Around half of the fall in the rand over the past month or so appears to have been due to global factors, while the other half has possibly been due to domestic factors such as labour unrest. With these problems unlikely to abate any time soon, we expect the currency to remain weak in the coming months, making interest rate cuts difficult.
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