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The rand jumped about 1.8% to 17.71 per dollar after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signalled an interest rate cut next month. The move followed his dovish remarks.
Expectations of Fed easing weaken the dollar, which lowers the rand cost of dollar-denominated feed imports and supports emerging-market currencies.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 1,637 past bearish macro events, DXY 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.