South Africa's rand falls as Ukraine crisis weigh "Yesterday, the price action suggested the markets had lost faith in their short USD positions, this ahead of various US data releases today." South African-focused investors will also look forward to Moody's review of the country's sovereign credit ratings, scheduled for Friday. Moody's has South Africa's long-term foreign-currency rating on Ba2 it has a negative outlook. Its long-term local-currency rating is also at Ba2. In fixed income, the yield on the benchmark 2030 government bond was up 0.3 basis points to 9.63%.