{"id":44827,"date":"2026-09-07T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44827"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:01:26","slug":"rand-subdued-ahead-of-key-economic-releases-this-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-subdued-ahead-of-key-economic-releases-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand subdued ahead of key economic releases this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African (SA) Rand was subdued in early trade on Monday, \u200bas investors awaited a raft of \u200ceconomic data this week, including gross domestic product, current account, mining and manufacturing figures, for \u200bclues on the health of the \u200beconomy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Rand traded \u2060at 15.9675 against the Dollar, little \u200bchanged from its previous close, with the \u200bmarket largely shrugging off reserves data.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA&#8217;s net foreign reserves rose to $73.69 billion at the end of \u200bAugust from $71.76 billion in July, central \u200bbank data showed on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Focus will now turn to \u200csecond-quarter Gross Domestic Product data on Tuesday, followed by current account, mining and manufacturing figures on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The greenback last traded flat against \u200ba basket \u200bof \u2060currencies despite a ramp-up in United States rate-hike bets, as tension in the Middle \u200bEast heightened inflation risks that \u200bcould \u2060force global central banks to tighten policy in tandem.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA&#8217;s benchmark 2035 government bond \u2060weakened \u200bslightly in early deals, \u200bas the yield rose 1 basis point to 8.53%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14374,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-44827","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA Rand was subdued in early trade on Monday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44827","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\/44827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44828,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44827\/revisions\/44828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}