{"id":14561,"date":"2025-11-05T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-pauses-slide-as-investors-await-next-catalyst\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:06","slug":"rand-pauses-slide-as-investors-await-next-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-pauses-slide-as-investors-await-next-catalyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand pauses slide as investors await next catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Rand inched up early on Wednesday, attempting a recovery from an almost two-month low as investors awaited fresh signals on the global and domestic economic outlook.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Rand traded at 17.49 per Dollar , up about 0.3% after falling more than 1% on Tuesday amid weaker gold prices, in line with other commodity-linked currencies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Investors now await the Standard and Poor\u00a0Global October whole-economy for insights into business conditions in Africa\u2019s most industrialised economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last month&#8217;s index showed that business conditions in SA&#8217;s private sector improved for the fifth month running in September, buoyed by a rise in output and new orders.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It also flagged that business expectations for the year ahead fell to their lowest level since July 2021, with concerns over economic and political uncertainty cited for dampening sentiment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The domestic calendar looks relatively lean for the rest of the week, with October&#8217;s Foreign Reserves data due on Friday the main focus for further clues on the health of the local economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA&#8217;s benchmark 2035 government bond was flat in early deals, with the yield at 8.835%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12528,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14561","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA Rand inched up early on Wednesday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14561","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\/14561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19166,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14561\/revisions\/19166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}