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Tito unhappy with Investec

Below is part of an article out of business report on comments made by the Governor of the reserve bank regarding the report by Investec that inflation figures, as reported by StatsSA are incorrect. Johannesburg – Tito Mboweni, the central bank governor, criticised Investec Asset Management yesterday for questioning the country’s inflation data, saying the…

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I hate to say I told you so….

As predicted in my post of 23rd May, the governor of the reserve bank once again increased the repo rate by 50 basis points. I may only be an amateur at this, but all of the analysts had predicted a full point increase. I think that the Governor only increased by 50 basis points as…

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