{"id":20756,"date":"2025-12-09T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-central-bank-lowers-main-lending-rate-by-25-basis-points\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:01","slug":"kenyas-central-bank-lowers-main-lending-rate-by-25-basis-points","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-central-bank-lowers-main-lending-rate-by-25-basis-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s central bank lowers main lending rate by 25 basis points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s central bank reduced its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 9.0% this Tuesday, saying there was scope for further easing to stimulate lending by banks to the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was the bank&#8217;s ninth rate cut in a row.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will augment the previous policy actions aimed at supporting economic activity, while ensuring inflationary expectations remain firmly anchored, and the exchange rate remains stable,&#8221; the Central Bank of Kenya said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s inflation was at 4.5% year-on-year in November, slightly lower than the previous month&#8217;s reading of 4.6% and within the 2.5%-7.5% target band.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20757,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-20756","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya's central bank reduced its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 9.0%","published_date":"2025-12-09 16:17:38","news_description":"Kenya's central bank reduced its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 9.0%","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24684,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20756\/revisions\/24684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}