{"id":204035,"date":"2025-08-05T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cuts-rates-by-most-on-record-as-inflation-subsides\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:51:57","slug":"ghana-cuts-rates-by-most-on-record-as-inflation-subsides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cuts-rates-by-most-on-record-as-inflation-subsides\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Cuts Rates By Most On Record As Inflation Subsides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s central bank slashed its benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 25%, marking the largest rate cut in the Bank of Ghana&#8217;s history<\/li>\n<li>The Monetary Policy Committee decision reflects growing confidence in the country&#8217;s rapid disinflation trend<\/li>\n<li>Inflation fell sharply to 13.7% in June, down from 18.4% in May and the lowest level since December 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Ghana&#8217;s central bank slashed its benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 25%, marking the largest rate cut in the Bank of Ghana&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508050287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s central bank slashed its benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 25%, marking the largest rate cut in the Bank of Ghana&#8217;s history The Monetary Policy Committee decision reflects growing confidence in the country&#8217;s rapid disinflation trend Inflation fell sharply to 13.7% in June, down from 18.4% in May and the lowest level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7210,4508,4509,6265,257,12850,5267,254,51094],"class_list":["post-204035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cuts","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-rates","tag-record","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subsides"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}