{"id":21878,"date":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21878\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:53:09","slug":"russia-opts-for-deeper-key-rate-cut-to-18-as-economy-cools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21878\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Opts for Deeper Key Rate Cut to 18% as Economy Cools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Russia\u2019s central bank slashed its key interest rate to the lowest level in nearly a year amid slowing inflation and worries the country\u2019s economy could tip into recession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Bank of Russia reduced the benchmark rate by 200 basis points to 18% on Friday. All economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected a cut, and seven out of 11 anticipated today\u2019s move. One analyst expected an even bigger decrease, while three forecast the rate to be brought down by 100-150 basis points.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s central bank slashed its key interest rate to the lowest level in nearly a year amid slowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,21258,5693,164,22174,5465,5626,18460,1788,22175,2014,2016],"class_list":{"0":"post-21878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economic-sanctions","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-elvira-s-nabiullina","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-interest-rates","17":"tag-july-sarl-caen","18":"tag-labor","19":"tag-maxim-reshetnikov","20":"tag-moscow","21":"tag-russia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878","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=21878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}