{"id":176397,"date":"2017-05-24T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=176397"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T08:10:44","slug":"inflation-drops-to-5-3-for-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/176397\/inflation-drops-to-5-3-for-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation drops to 5.3% for April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual consumer price inflation was 5.3% in April 2017, down from 6.1% in March 2017, Stats SA announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer price index increased by 0.1% month-on-month in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Food and non-alcoholic beverages decreased from 1.5 percentage points in March to 1.1 percentage points in April. The index increased by 6.7% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Transport decreased from 1.1 percentage points in March to 0.7 of a percentage point in April. The index increased by 4.6% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Miscellaneous goods and services decreased from 1.2 percentage points in March to 1.1 percentage points in April. The index increased by 7.3% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the CPI for goods increased by 5.3% year-on-year (down from 7.0% in March), and the CPI for services increased by 5.5% year-on-year (up from 5.4% in March).<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CPI.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-176403\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CPI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CPI.png 1008w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CPI-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CPI-768x675.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CPI-640x563.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Rand eyes R13 to the dollar ahead of CPI data\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/176377\/rand-eyes-r13-to-the-dollar-ahead-of-cpi-data\/\">Rand eyes R13 to the dollar ahead of CPI data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual consumer price inflation was 5.3% in April 2017, down from 6.1% in March 2017, Stats SA announced on Wednesday. The consumer price index increased by 0.1% month-on-month in April 2017. Food and non-alcoholic beverages decreased from 1.5 percentage points in March to 1.1 percentage points in April. The index increased by 6.7% year-on-year. Transport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":129870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-176397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176405,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176397\/revisions\/176405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}