{"id":2355,"date":"2014-09-18T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijg-research.net\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:32:45","slug":"sarb-keeps-rate-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/sarb-keeps-rate-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"SARB keeps rate unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Reserve Bank kept interest rates unchanged at 5.75% in their September meeting, citing a marginally improved inflation outlook (despite high August inflation at 6.4%), coupled with an anemic growth outlook. The improved inflation outlook comes despite a weakening exchange rate vs the US dollar, on account of notable declines in global food and fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to keep rates unchanged was in line with expectations, and is viewed as a positive for the SA markets. Additionally, the decision means that the Bank of Namibia is less likely to hike rates at their next MPC meeting in October.<\/p>\n<p>The full statement can be seen below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"gview-native-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPC-Statement-18-September-2014-.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800px\" style=\"border:1px solid #ccc;max-width:100%;\"><p>Your browser can&#039;t display this PDF inline. <a href=\"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPC-Statement-18-September-2014-.pdf\">Download it instead<\/a><\/p><\/iframe><p class=\"gview-download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPC-Statement-18-September-2014-.pdf\">Download (PDF, 187 KB)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Reserve Bank kept interest rates unchanged at 5.75% in their September meeting, citing a marginally improved inflation outlook (despite high August inflation at 6.4%), coupled with an anemic growth outlook. The improved inflation outlook comes despite a weakening exchange rate vs the US dollar, on account of&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/sarb-keeps-rate-unchanged\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economicresearch","category-teamcommentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zfYc-BZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ijg.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}