{"id":40172,"date":"2001-05-23T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-05-23T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/bank-interest-rates-decline\/"},"modified":"2001-05-23T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-05-23T01:43:56","slug":"bank-interest-rates-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/05\/23\/bank-interest-rates-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank interest rates decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Caribe newspaper reports that local interest rates have been declining. During the first three months of the year interest rates went from 30.33% average in December to 29.14 in March. They dropped to 26.8% in April and could end this month at an average of 25%, with the prime rate hovering at 24%. This is up from a 22.57% interest rate low in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Caribe newspaper reports that local interest rates have been declining. During the first three months of the year interest rates went from 30.33% average in December to 29.14 in March. They dropped to 26.8% in April and could end this month at an average of 25%, with the prime rate hovering at 24%. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/05\/23\/bank-interest-rates-decline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40172"}],"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=40172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}