Today’s decision in South Africa to raise the benchmark rate by 75bp, to 7.00%, signalled that policymakers remain in inflation-fighting mode and the tightening cycle has further to run. That said, the balance on the MPC appears to be shifting towards less aggressive rate hikes.
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