The South African Reserve Bank cut its main repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.25% on Thursday, as tensions with the U.S. continue amid ongoing global uncertainty.

JOHANNESBURG—The South African Reserve Bank on Thursday maintained its main repo rate at 8.25% in an effort to keep inflation in check amid general uncertainty at home and abroad.

All but two of 22 economists surveyed in the past week said the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) would cut rates by 25 basis points (bps) to 7.75% at its Nov. 21 meeting.

“We recently wrote that the Sarb would likely drop the inflation target in the third quarter” to 3% – with a possible 1% plus ...

South Africa's Reserve Bank is expected to cut interest rates for the first time in more than two years - by 25 basis points to 8.00% - on Sept. 19, according to a Reuters poll of economists who ...

Treasury has not specified which projects the World Bank loan will fund, but says the financing plan includes an interest grace period.

With the surge in natural disasters in the last decade, the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Lesetja Kganyago, has called on leaders in the Group of Twenty (G20) to bridge the gap in ...

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The South African Reserve Bank has constructed a new inflation measure to monitor underlying price developments that will help support monetary policy decision making.. Supercore inflation is made ...