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The rand held near three-month lows after the South African Reserve Bank pushed back its expected timing of the first post-crisis rate hike to the fourth quarter. Investec and Goldman Sachs see lift-off delayed to 2022 at the earliest.
Delayed rate hikes keep the rand under pressure, which raises the local-currency cost of imported feed inputs for South African buyers.
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