{"id":42012,"date":"2026-08-10T10:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42012"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:25:45","slug":"egypts-annual-urban-consumer-price-inflation-quickens-to-14-9-in-july","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/egypts-annual-urban-consumer-price-inflation-quickens-to-14-9-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s annual urban consumer price inflation quickens to 14.9% in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Egypt&#8217;s \u200bannual urban consumer inflation accelerated \u200cto 14.9% in July from 14.3% in June, state \u200bstatistics agency Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\"> Statistics \u200bsaid<\/span>\u00a0on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nationwide annual inflation \u2060rose 13.0% in July \u200bcompared with July 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Urban food \u200band beverage prices fell 0.6% month-on-month in July but were \u200b8.0% higher than a \u200byear earlier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nationwide, the all-items index rose \u200c0.1% \u2060from June, with food and beverages slipping 0.1% month-on-month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rural annual inflation reached \u200b11.2% in \u200bJuly, \u2060with rural food and beverages up 7.8% \u200byear-on-year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thirteen analysts polled by<em> \u200b<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">Reuters<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2060between July 29 and August 6 had forecast \u2060a \u200brange of 14.6% \u200bto 16.3%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42013,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-42012","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Egypt's \u200bannual urban consumer inflation accelerated \u200c","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42012","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\/42012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42014,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42012\/revisions\/42014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}