Policymakers in South Africa upped the pace of tightening today, raising the repo rate by 50bp to 4.75%, as concerns about inflation (and inflation expectations in particular) have grown. We don’t think that the hawks will have their way for long though as the tightening cycle is likely to revert to a more gradual pace from the second half of this year.
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