HILARY JOFFE: IMF move yields the conditioned response - but it may wear off
02 August 2020 - 00:03
When the government had a highly successful $5bn (R82bn) international bond issue in September last year, taking advantage of favourable market conditions to borrow even more dollars than initially planned, nobody said a word on Twitter. When it borrowed $4.2bn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week, the twitterati went wild. The responses came in at least three varieties...
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