{"id":288346,"date":"2018-11-30T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T09:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=288346"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T09:44:42","slug":"rand-among-most-heavily-traded-currencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/288346\/rand-among-most-heavily-traded-currencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand among most-heavily traded currencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The rand\u2019s wild swings whenever there is good or bad news elsewhere in the developing world is due to its status as a proxy for emerging markets, rather than to domestic factors, said Francois Groepe, a deputy governor at the South African Reserve Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The South African currency is about the 16th most-heavily traded currency globally, while the economy ranks at about 32nd or 33rd, Groepe told editors at a lunch in Johannesburg yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Spot turnover in the rand is equivalent to about $4 billion daily, while total turnover is as high as $17 billion, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is little doubt that the rand is a proxy because why would you have such a difference in the turnover of the currency relative to the size of the economy?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Often the currency moves in tandem with what\u2019s happening to other EMs.<\/p>\n<p>The volatility of the rand, due in part to the liquidity of South Africa\u2019s comparatively deep financial markets, makes forward planning difficult for businesses who pay their costs or derive their revenue in foreign currency. It also bedevils policy making as it is a significant inflation risk, according to the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>The currency\u2019s one-month realized volatility versus the dollar climbed as high as 26 percent during Turkey\u2019s currency crisis in September, third only to that country\u2019s lira and the Argentinian peso, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Price swings have since dropped to 15.8 percent, still the third-highest among emerging-market peers.<\/p>\n<p>The South African currency is heading for its best performance in November in 30 years, having gained 8.2 percent against the dollar. Still, it\u2019s 9.4% down so far this year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/288098\/heres-what-will-likely-happen-to-the-rand-in-2019-according-to-the-reserve-bank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s what will happen to the rand in 2019, according to the Reserve Bank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rand\u2019s wild swings whenever there is good or bad news elsewhere in the developing world is due to its status as a proxy for emerging markets, rather than to domestic factors, said Francois Groepe, a deputy governor at the South African Reserve Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":269329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-288346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288346","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288362,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288346\/revisions\/288362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}