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A Fed with votes for a hike, a rout in big tech and a gold price in freefall.
And the Rand? It sat on its hands until last Friday afternoon, then slipped to R16.71/$, 10 cents weaker on the week.
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An extra R54 billion in last Wednesday's budget had the Rand at R16.34 by that evening...
...and two days later? The Gulf war had reached Saudi oil, and the Rand had handed the lot back at R16.59/$.
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Hot US inflation knocked the Rand almost 19 cents last Wednesday afternoon...
...and by Friday lunchtime it had won the lot back. It closed the week at R16.48/$, less than a cent from where it started.
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Hormuz headlines all last week, talk of more strikes on Iran, petrol through R30 a litre in SA...
...and the Rand still finished 20 cents stronger, at R16.51/$ – its best week since early September.
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US jobs missed by a mile last Friday: 29,000 against around 85,000 expected.
The Rand's relief lasted barely two hours.
It closed the week at R16.65/$, 29 cents weaker against the greenback – its worst week since late July.
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The SARB hiked last Wednesday, on a softer inflation figure.
The Rand lost 23 cents the same day.
The hike was priced in well before it came – by the time it landed, there was no-one left to buy Rand.
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The Fed hiked last Wednesday and the Rand lost 16 cents in an hour.
By Thursday afternoon it had taken all of it back – closing a fraction better than it had before the Fed said a word.
The move was already in the price.
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SA's economy shrank last Tuesday and the Rand closed flat. US inflation came in hot on Friday and the Rand got stronger.
All the damage came in one Thursday afternoon.
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Everything went wrong last week. Except the Rand.
An oil shock, a R3 fuel hike, our worst factory data of 2026, and a US jobs number three times consensus.
The Rand gained 23 cents and closed below R16 – its first weekly close there since February.
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Rand closed below R16/$ last week – first time since March.
No SA release put it there. A US Treasury buyback on Wednesday took 9.6c off USD/ZAR inside the hour.
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The quietest week of 2026 – 10.4c a day, the lowest average daily range of the year.
The Rand had a falling dollar in front of it all week and could not take a cent off it.
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SA published no data at all last week. The Rand still gained 2.1% on the dollar — and 2.0% on the euro and the pound.
The dollar index? Flat.
That's not borrowed strength.
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Three central banks held in three days and the Rand picked up 19 cents. None of it made in South Africa – a weak US growth print and a six-week dollar low did it.
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Last week the market was sure the SA Reserve Bank would hike to defend the Rand. It held instead – and the Rand became the world's worst performer of the day, down 40+ cents in one afternoon, closing at R16.84. Full breakdown 👇 forexforecasts.co.za/rand-re…
Last week the Rand got a gift: soft US inflation floored the dollar and it firmed to R16.29. Then it gave the lot back, closing R16.48, its weakest in a month. When a currency can't hold a falling dollar, the problem is closer to home. forexforecasts.co.za/rand-re…
Two Washington scares last week — a Gulf war flare-up and a US tariff hearing on SA. The Rand gave back just 8c: its tightest range of 2026. The 30% tariff everyone dreads? Struck down in Feb; SA's at 10% now 👇
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📉 One US jobs number cracked the dollar last week — the Rand took back 21c (R16.46→R16.24). +57k jobs vs 110k expected. Most of the move landed in one Thursday afternoon. forexforecasts.co.za/rand-re…

















