{"id":14177,"date":"2026-08-21T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:56:57","slug":"rand-touches-r15-99-to-dollar-erasing-war-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14177","title":{"rendered":"Rand touches R15.99 to dollar, erasing war losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s rand strengthened below R16 per dollar, erasing its Iran war losses.<\/p>\n<p>The rand, often seen as a proxy for developing-nation assets, gained 0.8% to R15.99 per dollar at one stage on Friday as the greenback weakened to a three-month low after the US Treasury announced debt buybacks to push yields lower.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<br \/>Big Mac prices suggest rand is still too low<br \/>\u2060\u2019Surprisingly resilient\u2019 rand due to dollar mistrust \u2013 Kganyago<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s currency slumped to a four-month low in March as the Middle East conflict drove oil prices higher. It clawed back some losses before losing ground again in July after the South African Reserve Bank held back on raising interest rates in a surprise decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #Rand #touches #R15.99 #dollar #erasing #war #losses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s rand strengthened below R16 per dollar, erasing its Iran war losses. The rand,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2043,3451,1100,19854,1648,5816,684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}