{"id":135502,"date":"2023-07-07T17:56:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135502"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:56:45","slug":"sri-lankan-central-bank-expects-inflation-to-drop-to-7pc-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/07\/sri-lankan-central-bank-expects-inflation-to-drop-to-7pc-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan central bank expects inflation to drop to 7pc in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Pakistan Observer<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan inflation will drop to 7 percent in July, an official of the country\u2019s central bank told journalists in Colombo on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central bank\u2019s Director of Economic Research P. K. G. Harischandra, while addressing a press conference, said the headline inflation will stabilize around mid-single-digit level in the medium term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harischandra said that the core inflation for June was reported at 9.8 percent and this is the first time inflation has gone below 10 percent in a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2022, Sri Lanka\u2019s headline, core, food and non-food inflation were 69.8 percent, 50.2 percent, 94.9 percent and 57.6 percent, respectively.\u2014Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Pakistan Observer Sri Lankan inflation will drop to 7 percent in July, an official of the country\u2019s central bank told journalists in Colombo on Thursday. The central bank\u2019s Director of Economic Research P. K. G. Harischandra, while addressing a press conference, said the headline inflation will stabilize around mid-single-digit level in the medium term. [&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-135502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135502","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=135502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}