{"id":582974,"date":"2026-08-13T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582974\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:16:09","slug":"south-african-rand-holds-near-5-month-peak-after-us-inflation-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582974\/","title":{"rendered":"South African rand holds near 5-month peak after US inflation data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.cnbcafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2PLENK7UEVP6LHO27XU5VACMUU.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-605162\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/>South African Rand coins are seen in this illustration picture taken October 30, 2020. REUTERS\/Mike Hutchings\/Illustration\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOHANNESBURG, Aug 12 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The South African rand firmed on Wednesday, hovering near a five-month high as the dollar weakened after U.S. inflation data met expectations, reinforcing bets that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unchanged in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South African Rand coins are seen in this illustration picture taken October 30, 2020. REUTERS\/Mike Hutchings\/Illustration\/File Photo JOHANNESBURG,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,9517,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-582974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-south-africa","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}