Premium: The “law of seven” is due in 2022 – so watch out, Rand bulls

Cycle followers will caution that this law of "seven" telegraphs another Rand crash in 2022. Something that would not be out of turn, anyway.
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Am indebted, once again, to Kevin Lings for today's idea. Among the weekly raft of graphs shared by Stanlib's chief economist is a bar chart of the Rand's annual performance against the US Dollar since 1960 – during which it weakened roughly two thirds of the time.

Lings put each year's performance into a 5% block. The graph above shows the zero to 5% depreciation category was most popular, occurring 15 times, or almost half of those years when the Rand lost ground to the Greenback.

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