{"id":16732,"date":"2026-09-23T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:35:59","slug":"south-african-inflation-picks-up-slightly-ahead-of-rate-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=16732","title":{"rendered":"South African inflation picks up slightly ahead of rate decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s annual inflation rate rose slightly less than expected ahead of a widely expected interest-rate hike.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices increased to 4.4% in August from 4.3% a month earlier, Statistics South Africa said in a statement on its website on Wednesday. The median estimate of 18 economists in a Bloomberg survey was 4.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Most economists in a separate Bloomberg poll see the central bank increasing interest rates to 7.25% from 7% when Governor Lesetja Kganyago delivers the decision at around 3 p.m. in Pretoria, in response to fresh price pressures from the Iran and Ukraine wars.<\/p>\n<p>The conflicts continue to restrict supplies of energy, grain and fertiliser. Brent crude is trading around $99 per barrel, compared with an average price of around $85 a barrel when South Africa last deliberated on interest rates. Separately, El Ni\u00f1o weather patterns could hurt agricultural production, impacting food inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #South #African #inflation #picks #slightly #ahead #rate #decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s annual inflation rate rose slightly less than expected ahead of a widely expected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[323,839,3341,176,1113,126,15615,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}