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Rand hits fresh low on US jobs data

Reuters

Johannesburg - The rand fell 2.2% to a fresh three-year low against the dollar on Friday after below-consensus US jobs data pointed to a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.

The rand briefly touched R8.71 to the dollar, its weakest since May 2009, before coming back slightly to R8.6670 by 12:36 GMT.

Analysts say the currency may fall as far as R8.80 in the short term.

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Currencies Commodities Jse Indexes

Rand - Dollar

19.04

-0.3%

Rand - Pound

23.66

-0.2%

Rand - Euro

20.21

-0.3%

Rand - Aus dollar

12.19

+0.3%

Rand - Yen

0.12

-0.0%

Platinum

970.80

-0.5%

Palladium

1,021.50

-0.2%

Gold

2,385.62

+0.1%

Silver

28.16

-2.5%

Brent Crude

90.10

-0.4%

Top 40

66,902

-2.2%

All Share

73,000

-2.1%

Resource 10

61,638

-3.6%

Industrial 25

98,321

-1.9%

Financial 15

15,650

-1.1%

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