Central Bank Watch
100-Basis Point Cut in South Africa’s Central Bank Policy Rate
April 14, 2020
Officials at the South African Reserve Bank unanimously authorized the second full percentage point reduction of their key interest rate in the past four weeks. The rate, which had crested at 6.75% after 175 basis points of tightening in 2018, was lowered to 4.25%. The latest 100-basis point reduction was twice as much as analysts […] More
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Easter Break Over but Covid-19 Pandemic Continues to Dominate Financial Market News
April 14, 2020
Having made the three biggest mistakes in handling the pandemic, the United States has now taken the global lead in both number of cases (30.3% of the worldwide total) and deaths (23,644 or 19.6% of the total). The mistakes were 1) being late to socially distance people, 2) deficient testing to identify asymptomatic carriers of […] More
