Tuesday, 08 May 2007

S.Africa finmin says hasn't been major rand firming

(Reuters) - South Africa's rand currency has not recorded a major strengthening and has moved due to a weakness in the U.S. dollar, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday.

"In real effective relative terms there hasn't been a major strengthening of the rand to the dollar," Manuel said at the sidelines of a signing of a tax agreement with Switzerland.


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