{"id":13960,"date":"2025-10-28T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-flat-as-investors-focus-on-us-rate-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:40","slug":"rand-flat-as-investors-focus-on-us-rate-decision","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-flat-as-investors-focus-on-us-rate-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand flat as investors focus on US rate decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African (SA) Rand was flat in early trade this Tuesday, as investors waited for some of the week&#8217;s big events, including a United States (US) interest-rate decision and a possible trade deal between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At 09:43 CAT the Rand traded at 17.2675 against the Dollar, about 0.2% lower than its previous close.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Economists have said the US Federal Reserve is poised to reduce interest rates by 25 basis points at its meeting this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fed will influence inflation and interest rate expectations and could materially impact how the USD trades. The US-China trade talks could influence global risk appetite, while all the domestic data hold implications for domestic monetary policy and the impact that will have on the ZAR&#8217;s carry attractiveness,&#8221; said ETM Analytics in a research note.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Domestically-focused traders will look to money supply and private sector credit, trade and budget balance figures and producer inflation numbers this week for clues on the health of Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Top-40 index flat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SA&#8217;s benchmark 2035 government bond was also steady, with the yield at 8.885%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13961,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13960","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The South African (SA) Rand was flat in early trade this Tuesday","published_date":"2025-10-28 10:44:01","news_description":"The South African (SA) Rand was flat in early trade this Tuesday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18838,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13960\/revisions\/18838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}