Policymakers in South Africa kept their benchmark rate unchanged at 3.50% today, breaking a recent wave of EM central bank decisions to tighten policy. We suspect that the country’s weak economic recovery and subdued inflation means that policy will stay looser for longer than most currently expect.
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