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May 10, 2021 · The South African Rand is at its strongest rate in over a year, as the latest media reports suggest. Trading at R14,05 to the United States dollar, the rand is also strengthening due to a higher yield on South African government bonds, according to the SABC. Looking at other currencies, the rand is at R19.74 compared to the United Kingdom’s ...
May 22, 2024 · As of May 16, 2024, the rand has made incremental gains, reaching R18.23/USD. This increase is partly due to a reduced risk premium in South Africa’s currency and bond yields as the likelihood ...
Mar 7, 2016 · While currencies in countries like Mexico and the Czech Republic trade within the same range as the rand – at 1.1 and 1.6 times the currency’s value – in South Korea and Colombia, a single ...
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- The Bottom Line
The South African rand is the official currency of the Southern African Common Monetary Area, issued by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). The rand is used in South Africa and in Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini alongside their local currencies, which are pegged to the rand. The rand was introduced in 1961, ahead of South Africa becoming a republi...
The rand started 2022 at 15.40 against the US dollar, and strengthened to 14.61 at the start of March. But the gains were short-lived, and the rand began to trend lower, reaching 15.81 on 1 April. It climbed above 16.00 in May. The USD/ZAR pair passed the 17.00 mark in July and reached 18.40 on 24 October, its highest level since April 2020. The pa...
USD/ZAR forecast
In their latest South African rand forecast, CIBC’s analysts were cautious, expecting the currency to move back to 18 against the US dollar by the end of 2022, noting: “The presumption of significant additional tightening continues to weigh on growth assumptions and drag on broad investor sentiment. A prolonged period of above average inflation and slow growth, additionally the current account is expected to slip back into deficit territory into 2023, underlines why speculative ZAR holdings h...
EUR/ZAR forecast
At the time of writing (8 November), analysts saw the potential for the rand to strengthen against the euro over the long term, following potential short-term weakness. MUFG’s South African rand forecast for 2023 showed the EUR/ZAR pair rising to 18.12 in the first quarter, from 17.67 at the end of 2022, but then retreating to 17.75 by the third quarter. The EUR/ZAR forecast from Denmark’s Danske Bankindicated that the pair could decline from the current spot rate around 17.77 to 16.50 in one...
GBP/ZAR forecast
Similarly, Danske’s GBP/ZAR forecast estimated that the rand could gradually strengthen over the next year, with the pair falling from 20.45 at the time of writing (8 November) to 18.74 in one month, 18.34 in three months, 18.56 in six months and 18.38 in 12 months. But for the longer term, the British pound to South African rand forecast for 2025 from algorithm-based forecasting service Wallet Investorshowed the pair rising to 20.714, from 20.231 at the end of 2023 and 19.976 at the end of 2...
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Mar 8, 2024 · JOHANNESBURG, March 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand was trading at its strongest level in over a month on Friday, after a week of gains supported by surging gold prices. At 1505 GMT, the rand ...
Mar 16, 2020 · The rand (ISO code ZAR) was created in 1961, when South Africa was granted its independence from the U.K. It is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area among South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Namibia, although those three countries also have their own currencies. The nominally independent Bantustans of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and ...
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Mar 16, 2020 · The rand (ISO code ZAR) was created in 1961, when South Africa was granted its independence from the U.K. It is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area among South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Namibia, although those three countries also have their own currencies. The nominally independent Bantustans of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and ...
