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Zawya
19-02-2025
- Politics
- Zawya
South African parliament speaker says budget postponed
South Africa's National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza said the 2025 budget, which was meant to be tabled on Wednesday, had been postponed. Didiza told lawmakers that there was no agreement yet on the budget. (Reporting by Kopano Gumbi and Wendell Roelf in Cape Town, and Tannur Anders, Sfundo Parakozov and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo in Pretoria; Writing by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Alexander Winning)
Zawya
06-02-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Zimbabwe central bank keeps policy rate at 35%
Zimbabwe's central bank said on Thursday that its monetary policy rate had been kept unchanged at 35%. Spurred by food and housing prices, Zimbabwe's inflation rose sharply in January in both U.S. dollar and local currency terms. It launched a new gold-backed currency in April last year, but it was sharply devalued in September. Since the devaluation, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency has fallen further. It was trading around 26.4 per U.S. dollar on Thursday, according to the central bank's website. The ZiG was launched at about 13.6 to the dollar. (Reporting by Nyasha Chingono; Writing by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Alexander Winning)
Reuters
30-01-2025
- Business
- Reuters
南ア中銀、0.25％利下げ 貿易戦争の潜在的影響を議論
［プレトリア ３０日 ロイター］ - 南アフリカ準備銀行（ＳＡＲＢ、中央銀行）の金融政策委員会（ＭＰＣ）は３０日、政策金利のレポ金利 (ZAREPO=ECI), opens new tab を２５ベーシスポイント（ｂｐ）引き下げて７．５０％とした。３回連続の利下げとなる。不透明な世界情勢をにらみ、貿易戦争の潜在的影響についての議論に時間をかけた。 利下げは市場の予想通りだった。 委員会では４人が２５ｂｐの利下げを主張し、２人が据え置きを支持した。 同中銀は声明で「委員会は最終的に、政策の引き締め度合いを緩和し、スタンスをやや中立的にすることが可能だとの点で合意した。委員全員が不透明な世界経済の見通しを懸念していた」と述べた。 声明によると、委員会は、米国の関税が一律１０％ポイント引き上げられ、他国が報復措置を取るという貿易戦争のシナリオの検討に時間を費やした。 このシナリオでは、通貨ランドが１ドル＝２１ランド近くまで下落し、国内インフレ率が５％に達すると予測した。中銀の発表後、ランドは１ドル＝１８．４４ランド付近で取引されている。 ロイター調査によると、１９人のエコノミスト全員が２５ｂｐの利下げを予想していた。ただトランプ米政権の政策がどのように具体化するかを見守るため、今後の利下げは段階的になる可能性が高いとの見方が多い。 私たちの行動規範： 関連トピック 投資信託 Bhargav Acharya トムソン・ロイター Based in Johannesburg, Bhargav reports on breaking news across Sub-Saharan Africa. He has covered several high-profile stories on the continent, including former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius's parole and release and the BRICS summit. Previously he spent three and a half years in Bengaluru, India, as part of Reuters' Global News Monitoring team. He has a master's degree in International Studies. Tannur Anders トムソン・ロイター Tannur Anders, based in Johannesburg, is a Breaking News Correspondent covering Sub-Saharan Africa. She has covered Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed companies, the BRICs Summit of emerging economies and the South African central bank's interest rate decisions. Anders holds an undergraduate Politics, Philosophy and Economics degree and a post-graduate degree in Journalism and Media Studies. She is passionate about political-economic stories that highlight social issues. Her career highlight is interviewing the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
