Tag: Interest rates

Independent economist, Elise Kruger, says the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee is likely to keep interest rates unchanged when it ...

South Africa will overshoot its budget deficit target this year due to higher spending on public wages and an expected ...

Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the repo rate will remain unchanged at 8,25%, meaning that the prime ...

Consumers can breathe a sigh of relief as the Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) eases from 6.3% in May to 5.4% ...

Analysts anticipate inflation to have reverted to the Reserve Bank's target range of 3 to 6% after rising persistently for ...

The latest retail trade figures show that consumers are under financial stress as a result of rising inflation and interest ...

As the country waits for the Reserve Bank to announce the next interest rate hike Thursday afternoon, middle-class South Africans ...

Economist Azar Jammine is among his counterparts that have predicted that the Reserve Bank will raise interest rates by at ...

Economists are concerned about the Reserve Bank's latest growth projections. This follows the bank's prediction that the economy will grow ...

Chief economist at Econometrix Azar Jammine says these are the toughest economic times that consumers have dealt with since the ...

US consumer sentiment slumped in November amid persistent worries about inflation and higher interest rates, according to a survey on ...

Last month's decrease in the fuel price helped ease inflation slightly in September. Data from Statistics SA shows that annual consumer ...

Nigeria and Kenya are likely to hike interest rates by a modest 50 basis points in the coming days after ...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)'s decision to hike interest rates ...

The Reserve Bank's Deputy Governor, Kuben Naidoo, says they are dealing with a drastically changing economic environment.

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is announcing the outcome of its monetary policy committee meeting on Thursday.

Economists say it is highly likely that the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee will increase interest rates on the back ...

The rand continues to trade at its weakest level since January this year at R 15, 63 to the dollar.

Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago says the country's economic growth rate has now been revised down to 5.2% from 5.3% ...

Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago says lowering the inflation target point could benefit the country's economy by keeping interest rates ...