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South Africa: Latest data suggests economy dodged recession

June’s manufacturing and mining figures support our view that the South African economy expanded by about 1.5% q/q (saar) in Q2, thus avoiding a technical recession. We still expect that the economy will stagnate over the course of 2016 as a whole.

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