n Personal Finance Newsletter - Interest rates and inflation - an outlook for 2006 : comment

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Extracted from text ... 10 January 2006 Moneyweb's PERSONAL FINANCE WHEN the South African Reserve Bank's monetary policy committee decided to leave interest rates unchanged in December 2005, many were unsurprised, given the spate of lower than expected inflation figures for October and a steady decline in oil prices from COMMENT Interest rates and inflation - an outlook for 2006 Moneyweb's Personal Finance gazes into its crystal ball and looks ahead to likely interest rate movements in 2006 By ANA MONTEIRO September 2005 highs. However, after months of rhetoric that made rates hikes in 2006 seem inevitable, the Reserve Bank's messages show that ..