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South African rand starts week on back foot on China, Fed worries

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The South African rand was under pressure in early trade on Monday, hampered at the start of the week by worries over the health of China's economy and the potential for another U.S. interest rate hike.

At 0635 GMT, the rand was at 19.01 to the dollar , about 0.2% weaker than its closing level on Friday.

Rand Merchant Bank said in a morning briefing that the risks were for the rand to fall further, citing weak economic data out of China and no signs of stimulus, coupled with higher-than-expected core producer inflation in the U.S. and increased bets on another Federal Reserve rate hike in September. ETM Analytics played down the market-moving potential of this week's South African data releases, which include second-quarter unemployment data

 

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