest payments, the cut is the product of stalled economic growth."
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Reserve Bank announces surprise interest rate cut

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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

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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

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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%

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As was widely anticipated, the South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee has decided to hold interest rates.
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Massive foreign sell-off jolts SA

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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.
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Climbing interest rates a warning to SA

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Increasingly difficult times lie ahead and inflation fears outweigh concerns about economic growth.
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More pain in store for SA with US Fed rate hike

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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

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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

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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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