{"id":66028,"date":"2024-09-25T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=66028"},"modified":"2024-09-25T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:34:20","slug":"nigerias-central-bank-surprises-with-fifth-rate-hike-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/nigerias-central-bank-surprises-with-fifth-rate-hike-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s central bank surprises with fifth rate hike this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/4I35MD5LEBM5DNIQ2XEAZL4VJI.jpg\" alt=\"A view shows Nigeria's Central Bank headquarters in Abuja\" width=\"322\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s central bank unexpectedly raised its benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 27.25% on Tuesday in a unanimous decision to tame persistent inflationary pressures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/nigerias-central-bank-surprises-with-rate-hike-2725-2024-09-24\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigeria&#8217;s central bank unexpectedly raised its benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 27.25% on Tuesday in a unanimous decision to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Cardoso.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66030,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66028\/revisions\/66030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}