{"id":243,"date":"2008-08-13T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-08-13T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T14:35:07","slug":"spanish-inflation-at-15-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/13\/spanish-inflation-at-15-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish inflation at 15-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><strong>Prices in Spain rose at their fastest annual rate for 15 years in July, driven by rising food and fuel costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The annual inflation rate climbed to 5.3% in July, up from 5% in June.<\/p>\n<p>Transport costs were 10.6% higher than a year earlier, the National Institute of Statistics said, with food prices up 7% compared with July 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish inflation is above the eurozone average of 4.1%, but recent falls in the price of crude oil could bring the rate down. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s economy minister Pedro Solbes said the rate of inflation could drop to about 4% by the end of the year as crude prices have declined.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has interrupted his holidays to attend an emergency meeting later with Mr Solbes and other cabinet members to discuss the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish newspaper reports suggest the meeting will discuss additional economic stimulus measures to add to the 10bn-euro ($14.9bn; \u00a37.9bn) package announced earlier this year to stimulate consumer demand, the housing market and small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices in Spain rose at their fastest annual rate for 15 years in July, driven by rising food and fuel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}