Economy heads closer to final nail in junk status coffin

15 September 2019 - 00:20 By HILARY JOFFE

Finance minister Tito Mboweni is expected to paint a bleak fiscal picture when he presents his medium-term budget late next month, making it likely that rating agency Moody's will put SA on alert for a downgrade to junk status when it reviews the rating in November...

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