{"id":822,"date":"2019-05-20T19:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=822"},"modified":"2019-05-20T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:28:36","slug":"bank-of-israel-leaves-interest-rate-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2019\/05\/20\/bank-of-israel-leaves-interest-rate-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Israel Leaves Interest Rate Unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"Bank of Israel\" class=\"wp-image-823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-2.png 663w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-2-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-2-100x70.png 100w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-2-603x420.png 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><figcaption>Bank of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bank of Israel\u2019s Monetary Committee has decided to keep the prime interest rate at .25%.&nbsp; Initially, the expectation was that the rate would be raised. However, the report that inflation in April was on 0.3%, i.e., lower than predicted, combined with the recent strengthening of the Shekel \u2014 especially against the Euro \u2014 convinced the committee that a rise in the interest rate was not justified at this point in time. &nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Israel\u2019s Monetary Committee has decided to keep the prime interest rate at .25%.&nbsp; Initially, the expectation was that the rate would be raised. However, the report that inflation in April was on 0.3%, i.e., lower than predicted, combined with the recent strengthening of the Shekel \u2014 especially against the Euro \u2014 convinced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}