{"id":2442,"date":"2023-05-12T19:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2023-05-12T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:15:51","slug":"zimbabwe-backs-new-digital-money-with-140-kilograms-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Backs New Digital Money With 140 Kilograms of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"postie-post\">\u30fbGold-backed digital money part of efforts to support currency<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"postie-post\">\u30fbIMF has warned the policy may lead to depletion of reserves<\/h5>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">By Ray Ndlovu May 12, 2023 at 4:28 PM GMT+4<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">Zimbabwe used nearly 140 kilograms of gold reserves to back the first sale of its digital money.<br \/>\nThe central bank received 135 applications valued at 14 billion Zimbabwe dollar ($12 million) to purchase the gold-backed digital tokens, it said in an emailed statement on Friday. It plans a second auction on May 18.<br \/>\nThe southern African nation has turned to the digital money to help ease soaring demand for US dollars in its economy as the value of the local currency plunged. The move was criticized by the International Monetary Fund, which urged the government to rather liberalize its foreign-exchange rate than risk depleting its reserves.<br \/>\nThe tokens are just one of the measures introduced to shore up a currency that\u2019s weakened more than 40% against the US dollar this year, and amid soaring inflation. It\u2019s also released gold coins and on Thursday warned that short-term interest rates may have to rise. The central bank\u2019s benchmark rate at 140% is the highest in world.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30fbGold-backed digital money part of efforts to support currency \u30fbIMF has warned the policy may lead to depletion of reserves By Ray Ndlovu May 12, 2023 at 4:28 PM GMT+4 Zimbabwe used nearly 140 kilograms of gold reserves to back the first sale of its digital money. The central bank received 135 applications valued at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}