{"id":125790,"date":"2025-09-07T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125790\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:41:12","slug":"inflation-eases-to-3-year-low-in-august-at-8-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125790\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation eases to 3-year low in August at 8.29%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Food inflation inched up to 7.6% from 7.56% in July, while non-food inflation fell to 8.9% from 9.38%    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      07 September, 2025, 02:25 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 07 September, 2025, 05:21 pm    <\/p>\n<p>Infographics: TBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"822\/844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed.png\" width=\"822\" height=\"844\" alt=\"Infographics: TBS\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Infographics: TBS<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Inflation in Bangladesh slowed last month to its lowest level in over three years, according to data released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) today (7 September).\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Overall consumer prices rose 8.29% in August from a year earlier, down from 8.55% in July, marking the smallest point-to-point increase since August 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Food inflation inched up to 7.6% from 7.56% in July, while non-food inflation fell sharply to 8.9% from 9.38%.<\/p>\n<p>Infographics: TBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"772\/858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.png\" width=\"772\" height=\"858\" alt=\"Infographics: TBS\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Infographics: TBS<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Meanwhile, wage growth for low-paid skilled and unskilled labourers edged down to 8.15%, extending a 43-month streak in which wages have lagged behind inflation, exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis for low-income households.\n<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the central bank has set a target of containing inflation within a 6.5% ceiling for FY26.<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food inflation inched up to 7.6% from 7.56% in July, while non-food inflation fell to 8.9% from 9.38%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-125790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}