South Africa’s Central Bank Leaves Key Rate at 6.5%
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South Africa’s Reserve Bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a second meeting as consumer spending recovered from last year’s recession and wage costs surged.
The repurchase rate was left at 6.5 percent, Governor Gill Marcus said in Pretoria today. That was in line with the forecast of 18 of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.