{"id":63179,"date":"2014-07-17T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T13:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=63179"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T08:48:57","slug":"sarb-lifts-repo-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/63179\/sarb-lifts-repo-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"SARB hikes repo rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP1\">The repo rate will increase by 25 basis points to 5.75%, SA Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The economic growth outlook has deteriorated since the last monetary policy committee meeting, Marcus told reporters in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The prime lending rate rises to 9.25%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">In January, the committee increased the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.5%. In March and May the repo rate remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"BodyP\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa\u2019s economy slows to a crawl\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/57497\/south-africas-economy-slows-to-a-crawl\/\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s economy slows to a crawl<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA economy heading for recession: economist\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/60185\/sa-economy-heading-for-recession-economist\/\"><strong>SA economy heading for recession: economist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The repo rate will increase by 25 basis points to 5.75%, SA Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[25,1492,5723,3619],"class_list":["post-63179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-active","tag-gill-marcus","tag-money","tag-sarb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179","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=63179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63187,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions\/63187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}