{"id":35437,"date":"2026-05-26T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35437"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:30:29","slug":"sas-marchs-bci-shows-increase-of-2-4","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-marchs-bci-shows-increase-of-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s March\u2019s BCI shows increase of 2.4 %"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Africa&#8217;s (SA) local economy has shown signs of improvement in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This is shown in the composite leading business cycle indicator (BCI) for March.<\/p>\n<p>The SA Reserve Bank released the March BCI showing a 2.4 % increase in that month on a month-on-month basis.<\/p>\n<p>The leading business cycle indicator provides early signals of the direction in which real economic activity is moving, in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Increases in six of the seven available component time series outweighed the decrease in the composite leading business cycle indicator for the country\u2019s major trading-partner countries.<\/p>\n<p>The largest positive contributors were an acceleration in the six-month smoothed growth rate in the real M1 money supply and a widening of the interest rate spread.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34948,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-35437","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This is shown in the composite leading business cycle indicator (BCI) for March.","published_date":"","news_description":"This is shown in the composite leading business cycle indicator (BCI) for March.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35437","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\/35437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35438,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35437\/revisions\/35438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}