{"id":129666,"date":"2022-11-02T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129666"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:24:06","slug":"sri-lanka-inflation-slows-for-first-time-in-year-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/02\/sri-lanka-inflation-slows-for-first-time-in-year-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka inflation slows for first time in year in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Nov 1 (Bloomberg) \u2013&nbsp;Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation slowed in October for the first time in a year as shortages of food and fuel eased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consumer price index in the capital Colombo cooled to 66% from a year ago, the statistics department said in a statement Monday. That\u2019s down from 69.8% in September and a median of 68.5% in a Bloomberg survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transport costs stood at 150.4% and food prices came in at 94.9%, the data showed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Nov 1 (Bloomberg) \u2013&nbsp;Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation slowed in October for the first time in a year as shortages of food and fuel eased. The consumer price index in the capital Colombo cooled to 66% from a year ago, the statistics department said in a statement Monday. That\u2019s down from 69.8% in September and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}