{"id":16054,"date":"2025-11-25T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-steady-ahead-of-key-indicator-data\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:23","slug":"rand-steady-ahead-of-key-indicator-data","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-steady-ahead-of-key-indicator-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand steady ahead of key indicator data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South African (SA) Rand held steady in early trade on Tuesday, ahead of local central bank data that will likely offer insights on the country&#8217;s economic outlook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Rand traded at 17.2875 against the Dollar, almost unchanged from its closing level on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SA Reserve Bank is set to publish September&#8217;s leading business cycle indicator, which tracks metrics on vehicle sales, business confidence, money supply and other key factors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The data will help domestically focussed investors gauge the health of Africa&#8217;s most industrialised economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Other economic releases for this week include producer inflation figures, due on Thursday, and credit, trade and budget on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SA&#8217;s benchmark 2035 government bond was flat in early deals, with the yield at 8.635%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13933,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-16054","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA Rand held steady in early trade on Tuesday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16054","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\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20028,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16054\/revisions\/20028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}