Monday, 29 April 2013

Rand shows no clear signs of directional momentum

Trade report 29/04/2013

Gold and Platinum prices are both presenting a marginally firmer bias and aren’t showing reason as to why the ZAR should weaken significantly during the course of the week. The USD-ZAR is expected to trade at 9.05-9.1500 today.

The Department of Energy’s Central Energy Fund announced on Friday that the retail price of petrol will go down with 73c/l and sulphur diesel will go down with 56c/l from Wednesday May 1. The lower basic fuel price for petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin has been help by a better Rand Dollar exchange rate. 

By the end of 2012 the Netherlands and Luxembourg had booked foreign direct investment (FDI) of $5.8tn. This is more than the UK, US and Germany combined and is sure to fuel controversy over aggressive corporate tax policies. 

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