{"id":22624,"date":"2012-09-20T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=22624"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:33:51","slug":"repo-rate-remains-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/22624\/repo-rate-remains-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Repo rate remains unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Reserve Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3053-SARB-South-African-Reserve-Bank\">Reserve Bank<\/a>\u2019s monetary policy committee (MPC) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.0% after its three day meeting in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>Consensus was for rates to be kept on hold by a survey of leading economists by <a title=\"I-Net Bridge\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/4980-I-Net-Bridge\">I-Net Bridge<\/a>. Of the 12 economists polled\u201a only two had expected a 50 basis point rate cut.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Bank Governor <a title=\"Gill Marcus\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3054-Gill-Marcus\">Gill Marcus<\/a> said the current accommodative monetary policy stance was supportive.<\/p>\n<p>She noted\u201a however\u201a that risks to economic growth were on the downside\u201a while the low point of inflation was believed to have already been reached.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/21477\/sarb-unveils-new-mandela-bank-notes\/\"><strong>SARB unveils new Mandela bank notes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/18297\/sa-gets-interest-rate-cut\/\"><strong>SA gets interest rate cut (July 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/13516\/interest-rates-remain-unchanged\/\"><strong>Interest rates remain unchanged (May 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reserve Bank\u2019s monetary policy committee (MPC) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.0% after its three day meeting in Pretoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,4180,3619,4043],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-repo-rate","tag-sarb","tag-south-african-reserve-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22630,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions\/22630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}