World leaders had been fast to reward Donald Trump after he claimed a shocking US election victory over Kamala Harris on Wednesday.

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Financial markets additionally rose – as did the price of Bitcoin and several other different cryptocurrencies.

The desk under depicts the rand change fee towards five different main currencies.

They are the greenback (US greenback), pound, euro, Australian greenback (A$) and New Zealand greenback (NZ$).