South African government bondterm structureThis article uses the parsimonious dynamic Nelson–Siegel model to fit the yields of South African government bonds. We find that the dynamic Nelson–Siegel model has good fitting abilities for all maturities. We further forecast the term structure by seven ...
South Africa Government Debt to GDP Generally, Government debt as a percent of GDP is used by investors to measure a country ability to make future payments on its debt, thus affecting the country borrowing costs and government bond yields. Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency ...
SOUTH AFRICAN MARKETS South Africa’s rand jumped on Monday, as markets welcomed rating agency S&P’s decision to raise the country’s credit rating outlook. On the stock market, the Top-40 index closed 0.6% up. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks rose on Tuesday while U.S. bond yields and the ...
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Many analysts expect a rate-cutting cycle by the South African central bank to be over, but there is still a slim chance of further rate cuts in the remainder of the year if inflation pressures remain contained. At 0632 GMT, the rand traded at 16.9250 versus the dollar, 0.3% weaker ...
Since the advent of democracy, the South African government has been putting charters, policies, strategies and plans in place in an effort to strengthen public health system performance and enhance service delivery. However, public health programme performance and outcomes remained poor while the burd...
Food insecurity and environmental degradation pose significant threats to health outcomes in South Asia, necessitating effective policy interventions. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of food insecurity and environmental degradation on he
The impact of sovereign credit rating changes on government bond yields in South Africa This study applies an event study analysis on Standard % Poor's (S%P), Fitch and Moody's sovereign credit ratings for South Africa over the period 2007 to ... M Mutize,MBM Nkhalamba - 《International...
In an empirical sense, panel data regression yields consistent estimates. It allows for the mitigation of unobserved individual heterogeneity and omitted variable bias94. A general form of the linear panel model is given below: $$Y_{it} = \alpha_{i} + X_{it}^{\prime } \beta + \vareps...
South African, rather than US reasons. Of further encouragement is that the risks foreign investors attach to their SA assets have also narrowed. These sovereign or country risks are best measured by the spread between the yields on a RSA dollar denominated bond and those offered by a US ...