{"id":78608,"date":"2015-01-29T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=78608"},"modified":"2015-01-29T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:42:08","slug":"sa-reserve-bank-keeps-repo-rate-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/78608\/sa-reserve-bank-keeps-repo-rate-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Reserve Bank keeps repo rate unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP1\">The repo rate will remain unchanged at 5.75%, the SA Reserve Bank&#8217;s monetary policy committee decided on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The domestic economic outlook remained subdued, Sarb governor Lesetja Kganyago said in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">He said that the rand has been affected by domestic factors including the rolling power blackouts by Eskom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">In September, the repo rate remained unchanged at 5.75%, after it was increased by 25 basis points in July from 5.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">In March and May the repo rate remained unchanged, after it was increased by 50 basis points from five percent in January.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"BodyP\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"SA repo rate unchanged\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/74052\/sa-repo-rate-unchanged\/\"><strong>SA repo rate unchanged<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The repo rate will remain unchanged at 5.75%, the SA Reserve Bank&#8217;s monetary policy committee decided on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,2760],"class_list":["post-78608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-sa-reserve-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78610,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608\/revisions\/78610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}