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South Africa Consumer Prices (May)

Although South Africa’s headline inflation rate jumped to a multi-year high of 5.2% y/y last month, the weakness of core inflation and the recent tightening of lockdown measures means that the Reserve Bank is unlikely to shift towards monetary tightening in the coming months.

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