South Africa's rand steady, stocks set to open higher

South Africa's rand steadied early on Thursday as upbeat U.S. economic data and expectations that the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates subdued global fears over the impact of Britain's eventual departure from the European Union. Minutes of the Federal Reserve's June policy meeting released on Wednesday showed that policymakers had decided to keep interest rate hikes on hold as they assessed the impact of Brexit. "A strong service sector ISM (Institute for Supply Management) figure