WATCH | Explainer: Why the Reserve Bank's interest rate decision matters

28 March 2019 - 08:03 By Staff Writer
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With the Reserve Bank due to make its interest rate announcement on Thursday, Business Times reporter Mudiwa Gavaza tells us why it is important and what to expect.

With growth in a rather precarious position in light of recent weeks' loadshedding, and inflation at its most recent reading sitting at 4.1% - below the mid-point of the range - some commentators have raised the spectre of a surprise cut this week by the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee as it meets for the second time this year.

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