Current Market Rates

Money Market Rates Click here for information
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Repo rate 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00
Marginal lending rate 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00
SAONIA + 6.778 6.839 6.835 6.750 6.750
SAONIA 6.223 6.489 6.562 6.471 6.471
Forex forwards 6.712 6.750 6.746 6.760 6.760
Carry rate 6.727 6.796 6.756 6.748 6.748
Bankers' acceptance - 3 months 6.83 6.83 6.83 6.82 6.82
Treasury bills - 91 day (tender rates) 6.75 6.75 6.75 6.75 6.75
Treasury bills - 182 day (tender rates) 6.67 6.67 6.67 6.68 6.68
PN's - 3 months (closing rates)(4) 6.95 6.95 6.95 6.95 6.95
PN's - 6 months (closing rates)(4) 6.96 6.96 6.98 6.99 6.99
PN's - 12 months (closing rates)(4) 7.07 7.07 7.11 7.12 7.14
Prime overdraft rate (predominant rate) 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50

Capital Market Rates Click here for information
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10% 2008 (R194) (closing yieds) 7.49 7.96 7.61 7.56 7.60
13.0 % 2010 (R 153) (closing yields) 7.88 7.96 8.00 7.95 7.98
3-5 years (daily average bond yields)(1) 7.47 7.52 7.59 7.58 7.60
5-10 years (daily average bond yields)(1) 7.89 7.93 7.97 7.98 7.98
10 years and longer (daily average bond yields)(1) 8.38 8.42 8.47 8.47 8.46

Exchange rates Click here for information
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Nominal effective exchange rate(2) 92.24 92.08 91.90 91.18 91.24 90.01
Rand per US Dollar(3) R6.1857 R6.1737 R6.2300 R6.3059 R6.3376 R6.4166
Rand per British Pound(3) R11.6149 R11.6534 R11.6255 R11.7416 R11.6697 R11.7941
Rand per Euro(3) R7.9316 R7.9517 R7.9523 R7.9940 R7.9914 R8.1045
Rand per Japanese Yen(3) R0.0584 R0.0587 R0.0587 R0.0590 R0.0588 R0.0599

London gold price per fine ounce (average of the day's am and pm price fixings) Click here for information
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US Dollar $427.15 $427.23 $425.25 $420.73 $419.58
Rand R2628.62 R2637.19 R2656.15 R2627.89 R2648.83

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Footnotes
1) Source: Bond Exchange of South Africa
2) The weighted average exchange rate of the rand is based on trade between South Africa and its thirteen most important trading partners. Index: 2000=100. (See Article in September 1999 Quarterly Bulletin for various weights)
3) Weighted average of the banks' daily rates at approximately 10:30am.
4) From 26 June 2003 the rate reflected related to promissory notes (instead of negotiable certificates of deposits)