Food inflation has improved from 7.2% in January 2024 to 2.5% in December, compared with consumer price inflation that ...
South Africa's rand gained on Friday, lifted by stronger precious metal prices and the local central bank's hawkish tone at a monetary policy announcement a day earlier.
Platinum miners, Anglo American Platinum, Northam Platinum and Impala Platinum advanced 5. 5%, 3. 5% and 3. 3%, respectively.
The MPC is now like a war room girding for Trump’s trade wars, which it sees possibly knocking the rand to R21/dlr and fanning the flames of inflation again.