South Africa’s Reserve Bank will welcome last month’s soft inflation outturn of 3.1% y/y but adjustments to administered fuel prices will cause inflation to jump in April. Even so, the headline rate should remain close to the SARB’s target and, so long as the war ends and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz normalises soon, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to need to turn to rate hikes.
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