{"id":1874,"date":"2023-05-11T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2023-05-11T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:34:11","slug":"simeka-investment-notes-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/2023\/05\/11\/simeka-investment-notes-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeka &#8211; Investment Notes March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How long does it take to bring inflation down?<\/h2>\n<p>The expectation of lower inflation is a central theme in the economic outlook for 2023, as interest rates have been raised sharply worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation in the US \u2013 the world\u2019s bellwether economy \u2013 peaked at 8.9% in June 2022 and was already down to 5.0% by March 2023. A different paradigm prevails in South Africa though, as inflation remains elevated at 7.1% in March 2023 after peaking at 7.8% in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Simeka\u2019s Marcus Rautenbach comments on the nature of South Africa\u2019s current experience of inflation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/files\/2023\/05\/simeka-investment-notes-3-2023.pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long does it take to bring inflation down? The expectation of lower inflation is a central theme in the economic outlook for 2023, as interest rates have been raised sharply worldwide. Inflation in the US \u2013 the world\u2019s bellwether economy \u2013 peaked at 8.9% in June 2022 and was already down to 5.0% by [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11016,"featured_media":1837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3256],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surf.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}