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Santander revealed that only 5,000 SA Rand (around £450) can be taken in and out of the country in cash, so people will need alternative means of making payments.

Credit cards typically incur a foreign exchange fee of 2.75% and a cash handing charge of around 1.5%, the group said.

This means that for every £2,025 that is withdrawn from ATM machines in South Africa, an additional £86 in fees will be paid.

Nici Audhlam-Gardiner, Director of Banking at Santander, said: “People should be aware that they can save themselves a lot of money if they have a debit card that allows free ATM access and no charges on debit card transactions worldwide.”

England played their last match on home soil before the World Cup against Mexico last night (May 24th).

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Concerns about finances in the Eurozone, a further sell-off of the euro, and worries about war on the Korean peninsula drove down stocks across Asia. Indices in China and Japan were down about 3%. Shares in London, Frankfurt, and Paris fell by about the same amount. JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) downgraded a number of Greek [...]

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Despite all of the progress we have made over the past 18 months, renewed concerns over the sustainability of the tepid economic recovery are rising. Concerns about Greece and then Portugal, followed by Germany’s ban on naked short-selling and euro concerns, have pushed the stock market down in recent days.

More have fallen into the worry camp, and when it comes to the stock market, this tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Adding fuel to the fire this week included a jump in initial jobless claims as well as an upward revision to those for the prior week as well as misses versus expectations for the Empire Manufacturing Index and for building permits data.

As I wrote last week, there are periods of time when we will take two steps forward and one step back.

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