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The rand strengthened almost 2% to 13.31 per dollar on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's congressional testimony weakened the dollar against a basket of currencies. The move reversed part of the rand's earlier losses.
The dollar's decline was broad across major currencies.
A stronger rand lowers the local cost of imported feed ingredients, while a weaker dollar generally supports dollar-priced commodities. Yellen's comments on the Fed's rate path are the main driver.
moneyweb.co.zaReutersJul 12, 2017Not 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.
