{"id":582254,"date":"2026-08-12T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582254\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:22:10","slug":"kenya-central-bank-holds-key-rate-growth-forecasts-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582254\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya central bank holds key rate, growth forecasts unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WOOUOIZQGRNUFLZVX6TQHONPMM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-643427\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/>A general view shows the Central Bank of Kenya headquarters building along Haile Selassie Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya November 28, 2018. REUTERS\/Njeri Mwangi<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NAIROBI (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kenya\u2019s central bank maintained its benchmark lending rate on Tuesday,\u00a0as expected, saying\u00a0its policy stance was appropriate though there was still a need to monitor changes in global oil prices and any second-round effects on inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A general view shows the Central Bank of Kenya headquarters building along Haile Selassie Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,35684,85,46],"class_list":["post-582254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-east-africa","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582254","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=582254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}