Interest rates to fall this week?

The report quotes Ian Cruickshanks, head of strategic research at Nedbank Capital as saying the key rates in the domestic market were signalling a 65% chance of an interest rate cut by January next year.

According to Business Report, Brait economist Colen Garrow says that the Reserve Bank might even cut the rate later this week when in meets in Pretoria on Thursday. The repo rate is currently at 5,5%, its lowest level since October 1980 and down from its most recent peak of 12% in December 2008.

For more:

• Business Report: Experts split on interest rate cut

• SA Reserve Bank: South African Reserve Bank.