{"id":35692,"date":"2013-01-24T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=35692"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:50:47","slug":"south-africa-holds-rate-inflation-risks-limits-rate-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/01\/24\/south-africa-holds-rate-inflation-risks-limits-rate-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa holds rate, inflation risks limits rate cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; South Africa&#8217;s central bank held its benchmark repurchase rate steady at 5.0 percent and said a deterioration in the outlook for inflation had limited the bank&#8217;s ability to ease its policy.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), which cut rates by 50 basis points in 2012, said its current policy stance was &#8220;accommodative and appropriate&#8221; with the real policy rate slightly negative, notwithstanding the temporary breach of the inflation target.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;However, further accommodation at this stage is constrained by the upside risks to the inflation outlook,&#8221; the bank said in a statement, quoting its governor Gill Marcus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; South Africa&#8217;s central bank held its benchmark repurchase rate steady at 5.0 percent and said a deterioration in the outlook for inflation had limited the bank&#8217;s ability to ease its policy.&nbsp; &nbsp; The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), which cut rates by 50 basis points in 2012, said its current policy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/01\/24\/south-africa-holds-rate-inflation-risks-limits-rate-cuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Africa holds rate, inflation risks limits rate cuts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}