Rand recovers as market sentiment improves
The hope that China and the US may resolve their differences during their meeting later in the week has improved market sentiment
The rand was much stronger on Monday morning, pulling further away from R15/$, which had ignited concerns of much higher inflation. The hope that China and the US may resolve their differences during their meeting later in the week has improved market sentiment. For the past week or so, the rand has been at the mercy of global risk-off trade, where investors sold emerging-market assets in particular, partly because of Turkish economic concerns. Foreigners were net sellers of local bonds to the value of just more than R10bn over the past week alone, according the JSE’s weekly data, which explains the recent sharp drop in the value of the rand. Foreign investors hold the biggest share of local debt at about 40%, making SA vulnerable to capital outflows in the global risk-off environment. "We believe that the [rand] weakness is somewhat overdone, but that global risk aversion will continue to drive volatility in the currency," said Kaon Capital CEO Luke Alers. Foreigners bailed out of ...
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