The rand was weaker along with the emerging market peers on Wednesday, while the JSE was firmer amid mixed global markets as investors digested a weaker economic growth outlook.  

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) followed the World Bank in slashing its global growth forecast, by the most since the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and projected even faster inflation, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s renewed Covid-19 lockdowns...