{"id":280830,"date":"2026-02-08T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:41:11","slug":"inflation-hits-8-month-high-at-8-58-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280830\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation hits 8-month high at 8.58% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      The figure was slightly above 9% in May last year.    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      08 February, 2026, 04:10 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 08 February, 2026, 04:44 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna\/TBS Creative<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"451\/254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766628013_93_taka_2.png\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" alt=\"Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna\/TBS Creative\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna\/TBS Creative        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Inflation in Bangladesh went up for the third month in a row in January, with prices climbing to their highest level in eight months since May last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The overall inflation rate rose to 8.58% in January, up from 8.49% in December, 8.29% in November and 8.17% in September, according to data released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) today (8 February).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The figure was slightly above 9% in May last year.<\/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<p>Infograph: TBS <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"1386\/692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/inflation_bbs.jpg\" width=\"1386\" height=\"692\" alt=\"Infograph: TBS \" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Infograph: TBS <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The inflation rate was significantly higher at 9.94% in January last year.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">According to statistics, food inflation rose to 8.29% in January 2026, compared with 7.71% in December 2025 and 10.72% in January 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Meanwhile, non-food inflation stood at 8.81%, slightly down from 9.13% in December 2025 and 9.32% in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The figure was slightly above 9% in May last year. TBS Report 08 February, 2026, 04:10 pm Last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-280830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280830","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=280830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}