Research assesses South Africa’s vulnerability to Fed hike

Countries with large ratios of external financing needs to FX could be more vulnerable

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South Africa had not "significantly" boosted its resilience to rising interest rates in the United States in early 2015 compared with early 2013 during the so-called "taper tantrum", according to a working paper published by the South African Reserve Bank.

Vulnerability to Normalization of Global Financing Conditions: An Operational Approach, by Shakill Hassan, Merrisa Paul and Siobhan Redford, constructs "two simple indicators of external vulnerability" and compares findings for 2013 and 2015

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