{"id":49711,"date":"2026-11-02T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49711"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:18:00","slug":"rand-broadly-steady-before-manufacturing-survey-car-sales-data","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rand-broadly-steady-before-manufacturing-survey-car-sales-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand broadly steady before manufacturing survey, car sales data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African (SA) Rand was little changed in early trade \u200bon Monday ahead of the release \u200cof a local manufacturing Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index (PMI) and vehicle sales data for October.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The traded at \u200b16.6965 against the Dollar, a whisker \u2060away from its previous close.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An Absa \u200bPMI survey is set to be \u200breleased and will shed light on manufacturing conditions in Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA manufacturing sentiment improved in September after \u200bthree months of contraction, helped by a rebound \u200cin \u2060new orders.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Vehicle sales is due, giving a snapshot of consumer demand for big-ticket items.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nedbank \u200beconomists said \u200bin a \u2060research note that they expect car sales growth to \u200bhave moderated to 11.2% from \u200b12.7% \u2060in September, reflecting the rise in fuel prices and interest rates.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA&#8217;s benchmark \u20602035 \u200bgovernment bond was flat \u200bin early deals, with the yield at 8.59%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13933,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49711","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA Rand was little changed in early trade \u200bon Monday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49711","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49713,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49711\/revisions\/49713"}],"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=49711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}