The South African rand has rallied over the past few days after reaching its lowest level against the US dollar in more than a year following last week’s news about the Omicron variant. Even if the new variant doesn’t lead to a major round of renewed virus containment measures, we think that the currency will remain under pressure from both domestic and external headwinds for much of 2022.
In view of the wider interest, we are also sending this FX Markets Update to clients of our Africa Economics Service
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