{"id":110429,"date":"2018-03-13T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=110429"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:02:15","slug":"inflation-on-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/13\/inflation-on-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation on target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Banco-Central-logo-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-107286\" \/>The Consumer Prices\u2019 Index dropped in February 2018 by 0.11% compared to January meaning year to date inflation stands at 0.18%, according to the Central Bank. Inflation for the past 12 months, February 2017 to February 2018 stands at 3.32% within the range set by the Monetary Program of 4.0 % \u00b1 1.0 %.  <\/p>\n<p>The reduction in the inflation rate in the month was attributed to the lower prices reported in the Food and Non Alcoholic Beverages category, which decreased by 0.64%.  Also, the Housing Sector prices which went down by 0.63%. The reduction in these categories counteracted the increases in Transport (0.27 %), Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco (1.08 %), Health (0.40 %), Hotels and Restaurants (0.22%), among others.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/publicaciones_economicas\/cipcm\/cipcm2018-02.pdf<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/notas_bc\/2018\/03\/10\/2940\/bcrd-informa-que-la-inflacin-del-mes-de-febrero-fue-de-011<\/p>\n<p>13 March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Prices\u2019 Index dropped in February 2018 by 0.11% compared to January meaning year to date inflation stands at 0.18%, according to the Central Bank. Inflation for the past 12 months, February 2017 to February 2018 stands at 3.32% within the range set by the Monetary Program of 4.0 % \u00b1 1.0 %. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/13\/inflation-on-target\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}