The improvement in South Africa’s budget position and sharp fall in local currency bond yields mean less is at stake at next week’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) than there was at the Budget back in February. Fiscal policy settings will be largely unchanged but the Treasury may finally settle on a fiscal anchor and it seems increasingly likely the Reserve Bank’s inflation target will be formally lowered.
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