Shireen Darmalingam
Shireen Darmalingam is a Macroeconomics Analyst at Standard Bank Research. Her thematic research and insight provides valuable views on South African economic affairs. Shireen graduated from the University of Cape Town with an Honours degree in Business Science. She is currently enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for a Masters degree in Commerce with an economics major. Shireen joined Standard Bank in 2001.
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by Shireen Darmalingam, Walter de Wet, Penny Byrne and Zaakirah Ismail · Wed Oct 18 09:19:06 SAST 2017
Commodity prices tend to track the global growth cycle, and they are therefore holding up well while global growth picks up. The IMF has revised global growth by 0.1 pps …
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by Shireen Darmalingam, Walter de Wet, Penny Byrne and Zaakirah Ismail · Tue Oct 17 08:44:58 SAST 2017
The rand this past week is stronger due to the weaker dollar; it has now returned to our 12.50 to 13.50 trading range. However, the USDZAR is still above the …
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by Shireen Darmalingam, Walter de Wet, Penny Byrne and Zaakirah Ismail · Mon Oct 16 08:31:56 SAST 2017
*Chart of the day: US core inflation sticky since May 2017 When the Fed started the current hiking cycle in Dec 2015, core US inflation was trending upwards, and …
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by Shireen Darmalingam, Walter de Wet, Penny Byrne and Zaakirah Ismail · Fri Oct 13 08:28:42 SAST 2017
*Chart of the day: A look at the Turkey/SA spread The yield between SA’s 10-year USD bond and that of Turkey has been compressing since January. Then, the gap …