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South Africa Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement

The South Africa Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement is the South African Reserve Bank's statement or report explaining its policy decision, often with its own forecasts for growth, inflation and interest rates.

Importance
Low
Devise
ZAR · South African rand
Banque centrale
The South African Reserve Bank
Influence
EURZAR · USDZAR

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Pourquoi c’est important

The words and the forecasts tell markets where the repo rate is likely to go next. A central bank that raises its inflation forecasts or signals more hikes (the Fed's "dot plot" of rate projections, for example) can move the South African rand and bond yields more than the decision itself.

Mode de calcul

There is no single figure; the report contains the committee's projections (often the median of its members' views) and its assessment of the economy.

Ce que signifient les variations

  • Compare the new projections with the previous ones: the revision is the news.
  • Changes of a few words in the statement are often deliberate signals.

Supérieur aux attentes : Higher inflation or rate projections than expected tend to lift the South African rand and bond yields.

Inférieur aux attentes : Lower projections than expected tend to weaken the South African rand and lower bond yields.

Un bref historique

Central banks began to publish forecasts and statements as part of inflation targeting from the 1990s (the Bank of England's Inflation Report from 1993); the Fed's dot plot started in 2012.

Questions

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The South Africa Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement is the South African Reserve Bank's statement or report explaining its policy decision, often with its own forecasts for growth, inflation and interest rates.

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