{"id":43944,"date":"2026-08-27T17:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43944"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:40:28","slug":"ppi-falls-to-5-7-due-to-lower-fuel-prices-stats-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ppi-falls-to-5-7-due-to-lower-fuel-prices-stats-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"PPI falls to 5.7% due to lower fuel prices: Stats SA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Producer Price Inflation (PPI) has fallen sharply for a second straight month in July, reflecting lower fuel prices. Statistics South Africa\u2019s (Stats SA) Producer Price Index dropped to 5.7% year-on-year from 7.5% in June.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The biggest driver of reduced costs at the factory gate was lower diesel and petrol prices following easing tensions, at the time, in the United States-Iran war.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">PPI is considered an indication of where consumer inflation may head in the next six months.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe must all give credit to oil prices, as we have seen that the contribution, when it comes to Diesel in June, I mean, it increased by almost 53%. Now it only increased, you know, by almost just around 29%. The same applies to petrol as well. In June, we\u2019re talking 36%. Now, we are talking only 20%. And even if you look into the transport cost, that is the equipment thereof, also down by 1.4%. All because of oil prices that have been going down,\u201d says Chief Investment Officer at Makwe Fund Managers Makwe Masilela.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14477,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-43944","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"PPI is considered an indication of where consumer inflation may head in the next six months.","published_date":"","news_description":"PPI is considered an indication of where consumer inflation may head in the next six months.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43944","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\/43944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43945,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43944\/revisions\/43945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}