{"id":224788,"date":"2026-02-23T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-cuts-policy-rate-to-13-5-percent-as-inflation-falls-below-10-percent\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:54:50","slug":"zambia-cuts-policy-rate-to-13-5-percent-as-inflation-falls-below-10-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-cuts-policy-rate-to-13-5-percent-as-inflation-falls-below-10-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Cuts Policy Rate to 13.5 Percent As Inflation Falls Below 10 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Zambia&#8217;s central bank lowered its policy rate by 75 basis points to 13.50%, marking a second consecutive cut and a larger move than analysts expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The decision reflects easing inflationary pressure at the start of the year. Annual inflation fell below 10% in January, raising expectations that it could return to the official 6% to 8% target range in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Policymakers cited appreciation of the kwacha and foreign-currency inflows from the mining sector as key drivers of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia&#8217;s central bank lowered its policy rate by 75 basis points to 13.50%, marking a second consecutive cut and a larger move than analysts expected. The decision reflects easing inflationary pressure at the start of the year. Annual inflation fell below 10% in January, raising expectations that it could return to the official 6% to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224789,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,7210,7668,6265,257,6720,6470,7170,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-224788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cuts","tag-falls","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-policy","tag-rate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/224788","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}