{"id":88299,"date":"2024-05-22T02:16:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T06:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=88299"},"modified":"2024-05-22T02:15:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T06:15:25","slug":"uk-inflation-drops-to-2-3-in-april-nearing-bank-of-englands-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2024\/uk-inflation-drops-to-2-3-in-april-nearing-bank-of-englands-target.html","title":{"rendered":"UK inflation drops to 2.3% in April, nearing Bank of England\u2019s target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) U.K. inflation fell to 2.3% in April, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday, coming closer to the Bank of England\u2019s target rate even while missing expectations. That was down from a headline rate reading of 3.2% in March, but economists polled by Reuters had expected a steeper drop to 2.1%. Investors are keenly watching the print, after BOE policymakers indicated they would be willing to cut interest rates some time in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/05\/22\/uk-inflation-april-2024.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) U.K. inflation fell to 2.3% in April, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday, coming closer to the Bank of England\u2019s target rate even while missing expectations. That was down from a headline rate reading of 3.2% in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88300,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88299\/revisions\/88300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}