I initially predicted a 17% decline on JSE TOP40, the move is well in motion. See link below South Africa has had one of the worse lockdowns in response to covid19 and it resulted in a reported decline of 51% in GDP. The unemployment numbers and number of business bankrupted are not yet publicly available. South Africa also increased its USD debt during this...
We are reaching the lows in the range right on time for SARB today. Markets are expecting a 50bps move, a little bird tells me that we are set for more... Remember the domestic story in South Africa is only going one way; sadly it's the same outcome as Turkey. On the technical side, tracking closely the 18.00 support to build longs outguessing a dovish...
Here tracking for a very technical pullback after a test of last week's open. Positioning is incredible stretched meaning the tree can be shaken at any minute, I want to get long USDZAR but reluctant to chase anything at these levels. Tracking a pullback into the 14.7x jurisdictions before doing anymore business here. A similar move for those tracking USDTRY: ...