{"id":26509,"date":"2018-03-09T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fdcng.com\/?p=26509"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:55:41","slug":"fdc-economic-bulletin-march-06-2018-re-headline-inflation-to-dip-to-14-75-in-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/fdc-economic-bulletin-march-06-2018-re-headline-inflation-to-dip-to-14-75-in-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"FDC ECONOMIC BULLETIN &#8211; MARCH 06, 2018 (Re &#8211; Headline Inflation to dip to 14.75% in February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"gem-button-container gem-button-position-inline\"><a class=\"gem-button gem-button-size-small gem-button-style-flat gem-button-text-weight-normal\" style=\"border-radius: 3px;background-color: #ddbd89;color: #ffffff;\" onmouseleave=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#ddbd89';this.style.color='#ffffff';\" onmouseenter=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#ddccaa';this.style.color='#000000';\" href=\"http:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FDC-Economic-Bulletin-March-06-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div> [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Subscriber,<\/p>\n<p>Headline inflation is expected to continue its downward trend to 14.75% in February. This represents a steeper rate of decline from January\u2019s deceleration of 0.24%. In contrast, month-on-month inflation in February is expected to increase to 1.01% (12.82% annualized) from 0.80% (10.03% annualized), driven largely by increased prices in the food basket.<\/p>\n<p>The anticipated decline in inflation together with the weak growth recorded in 2017 (0.8%), increases the possibility of the adoption of an accommodative monetary policy stance (i.e. reducing interest rates).<\/p>\n<p>In the attached\u00a0bulletin, the FDC Think-Tank analyses inflationary pressures in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Do enjoy your read&#8230;.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Subscriber, Headline inflation is expected to continue its downward trend to 14.75% in February. This represents a steeper rate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26510,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions\/26510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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