{"id":255631,"date":"2026-01-24T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/255631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:53:10","slug":"is-another-interest-rate-hike-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/255631\/","title":{"rendered":"Is another interest rate hike on the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a January surprise for economists, with an unexpected drop in the country&#8217;s unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures released by the ABS this week, the unemployment rate fell from 4.3 per cent to 4.1 per cent in December.<\/p>\n<p>But with this comes some concern that the economy is running a little too hot. Could a rise in interest rates be on the cards?<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Luci Ellis, Westpac chief economist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s been a January surprise for economists, with an unexpected drop in the country&#8217;s unemployment rate. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[345,114,184,85,932,4486,46,265,4864,135529,5995,36242,2958,9560],"class_list":["post-255631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-israel","tag-jobs","tag-labour-market","tag-luci-ellis","tag-rba","tag-reserve-bank","tag-unemployment","tag-westpac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}