The JSE suffered its biggest intraday drop in almost two months and the rand snapped a five-day winning streak on Monday amid a global market sell-off sparked by concerns that a new strain of Covid-19 may worsen the spread of the coronavirus and lead to further lockdowns.
The rand was the third-worst performing emerging-market currency after the Russian rouble and Brazilian real, while the JSE slid along with equity markets across the world as a string of countries imposed travel bans on the UK due to the new virus strain prevalent there...
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