PODCAST What Policy Rate Hikes Mean For The Rand Absa | Corporate and Investment Banking > Insights and Events > What Policy Rate Hikes Mean For The Rand SHARE FX Series | Episode 23 Central banks continue to increase policy rates. Find out what that means for the rand in this episode of Coffee Break Commerce. Absa Corporate Investment Bank · What Policy Rate Hikes Mean For The Rand Featured guest Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency ResearchAbsa Group Related Podcasts Episode 29 Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research Absa Group FX Series Interest rates: cuts, consequences and currency reactions After an interest rate cut in South Africa and a jumbo rate cut in the United States, what’s next for currencies like the rand? Find out in this episode of Coffee Break Commerce. Episode 28 Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research Absa Group FX Series Doctor Copper’s Foreign Exchange Prognosis The copper price is one of the best predictors of global economic and foreign exchange (forex, or FX) trends. In this episode of Coffee Break Commerce we explain why rand investors should pay closer attention to Doctor Copper. Episode 27 Mike Keenan Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research Absa Group FX Series Rands, Dollars, and Hamburgers What is the Big Mac Index, and what is it telling us about the value of the rand? We take a bite out of this foreign exchange (forex, or FX) yardstick in the latest episode of Coffee Break Commerce.