{"id":20503,"date":"2012-08-22T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2012-08-22T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:38:36","slug":"cpi-eases-to-4-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/20503\/cpi-eases-to-4-9\/","title":{"rendered":"CPI eases to 4.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer price inflation (CPI) eased further to 4.9 percent in July, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday (22 August 2012).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The official inflation rate (ie the percentage change in the CPI for all urban areas in July 2012 compared with that in July 2011) was 4.9 percent at July 2012,&#8221; the agency said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n<p>This rate was 0.6 percentage points lower than the corresponding annual rate of 5.5 percent in June.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation has been on a downward trend since April this year, when it reached 6.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/19364\/electricity-production-down-2-3-in-june-stats-sa\/\"><strong>Electricity production down 2.3% in June \u2013 Stats SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/19129\/sa-q2-unemployment-rate-24-9-vs-q1-25-2\/\"><strong>SA Q2 unemployment rate 24.9% vs Q1 25.2%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer price inflation (CPI) eased further to 4.9 percent in July, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,2829,3745,1809],"class_list":["post-20503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-cpi","tag-statistics-south-africa","tag-stats-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20509,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions\/20509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}