{"id":167610,"date":"2025-08-08T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167610"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:19:01","slug":"sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167610","title":{"rendered":"SA Reserve Bank cuts repo rate by 25 basis points to 7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Relief for indebted consumers. The South African Reserve Bank has cut interest rates by another 25 basis points. This brings the country&#8217;s repo rate down to 7%, and the prime lending rate to 10.5%. It&#8217;s the first time the repo rate is at 7%, since the Covid-19 pandemic. The unexpected decision was taken<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business-top-stories\/sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-25-basis-points-7\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Relief for indebted consumers. The South African Reserve Bank has cut interest rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7-300x246.webp",300,246,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167610-sa-reserve-bank-cuts-repo-rate-by-25-basis-points-to-7.webp",480,393,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}