Foreign Investors Are Losing Interest in South African Bonds

  • Share of government securities fell to eight-year low in July
  • Credit downgrades have moved country of investors’ radar: RMB

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Foreign investors continue to desert South Africa’s bond market in July, with their share of government debt falling to the lowest level in more than eight years.