EconoView – March 2023
By Daniël Minnaar TRACTOR SALES Tractor sales, a good measure of market conditions and sentiment in the agricultural sector, started to decline in the first two months of this year.…
EconoView – January 2023
By Daniël Minnaar Inflation The annual inflation rate decreased slightly from 7,4% in November to 7,2% in December. The biggest contributor to this rate was once again food and non-alcoholic…
EconoView – October 2022
By Daniël MinnaarINFLATION: The annual consumer price inflation slowed down to 7,5% from 7,6% in August. After peaking at a 13-point high of 7,8% in July, the inflation rate seemed…
EconoView – September 2022
- Daniël Minnaar INTEREST RATE The Monetary Policy Committee announced last week (22 September) that the repo rate (the rate at which the Reserve Bank lends money to commercial banks)…