{"id":46126,"date":"2026-09-22T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46126"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:55:16","slug":"rand-subdued-as-investors-eye-us-iran-talks-domestic-events","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-subdued-as-investors-eye-us-iran-talks-domestic-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand subdued as investors eye US, Iran talks, domestic events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African (SA) Rand was subdued in early trade on Tuesday as investors awaited \u200bpotential United States (US) Iran talks and key domestic data and \u200cevents later this week, including inflation figures and the central bank&#8217;s policy decision.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Rand traded \u200bat 16.2825 against the Dollar, 0.2% weaker than \u200bits previous close.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tehran and Washington exchanged threats on \u2060Sunday, though US President Donald Trump said he would \u200bbe open to meeting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who \u200bis expected to be in New York this week for the United Nations meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Traders are focused on August inflation data and \u200bthe SA Reserve Bank&#8217;s policy decision, both \u200bdue on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Economists polled by Reuters expect annual inflation to accelerate \u200cto \u20604.5%, while the central bank is widely expected to deliver a 25-basis-point rate hike after leaving rates unchanged at its previous meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Separately, SA&#8217;s central \u200bbank said \u200bon Tuesday \u2060that its composite leading business cycle indicator fell 0.9% month on month in July.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Like other risk-sensitive \u200bcurrencies, the rand often takes cues \u200bfrom global \u2060developments, in addition to domestic economic data.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Top-40 index was down 0.3% \u2060in \u200bearly trade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA&#8217;s benchmark 2035 \u200bgovernment bond was also weaker in early deals, as the yield \u200brose 2 basis points to 8.65%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34578,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-46126","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 Tuesday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46126","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\/46126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46127,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46126\/revisions\/46127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}