{"id":813911,"date":"2026-07-20T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:59:12","slug":"statistics-canada-set-to-report-june-inflation-figures-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813911\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada set to report June inflation figures \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Statistics Canada is set to publish new inflation data for June this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters poll of economists expects inflation fell to 2.9 per cent last month from a recent high of 3.2 per cent in May.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were paying less for gasoline last month amid prospects of peace between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a57b3d30108f77f3af1d67fjpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"7306\" data-pswp-height=\"4871\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a57b3d30108f77f3af1d67fjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"A customer shops for produce at a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., Friday, June 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA customer shops for produce at a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., Friday, June 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young<\/p>\n<p>Those costs have jumped up again in recent weeks but economists say June\u2019s temporary relief should be enough to drag inflation lower.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Canada warned last week that the outlook for inflation is still cloudy thanks in large part to uncertainty over the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newslettericons-business.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Business Weekly\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady on July 15 as it looks for signs inflationary pressures from the Iran war could start spreading beyond the gas pumps and grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 Statistics Canada is set to publish new inflation data for June this morning. A Reuters poll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-813911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}