The South African rand gained in early trade on October 29 ahead of the Federal Reserve's rate decision and a Trump-Xi meeting. The rand traded at 17.1350 per dollar, up about 0.1% from the previous close.
Expectations of Fed easing weakened the dollar, which supports emerging market currencies and modestly eases the rand cost of imported feed inputs.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 1,637 past bearish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.3%), and -0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.